The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-11-27
JUST TO HELP ENGLAND.
What Leading Irishman Has to Say of
Irish Support of Democracy.

of Ohio campaigning for the protect1 On
idea. This gentleman combines qualities
rare in the same person, the ability to
speak in a masterful manner and to write
with an equal degree of force. 1t is
quite safe to say that no man Of all the
parties in America is more thoroughly
a scholar on the economical issue than
Mr.. Harrison. He has made the question
not alone study, but a life long study,
and his articles on Protection vs.. Free
Trade, published in The itizen recent
ly, have been copied far and wide
throughout tine Union. The Ohio State
Journal of October 5th put the following
question: ,,"Does the Irish-American
like the scene just presented, that OF the
great Democratic statesman and protege
of Cleveland being Toasted by the Lon
don Chamb Der of Commerces"
Mr.. Morrison sent cteristically
able reply to The Journal. In the
course of it he said: England enacted
the most cruel and barbarous laws
against US and our faith until Ireland
became the only spot on earth where
Irishmen could not live like human be-
ings. She created famInes and pestilence
for the avowed purpose of exterminat-
ing our entire race. Failing by all her
worse than heather atrocities to destroy
us in olden times, she invented scheme
more deadly than war and more baneful
than famine. This invention is called
English free trade. The Irish manufac-
lures which survived the prohibiory de-
crees of the brutal Plantagenets, the
barbarous Tudors and the cold blooded
Stuarts died the death which has known
no resurrection under the vile. free trade
law of the worthless house of Bru1s-
wick. Before the enactment of the III
famous law Ireland manufactured all
her own people needed for their COM
fort and luxury and exported large guam.
titles of goods to foreign countries.
Since then she manufactures almost
nothing for either home consumers or
expectation. Destitution, idleness and
famine have followed free trade MS naJur-
ally as night follows day. Having driv-
English writers and speakers have never
ceased reviling and slandering them
wherever and whenever occasion offered.
What wonder then that hatred of their
tyrants became an Irish passion? We
would be less than men if it bad not.
"But here is a mystery that has defined
all attempts at sexplanation: these VIC
Tins of English misrule come to Ameri-
ca and largely ally themselves with the
only pro-English party III the Union.
Even when the same free trade which
routed out Irish manufactures has be-
come Democratic dogma, and is today
producing the same dire results it pro.
duced in ireland, Irishmen are found
blind enough to adhere to that party. If
anything can open the eyes of the Irish
Democrats the scene you allude to surely
ought to do so. Oh, the shame of it!
WI. Wilson, the author of the free trade
measure which bears his name, imme-
diately after it's passage hastens to Eng
land to receive the thanks and applause
of the people for whose benefit it was
made. There, in the midst of English
lords and gentlemen. inhaling the aroma
of wine and f1attery, he receives their
thanks for the services he has rendered
them. When he is assured that his is
the most honord name in England. when
he Loyalty drinks Vctoria's health, and
his own is pledged in return, he openly
declares that, the Repu blican party has
for years kept up the barriers against
English goods, and that the Democrats
have torn them down. and when the
baronet who presided complained that
the Wilson-Go German law was not as good
be (although it had reopened many mills
and factories in England), he was con-
soled by the declaration of Cleveland,
Wilson and all the other Democratic
wreckers that said law was only a be-
ginning.
"Irishmen, is it possible that any of
you will continue voting for party
whose leading man thus toadies to your
ancient enemy? Not vote of thanks,
not word of praise, not a banquet does
he receive in all America. The people
he has misrepresened and deceived in
West Virginia are preparing his political
grave He needs consolation and he goes
where he knows he can get tito Eng
and, whose mills and factories he has e.
opened at the cost of closed mills and
factories in America. Benedict Arnold
was not guilty of worse treason than
this. He attempted to betray his coun-
try for England's benefit Wilson knows
that the Democratic party could not live
a.day without the Irish vote, and vet he
goss to their deadliest enemy, to the
lords who spat upon the home rule bill
and flung It contemptuously in Irelands's
teeth, and congratulates them on the
ruin he has wrought in America and the
prosperity he has given to them. Before
the passage OF the bill for the protection
of English manufacturers tens of thous-
ands of Irishmen cast their votes in pro-
test against it. and this fall hundreds of
thousands more will vote against the
party which has inflicted it on America
and in doing so they will show how thew
like the shameful uu-American and
pro- English scene Of the Wilson banquet
in London