Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-31
HE rs ALSO AN FRESHMAN
HUT DIFFERS MATERIALLY IN OPIN-
ION WITH Err. BERRY.

An Anaconda Democrat Raps Mr.. Berry
Over Knuckles and Reads Him 2
Lesson ON the Necessities of Being
Truthful-The Evils of Prejudice.
ANACONDA, October 27, 1888. ITO
the Editor of The Miner.l-In the
Inter Mountain of the t there
appears a letter over the name OF Thomas
E. Berry which reminds me OF the following:
"a mountain may bring forth a mouse,
with many a sigh and groan, SIR"
Mr.. Berry in a column and a hall OF rant
inmbles up free trade, what he does not
know OF Irish history, his admiration OF
Paddy Ford, and his ignorance OF Ameri-
can politics. Had he given his ideas 80 the
public while fresh instead of having them
worked over in the Inter Mountain office,
from the 10th till the 26th, the
point he designed to illustrate might nave
been apparent. 1t appears that the cause
of the gentleman's choleric effusion was not
Sam Words remarks against Mr.. Carter,
nor whether Mr.. Clark's or Mr.. Carriers
election would be better calculated to
further the interests of Montana or her
people, but simply because Mr.. Word either
Intentionally, or otherwise, m~isquoted
John Mitcl.el ii American Irish or native
Irish, are not so much interested IN irish
history either of the seventh or seyenteenth
centuries as they are in the history OF the
United States in the nineteenth century.
The questions OF the day are not whether
Mr.. Word misquoted John Mitchell or
whether or not (using Mr.. Berry's wordsl
sMr. Word is qualified to teach me and
other American citizens what meaning was
attached to free trade in Irish history. Mr..
Berry further showed his verdancy by using
race preiudiees ON the contest, and calls on
the Irish race to forget all other questions
and vote against Mr.. Clark because, for
sooth, his (Berry's) feelings have been in
iured by Mr.. Clark's reference to Mr.. Patrick
Ford.
The questions which confront US to-day
are whether we are to foster an aristocracy
by maintaining a tariff for their special
benefit and at the expense OF every work
ing man, or whether the tariff shall he re-
duc2d to a point to meet the expenses OF
the government and incidentally protect
alike employer and employed.
Shame on any foreign born citizen who
will join hands with any party to build up
an aristocracy in free America, and this is,
and has been, the aim Of the Republican
party, and the object OF it's legislations.
Look at the manufacturing districts OF
New England where the w%orkingman should
bask in the sunshine of protection, and
what is his condition? Forced to it by the
miserable pittance doled out by the pro-
tected employers, mothers have to farm
out their newborn infants at SO much per
week in order to earn enough to keep soul
and body together.
The advocates of protection have the
genuine article and the counterfeit. The
genuine, or direct protection, whereby the
manufacturer can calculates given rate per
cent. profit is reserved for himself, while
the counterfeit incidental protection, and
always an unknown quantity governed by
the generosity OF the employer, is dedicated
TO the workingman. Capital is the child of
with the husks while capital fattens on the
corn of protection.
Evidently Mr.. Berry does not know OF
what he writes when he charges Mr.. Clark
with Knownothingism, as Democracy is
and always has been the bitterest enemy
of the Knownothing doctrine, while the
Republicans are the direct !ineal descend
ants OF, and only differing in name from
the Knownothing party.
|, too, have the honor OF being an Irish
man, and am proud of the many names OF
countrymen renowned in the pages of
history, but when | see men who fled from
the tyranny of British aristocracy working
with and for an American moneyocracy, |
am led to believe they have sold their con-
v~ictions for a valuable consideration.
DEMOCRAT.