Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-01
The Impairment Sackyille West Cen
Sured by the Hon. James G.
Blaine.
Names Orator Warns Irish Ameri
cans of England'S De-
structiye Designs.
Grand Showing of Projections Ben
efits-Gr0ans for President
Cleveland.
Mr. Blaine's Sneech

Nh Chairman:-I speak tonight to
men OF Irish birth, but not in relation to
their connection with the British EN-
plre. speak to them in relation to their
citizenship to the great American Re.
public lapplausel, and of the duties they
oye and TO the policies they should pur-
sue; and gather the strongest lesson for
an Irishman in America is TO be found in
his experience in his native land The
fairest and almost the richest portion of
all Europe. destined to poverty and to
suffering. aud to the exile of millions of
her children, because OF misgovernment
destined primarily TO utter financial
ruin, because her people we're not allowed
to adopt for her own use aad her own ad-
vantage, the principle of protection, for
which all Irishmen SHOULD struggle in
America. [Cheers.] So great is the
agricultural worth of Ireland, that only
forty years ago she shipped e greater
amount of produce across the channel to
England, than the United States export
ed TO all countries-greater than the en-
pire of Russia sent to the other countries
of Europe, and with all this, where is Ire
land to-day? She shares the fate of all
countries purely agricultural. She shares
the fate, that would in large degree
overtake the United States if the free
trader should have his way and reduce Us
to an agricultural people. Applause
And yet tonight the fear is, that ma
jority of the Irish-American voters will
cast their ballots on the 9Th day of
November as the present government OF
England would desire them to cast it
Cries of no, no. 1 wish you could make
that 'No' a large majority of the Irish
vote of the United States. For the past
four months the democrats have been
denying aud the republicans have been
affirming, that the first and last and
CONSTANT WISH OF ENGLAND
was that Mr.. Cleveland's administration
should be sustained by the whole force
| and effect of English public opinion
And just when thsy had begun TO make an
expression andsan impression upon the
American people that such might not be
the fact, we have the letter of The British
minister TO Washington himself Tgroans
urging the re election of Mr.. Cleveland
And you can never interpret letter until
you know the letter that called it forth
To get the whole gist and meaning of 6
| correspondence, you must have both sides
Of it, and this letter from a British min
lister was called forth by letter from
California, written by native of Eng
land.
Mr.. Blame then read the letter in which
the writer states to Mr.. Sackville- Wes
that his faith has been shaken by Presi
dent Ceveland's administration, enc
writes TO the British minister to dissolve
his doubt, and Mr.. West says to the Cali
fOrnia man that the recent proceeding OF
the president is only a little by play
which does not mean anything. He need
not be afraid, and all the other English
voters can go ahead with perfect conf
dence.
Three ministers Of the United States
resumed Mr.. Blsine, " certainly two, have
had their walking papers for offenses
less grave than that; and tonight if az
American minister at England should
write to an English voter advising him tc
support either side as the one favorable
to the United States, he would be politelI
| invited to sail home by the next steamer
And then what does the secretary of state
do? Why, he says it was no harm, it was
only private. Well suppose he sends &
private circular, suppose ne issues 10000
of then, and