Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-11-03
am, --ctionists.
The American system of protection,
which during the past two years has borne
abundant fruit, must bs maintained.
4 PRorEoT1ox1sT ARGUMENT.
A Irish man to 1r,shme..

Al 1rishman to 1rishmen.
John Brennan in his book ERIN Nor,
The Story of Irish Republication" offer,
the following reason why Irish-Amsrican,
ought to be Republicans:
''The writer of the following pages can.
didly believes that while ferei en- rule has
been the browning and all comprehendina
curse of Ireland, and while landlordism
has been among its most potent ills, yei
British free trade, identical with the tariff
reform which the Democratic party now
seeks to inflict upon the United States, was
the underlying. If net tho immediate cause
Of the terri BILE famine of 1861. Ireland,
ono year with another, produces sufficient
food to fatten more than double its present
populations; yet among the working peo-
period,cal. Since the destruction Of Ire
lond's manufacturing industries under the
operation OF free trade, agriculture is the
only i'm portant industry of the people; and
country devoted to agriculture alone 10
country already doomed, while a.nation
whose industries are already healthily di-
versitied 10 proof against famine and decuy.
1T is not difficult to understand why
England fayors free trade with America;
uoris it to b0 wondered at that among peo-
pie OF great Intelligence and of many minds
like the Americans, England should find
many devoted believers in her plausible
theories; but it 10 . mystery why Irishmen.
OF all other citizens in America, should be
precisely % England would have them
tete: and that when Grover Cleveland OF
Harper's Weekly sounds the drum beat ci
Engla calling for soldiers to fight her
battles at the American ballot box, those
who most cheeriully respond to the rolls
exiles, driven from their island home by
that same tree trade policy; why those
whose own factories have been do troyed
by E nglish free trade should be DESTROYS
to vote themselves into the conditions from
which they f ed when they lett their own
curses on their lips.
I'm seventy years preceding 1890 8 500, 900.
of Irish landed in the United States {and
this does not include the children OF Irish
parents who came from Bril- ain and British
North America). 1--we take into account
those who were in the colonies and those
who cape prior to 1920 it is "a 9 to say that
not less than 4, 25l 900 OF people; and that
their descendants are no fewer than Is, Co.,
0O0. which, with the parent stock now Ilv
ing, would swell the Irish element in this
coun try to something like Is. 00O, 600. Let
Us say that one-third OF this element has
forgotten the parent lake to which this lie
blood ought to be traced. Let US say that
1ll 0oo ON They cast in Congressional and
nrasGent;a, eject;on. . n?.o nn0 vote.
Their swav !. ahsolnta in many American
= ties. thcv Are nowerfniin the New Enc.
land and Middle states when England
drove them out thew did not seek homes in
Georris. Alabama. South Carolina or Ken
tuckv They nettied in New York New
Iarsev Pennsvivania and Nav ENGLAND
where Northern enternrisa and Nopthern
caTltal bnilt Factories and inau urated nub-
liz imnrnuamants and cavs them i.hnr for
tha;r IL nj. and bread for their f.m;l;.s
Ac.ina Under eth the natural l.w thu. men de.
ciata i've whsrs thav md i.s.t r.si at. nee -
Glu. ~ oi frah a,,,;as.nt.
Nv. ,ss ~ I1n;tsa s..ta. 1870
.nat eyer caaao ~ .ne on..eu I.sses sS.us 90
IN IN tnat region Dounoea on the soutn ny
the ONO river, ana on inc West py nne
drawn north ana south through the west-
ern limit OF flttsblrg, Pa. Ana yet II IS
strange, and 70 the American mlnd neon,
prehenslble that the tremendous polincal
power OF this vast mass OF men has been
welded almost solldly. until within the
past decade. in cooperation with the slave
oligarchy of the South. and exactly in &C
cord with the wishes and interests of En-
gland, and IN opposition to the wishes and
| desires OF the Northern people by whom
these Irish exiles were employed and among
whom they aud their children made their
homes. Atlast the lines are broken. and
/ thousands of self-respecting Irish .Ameri-
cans refuse longerto be dragged at the char