The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-16
BAYARD CRITICISED.

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BAYARD CRITICISED.
Bayard, our minister to England, re-
Gently delivered an address before a lit
erary society3in Edinburgh, Scotland; and
among other things said:
In my own country have witnessed
! the Unsuitable growth Of that form Of state
1 socialism, styled protection, which be-
lieve has done more to foster class legis-
Ilation and foster inequality Of fortune,
corrupt public life, Danish men Of inde-
pendent mind and character from public
councils, blunt public conscience. and
| place politics upon the low level of a mer-
ceuary scramble, than from any other
| single cause. -
In commenting upon this a Republican
paper says:
We'll! How do you like it?-you who
believe in American institutions, American
liberty. the fostering care of government,
the protection OF American industry and
American labor--how do you like to have
the most important officer which this ma
tfon can send abroad-and that particular
officer representing save the word
this country at the court of the next
greatest nation in the world-stand up
before a foreign people and denounce his
own countrymen and his own legislative
enactments in such rounded phrases as
the above?"
Making laws whereby a comparatively
few men can become wealthy at the ex
pense of the great masses of the people
is designated by the contemporary quoted
as American liberty. That kind Of lib
erty is always shackled and it's victims
compelled to turn the profits Of their la
Dor into the pockets of those for whom
the unjust law was enacted. This system
of plundering the people is caleld protec-
ton and it is the song which Mckinley
and all his admirers sung. 1t is system
that robs the people by law and it's advo-
Gates tell the Americans that they are not
skilled enough or intelligent enough to
compete with the labor of Europe, where
as in this issue of the paper it is shown
that the opposite is true. It is system
which it's promoters inform us is abso
lutely necessary in order to give the
Americans time to learn their business
and as soon as the busienss is learned
then the system may be abolished. It is
a system which the American people have
denounced ON two occasions within the
past few years and when those whom
they elected to abolish it did not do SO
they quickly sent them adrift.
AS to the fostering care of government
the American people do not need it. a
fostering government and a paternal gov
eminent are identical. Everybody wants
to manage his own affairs in his own way.
as long as he does not interfere with any
body else, and he wants the government
to let him alone in the exercise of that
right. He doesn't want to look to the
seat Of government for instruction as to
how he shall live. It is this fostering care
of the government which has created the
tramps 1t has thrown its arm around
the favored ones and compelled. the multi
tudes to shift for themselves. It has
preached a laughable crusade about in
have become hoary with age and AFRO
CANT and powerful under this fostering
care. Under this fostering care the strug
Cling masses have no chance to succeed.
If the government could be made wealthy
CROUCH and equitable enough to throw its
fostering arm about all alike there might
at least be some consolation in the idea,
although the idea is impracticahle. But
this fostering government would do moth
ing of the kind even if itrwere possible. 1t
selects those upon whom it showers its
favors. The farmer at the. plough, the
mechanic at the bench or the workman in
the factory never expects any fostering
care; When the fields fail to produce a
crop the farmer has no hope that foster
ing government will come to his relief.
When the wages of the mechanic are re-
duced so that the dividends Of the COM
pany may be larger, the fostering gov
errment is silent as to him. When Tie
workman in the factory asks for money
enough out of the profits Of his labor so
that he may live decently he is refused.
Should he insist the mills are closed until
he is compelled to come to terms Does
the fostering careof the government come
to him then with a helping hand? It
gives him the privilege Of starving at
home or returning to the mill and ac-
cepting what is offered: 81;
fla wealthy manufacturer concludes
that he is not making profit enough out.
Of his business he goes to Washington
accompanied BY skilled lobbyists and elo-5
quent advocates and insists that the foss--
tering care Of the government shall come
to his assistance His hypocr1tical plea
is that he does not want It for himself but
ia order that he may pay higher wages to