The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-18

can party But we are, nevertheless,
a great American party, and the party
in power. OF course this hurts the
sensitive nature of the Tribune. The
Tribune says, that according to Eng
lish estimation Mr. Cleveland is the
incarnation of all that is great, honest,
and good. Did England ever have such
thoughts of Abraham Lincoln?
My answer, as an Englishman, and
connected with hundreds of thousands
of English workingmen, is yes. They
admired him for UNFOLDING the union,
and emancipating the slaves, and they
shed tears of sorrow when he was as
sassinated.
The English people also respected
and gave a hearty welcome to Presi-
dent Grant when he visited their own
shores And l recolect well the time
when Mr. Cowan, NJ. P. for Newcastle
on Tyne, and other workingmen, show
ed him through the Armstrong Gun
factory. President Garfield, another
Republican president, was also well
liked and respected by the English
working classes.
The Englishman knows who to re-
spect and admire, in spite of their
political proclivites. and that might
be lesson to the Tribune. This great
Republican critic. the Tribune, says:
How is it that the party, which is the
States, is conducted by men who have
for their chief eulogists the papers be-
yond the seas?''
My answer is, (as one who knows
something of things beyond the sea-,
that the Englishman is no lover of
excessive taxation. He does not be-
lieve in taxing the many for the bene-
fit of the few.
He has that much love and respect
for Brother Jonathan, being, l may
say, of the same blood, that he would
like to see him prosperous and have
untrammeled commerce with the world
1t is only the aristocratic tories Of
England that are protectionists. The
masses viii have none Of it. The Re-
publican Tories here may pirate about
Encouraging industries. and high
wages, and so forth, but the working
classes are beginning to see into those
fallacies.
AS Abraham Lincoln once said, you
may fool the people for a time, but
you cannot fool them all the time.
Again the Tribune says: There
is another queer feature about this
Democratic party. 1t draws to it a
great many of the English and Irish
who emigrate to this country. They
come because they cannot stand Eng
fish methods, but the moment they
get here their effort seems to be to do
anything possible to build up the party
that wants to open this country to
English rapacity."
Now, maintain that is false posi-
ton. The Englishman comes here,
deeply imbued with ideas of liberty
He is thoroughly opposed to class legis-
lation-he has seen enough Of it in his
native land
The reflective and intelligent Briton
has not forgotten what brought about
the chartist and bread riots about a
century ago.
Generally speaking, ne is too shrewd
to be led away by Republican faker-
ism, and therefore he is drawn into
the fold of Democracy, and becomes a
patriotic Ameican-one of the people.
He cannot see how taxation can
make the toiler rich. or protected in
dustries cheaper the commodities Of
life 1t is against the doctrine Of COM
mon sense, and the generality of Eng
hshmen have a little Of it.
Again. our Republican organ is at
sea, lost in the fog of its own vaporing,
when it says: Imagine a man leaving
the old world through oppression; his
heart filled with bitterness. He comes
to this country and joins the party of
oppression here"
No, sir, such a fool as that cannot
be found outside Of the Republican
party. 1t is evident that the editor
Of the Tribune refers to my letter
written some time ago, and published
in his paper, entitled THE Old World
and the New and Why 1 Left My
Native Land" signed by a political
refugee
Let him read the reply which I sent
to one of his Republican critics, and
because of its Democratic nature, he
would not publish it
He will then find out the reason why
every honest and intelligent emigrant
from the old world, connects himself
with the Democratic party here.
Yours Respectfully,
"a DEMOCRATIC WORKINGMAN.'