The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-13
SENSIBLE IRISH-AMERIcANS.
The Anti-Free Trade League Vigor
GUS and Steadily Growing.

The Irish-American anti-Free Trade
League has been laboring hard for the
last two months organizing clubs in the
several Assembly districts of New York
City. A committee was appointed to
draw up an address some time ago to
Irish-American citizens principally. The
address, which is headed "America vs..
England" is in part as follows:
"Two parties are asking our support,
and one great issue on which depends
in an especial manner the prosperity or
adversely of the workingmen of America
Is at stake. That issue involves the
abandonment of protection to American
industries and the adoption of English
free trade, or no tariff, in its place. At
ter four months of secret consultation
with members of the English Golden
Club and agents of British importing
houses and persistent refusals to hear
American workingmen who desired to
the free-trade majority of the Ways and
Means Committee have presented bill,
which, if passed, will utterly ruin sever
al of our greatest industries, and injure
them all. The insolent and repeated
insult to our flag by Canadian officials
and their brutal treatment of our fisher
men in the lawful pursuit of their bust
ness aroused the just indignation of
every patriotic citizen. During the ex-
element consequent thereon, Mr. Cleve-
land requested the Senate to authorize
the appointment of q commission to
negotiate new treaty with England.
To the honor of that great branch of our
National legislature be it known it re-
fused to give its high sanction to any
further word negotiations with England,
but passed law authorizing Mr.. Cleve-
land to
RETALIATE ON THE CANADIAN WRONG DOORS.
act for act. Instead of obeying the will
of Congress by this manly vlndication of
our right, he studiously ignored il, and
against the clearly expressed will of the
Senate appointed certain persons to
meet like number OF Englishmen and
Canadians to negotiate q new treaty.
The envoy chosen by the British govern
ment to conduct its side of the conven-
ton was the renegade radical, Joseph
Chamberlain, whose malignant hatred
of Ireland caused the division in the
English liberal ranks which defeated
Gladstone's home rule bill. He sue
ceeded in convincing Cleveland and
Bayard that we were wrong and Eng
land was right, and treaty was agreed
to between them IN which the interests
of the fishermen were sacrificed to satis-
fy England's pride and Canadian rapaci-
ty. Fortunately there is q small Re-
publican majority in the Senate, and, al
though this English juggle, misnamed q
treaty, is supported by all the Democrat.
ic Senators, in all probability it will
never be ratified. An extradition trea-
ty has been prepared by the Tory gov
eminent of England, aided and assisted
by Mr.. Cleveland's friend and appointee,
Minister Phelps, who has given his APP
Salisbury and Balfour, assuring them
that the cause of the tortured people of
Ireland has no sympathizers in America
but the Irish themselves. The effect of
this treaty would be to flood America
with British spies who might cause the
arrest of any Irishman or American who
had visited Ireland and made himself
obnoxious to the British government,
and if
BY PERJURY OR OTHERWISE,
a case would be made against q person
so arrested he would be turned over TO
the tender mercies of English law. Dur
ing Joseph Chamberlain's residence in
Washington, said treaty was sent to the |
Senate with Mr.. Cleveland's approval,
and we owe its postponement and posi- |
BILE defeat to the Republican majority In
the Senate. Joseph Chamberlain, 1t
should be we'll know, is largely interest.
ed in the manufacture Of tin-plate, wood
screws and cotton thread; and the Cleve- |
land-M Mills tariffbill proposes to establish
free trade in the plates and TO reduce
the duty on wood screws and cotton
thread 40 low as to ruin these industries |
in America and give Chamberlain and