Daily Republican., 1888-10-16


Specimen of home industry.
Second-The Irish In the colonies
: like their brave progenitors, who bal
tied by the side OF Washington, in an
: other hemisphere and in another coun
try, have also manly and successful,
grappled with this deadliest power
this latest specimen OF British cOvet
business. They have not only scotchet
the snake, but killed him, and 1t Is
: futile attempt on the part of your co
temporary, Every Evening. to seek Il
, tgalnsay thls fact by quoting largely
from an article in an EAglish free tradt
Iprint, purporting 10 show that thu
commerclal superiority Of New South
Wales over her sister colony, Victoria,
arises from the fact that the former Il
a free trade State and the latter is not,
Now, your ootemporary il either igno.
raAtly or wiltullY misled. There is nc
free trade colony In Australia, and Il
be allows himself to be deceived by
free trade sophistry, and tries TO per
suade his readers that all English
geese are swans, 1t is high time fol
the latter TO present him with a new
gazetteer. New South Wales is wha;
Ia known as a fair trade colony, and
enjoys all the protection 1t requires
under that name, and it is TO enjoy
similar commercial blessings that our
friends in Erin are kicking so vigor-
ously against free trade.
Third--lt now remains with the
Irish in the States to give a practical
and crushing answer TO these fallacioua
sophis.icators and their American abet.
tors. The eyes of friends and foes, at
home and abroad, are eagerly and
anxiously scanning their political
books. Their verdict next month will
call forth shout of joy from their
harrassed friends, or yell of vindictive
triumph from their unrelenting enc
miles. The great commercial Jumbo
is coming; the political Barnums are
shouting, make way; let him in;
England Is too small for him, and Ire
land has been picked barer'
Free trade is on its trial, and Irish
Americans are on the jury. The bill
of indictment has been handed in, and
the issue lies in their hands. "Shall
this foul offspring Of British monopoly,
(which her own colonies have kicked
tout of doors, be permitted to roost in
the fair land of Columbia, to lay her
ieggs in another birds nest, and then,
cuckoo-like, turn round and throttle
the nestlinRs of her who foOlishly af-
forded them shelter7"
The clergy-God bless theml tell us
and well would it be with us, II we
paid more attention to their advice
than we do, not to put our trust in
princes, whether they be known among
the sons of men as presidents, govern
Ors Ut senators. With all due respect
TO the reverned gentlemen, our sun
crowned ruler" may go harpooning
In his ten thousand dollar fishing boots
among the Blue Noses, but he will
never spear an Irish vote in the wa
tiers of the st. Lawrence. Our biggest
of governors may fill If 1t pleases him
Tammany Hall with his latest variety
of "Irlsh peaches, but he will only find
glut in the political fruit-market next
November. Our decent neighbour
his bosom friend, the Senator from
New Jersey-with his four and twenty
ancestral pipers, may dance an IRISH"
Tullschgoram in tho Academy of
Music and tickle the Philadelphian de-
voices of Terpslchore with his political
outres, but he has yet to answer why
he did not let the musquitos loose, to
tickle the English free-traders when
they shut down the American furna.
ces, and drove the chain trade out OF
Jersey City.
Uarfly o,r na,,oorogo bo.,aa - =
pose with such unreasonable effron-
terry, as the Legitimate successors OF
Washington and Jefferson, evidently
imagine that there is q wonderful
amount of green in Psddy's eye, or
else believe that an lrishman carries
the heart Of q sparrow and not that of
a man, when they thus naively ask
him, with pathos which is almost
patriotic in its knell, to permit them to !
continue to guide the destinies OF this
greatest nation of modern times, and
to conduct her finances for the future
in harmony with the teachings of free
trade, and the axioms of the Golden /
Club.
But we poor bog-trotters are not
such qusches to stand up as in the
days OF Interpreters and bum. bailiffs,
and thank their honors for the honor /
OF being shaved with tne thin edge of
the free trade wedge; 80 forgetful as
not to recall to mind the numerous and
inestimRble blessings which our old
friend, in his new transatlantic garb,
has already conferred with no niggard
hand upon our suffering fatherland. So
purblind as not to see-despite our
greenuess, through the flimsY sophis-
try of CleVeland's mighty prophet
Henry George, nor yet so unsophisti.
Gated, as to be deluded by the silly
doctrine of that champion of anarchy
McGlynn. Such prophets
VIC disaVow, such priests we shun.
And as respects those political bug-I
bears, which 60 vex the hearts of our
Democratic friends-war taxes, war
tariffs, and their concomitants, we
leave in the care and keeping of the
great Republican psrty-that party
Which brought suicidal rebellion to a
successful end. And we will once
more-steadily and unfinchingly,
trust that party-the real successors of
Lincoln, and not those who are suici.
daily coquetting with Lincoln's ene-
mics, to bring. the after-results of Sc.
dition to similar successful ending.
In fine, this spec span, brand new
free trade foot ball which our political
du3es are now kicking so high, and so
gleeiully in the presidential game, Ia ,
nothing more-nothing less, than
bag of wind-all wind wind behind /
and before, and foul wind too!
Asking you Mr. Editor kindly to ac-