The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-07-23

justice
see the farmer liistte ming to 4 ldelu-
sive story that fills his mind with visions
Of advantage, while his pocket is robbed
BY the steady hand Of high protection.
Our workingmen are still told the tale
often repeated in spite Of its demon
strated falsity, that the existing tariff is
boon to them, and that under it's opera
tion their wages must increase while,
as they listen, scenes are enacted in the
very abiding place of high protection
that mock the hopes of toll, and attest
the tender mercy the worklngman re-
ceives from those made selfish and sor-
did by unjust governmental favoritism.
We oppose earnestly and stubbornly
the theory upon which our opponents
seek to justify and uphold existing tariff
Jaws. We need not base our attack upon
questions of constitutional permission or
legislative power. We denounce this
theory upon the best possible grounds
when we contend that in present cond1-
tions, it's operation is UNJUST and that
laws enacted in accordance with it are
unfair.
Ours is not destructive party. We
are not in enmity with the rights OF any
of our citizens. All are our countrymen.
We will not abandon our regard for
them; but, invoking the love of fairness
and justice which belongs to true Ameri-
canism, and upon which our constitution
rests, we insist that no plan of tariff
legislation shall be tolerated, which has
for it's object and purpose forced con-
tributlon from the earnings and income
of the mass of our citizens, to swell di-
rectly the Accommodations of the favored
few; nor will we permit pretended soil
citude for American labor, or any other
specious pretext of benevolent care for
others, to blind the eyes of the people to
the selfih schemes of those who seek
through the aid of unequal tariff laws
to gain unearned and unreasonable adj
vantages at the expense Of their fellows.
FORCE BILL TREACHERT.
We have also assumed in our coven-
ant with those whose support we invite
the duty of opposing to the death an
other avowed scheme of our adversaries,
which, under the guise of protecting the
suffrage, covers, but does not conceal,
design thereby to perpetuate the power
of party afraid to trust it's continuance
to the untrammeled and intelligent votes
of the American people. We are pledged
to resist the legislation intended to COM
plete this scheme, because we have not
forgotten the saturnalid of theft and
brutal control which followed another
federal regulation of state suffrage; be-
cause we know that the managers of a
party which did not scruple to rob the
people of president would not hesitate
to use the machinery created by such
legislation to revive corrupt instrument
talities for partisan purposes; because an
attempt to enforce such legislation
would rekindle animosities where hope"
fitness and peace now prevail; because
such an attempt would replace prosperous
activity with disbursement and dread
throughout large section of our coun~
try, and would menace, everywhere in
the land, the rights reserved to the states
and to the people, which underlie the
safeguards of American liberty.
CAUTION TO THE INPATIENT.
I shall not attempt to specify at this
time other objects and aims of Democra-
tic endeavor which add inspiration to
our mission. True to it's history and it's
creed, our party will respond to the
wants of the people within safe lines,
and guided by enlightened statesman
ship. To the troubled and impatient
within our membership we command
continued, unswerviDg allegiance to the
party whose principles at all times past
have been found sufficient for them, and
to whose aggregate wisdom and patriot
ism their welfare can always be trusted.
In tone of craftsmanship which BELTS the
occasion, let me say to you as equal part
ners in the campaign upon which we
today enter, that the personal fortunes
of those to whom you have entrusted
your banners are only important as they
are related to the fate of the principles
they represent and to the party which
they lead.
I cannot, therefore, forbear commend
ing you and all those attached to the
Democratic party, or supporting the