, 1888-11-01
BLAINE IN NEW YORK.
The Brilliant Orator Delivers Another
Speech on Another Subject.

Speech on Another subject.
New YORK, Oct. 5--Irishmen turned
out in full force to night to attend the
mass meeting of Irish protectoniets at tho
Madison Square garden. The immense
building was crowded TO overflowing half
an hour before the meeting was called to
order and the adjacent streets were
thronged with people eager to get q
glimpse OF James G.. Blaine, the attrac-
| ton of the evening. There were 1000
persons in the building at 8 o'clock, when
Judge A. l.. Morrison of Arizona on be-
half of Chairman Patrick Ford read an
address, in which these passages occurred:
"We are here tonight not as lrishmen to
consult for the best interests OF Ireland,
but as Americans to discuss American af-
fairs, with American ends In view. We
are "a foreign element, as a loose phraseol-
ogy might imply, but we refuse to so re-
| gard ourselves This land is our home,
and in the present national contest we sec
only the republic, and are concerned only
for her welfare. For us party lines are
obliterated. The man who fights under the
flag of British free trade, no matter of
| what race he may be, whether he knows 1t
or not is practically one of our English
enemies, and, on the other hand, the man
who fights under the flag Of protection TO
American labor, whether native or for
eign, that man we hail as comrade, broth
er and American"
BLAINE's SPEECH.
| Patrick Eagan and David Healy spoke.
and Mr.. Blaine commenced after this mes
sage from General Harrison had been
read: IL gratefully accept the congratu-
lations of the Irish American protection
lists, now assembled in mass meeting in
Madison Square Garden, and in return
congratulate them upon the magnificent
impulse their intelligent seal has given to
| the cause of protection in this campaign.
Benjamin Harrison" Mr.. Blaine said:
"MR. CHAIRMAN: / speak tonight to
men of Irish birth. but not in relation TO
their connection with the British empire.
/ speak to them in relation to their citizen
ship TO the great American republic, APP
plausel and of the duties they owe. and to
gather the strongest lesson tor Irismen 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, and to the
exile of millions of her children because Of
the misgovernment destined primarily to
her utter financial ruin, because her peo-
pie were not allowed to adopt for her
own use and her own advantage, the prin-
ciple of protection for which all lrishmen
should struggle in America. Cheers.
I -
land, that only forty years ago she shipped
a greater amount of produce across the
channel to England than the United States
exported to all countries; greater than
the empire of Russia sent to the other
countries of Europe, and with all this,
where is Ireland to-day? She shares the
fate of all countries purely agricultural;
she shares the fate that would in later
degree overtake us if the free trader
| ahnnlA hu his uJaxr nd raI,,ca fAS
agricultural people, lapplauseI and Yet
tonight the fear, is that the majority of
the Irish voters OF America or the Irish
American voters would cast their ballots
on The 9Th day of November as the pres
ent government of England would desire
them to cast it. lCries of mo- Nowl
wish yon could make that mo large
majority of the Irish vote of the United
States.
LORD sAoKvILL's LETTER.
For the last few months the democrats
have been denying and the republicans
affirming that the first and last and con-
stant wish of England is that Cleveland's
administration shond be sustained by the
whole force and effect of English public
opinion, and just when they had begun to
make the impression upon the American
people that such might not be the fact. we
have letter of the British minister to
Washington lgroansI urging the re-elec-
tion of Cleveland. And you can never
letter that called it forth. To get the
whole gist and meaning of the corre-
spondent you must have both sides of it,
and this letter from the British minister was
called out by a letter from California, writ
ten by native of England" Blaine then
read the letter in which the writer states
to Mr.. Sackville West that his faith has
been shaken by President Cleveland's ad.
miDistration and writes TO the British
minister to deceive his doubt. and Mr..
West says to the California man that the
recent proceedings of the president is only
a little by-play, which does not mean any.
thing. He need not be afraid. and all
other English voters can go ahead with
perfect confidence. Three ministers Of
the United States" resumed Blaine, GER
tainly two. have had their walking papers
for less than that, and tonight if an
American minister at England should-
write to an English voter advising him to
support the one faborable to the United
States, he would be politely invited to sail
home by the next steamer. And then
what does the secretary of state say 2
Why he says it was no harm, it was only
private. Well, suppose he sends pris
vate circular; suppose he issues 10000 Of
them and marks them private on the cor
ner and there came discovery, suppose
Secretary Bayard would say. mot par
ticle of harm, so long as you mark them
private, and as long as you make them pri-
vate they will have 30 much more beneficial
effect when they get into public print.
and so this has done its perfect work. It
was written for Grover Cleveland and
guess it Was written in aid of hun, to
bring the naturalized voters to his sup
Fort, and Mr.. Cleveland's premier at the
head of his cabinet, says it is all right.
and we are to have British minister at
Washington giving his opinion as to what
we should do in this country in our polit-
ical and our domestic parties. One re-
mark he makes | wish to comment on par.
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