The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-02-08
THE NEW MOVEMENT
Conducting Portion Ola Series of Very
Interesting contrlbu- 4.
s- tions.
TWO WAYS or eRIPPL1Ha OUR FOES
Don't Enlist and Don't Vote in Favor o
FREQ Trade at Any
Time.

Frao Trade ut Any WI
Time.
Concluded from last week.
In the midst Of those difficulties the Nc
Kinley tariff was brought forward. i in
vite the special attention OF the adher-
ents Of the New Movement to these Eng
lish opinions on 1t. The old enemy and
maligner of the Irish race said, Nov. 5,
1891: .'Ohio indeed, which at the con-
gressional election last year apparently
rovolted against the protection policy
and threw out Mr.. Mckinley, the author
or sponsor of the new tariff law, has re-
turned to its first love. We regret Mr..
McKinley's return, which, as President
Harrison's congratulatory message
shows, will give new confidence to the
Protectionists." July IA, 1890, the Lon
don Despatch contained this very s:gniti-
cart Item. SAT Sheffield today, the mayor
of that city presided over a meeting at
tended by 12O,0 900 persons, IT'S object. be-
ing to protest against the Mckinley tariff
bill as seriously affecting Sheffield's man
ufacturing interests" London Engineer
ing, April 8. 1892, says: There is a gen
era1 idea here that the Mckinley Tariff
law will be repealed before long, or, at
all events, he SO much modified that the
sting will be taken out Of those clauses
most Objectionable to British manufacture
ers, and it is for this reason that the
hopes for the Democrats for the ap-
preaching presidential election are so
largely shared in this country" The
London Financial Times hopes that "the
American people will tear up the Nc
Kinley law, root and branch
Well, the Mckinley bill became law,
and here IS what Sir Charlie S Upper,
Canadian High Commissioner, said at the
congress of chambers Of commerce Of the
British empire: 'In 1890 England took
from the products of the United States
$4s5, 100000 without the imposition Of
one farthing of duty, and they in re-
turn S160,O0O,O00; so that two-thirds of
what they sent to us had to be paid for in
cash. Well, were they satisfied? Not at
all. They passed the Mckinley Tariff law
and by one stroke of a pen they knocked
Off To- per cent Of that paltry $3.50, 100000.
Them through the Mckinley law they,
like a. great octopus, threw their tenta-
cles overall South America and the West
Indies to drive British trade out of that
country, and they are, going to do it. y
He then reads what the British c0nslls in
Brazil SAYS: "You must make up your
minds to lose che Brazilian trade, be-
cause the United State has got hold Of
Brazil under the reciprocity clause of the
Mckinley law And then Sir Charles
continues: "By doing that they have
done that which I hold to be a. greater
crime than the imposition of the McKin
ley tariff and knocking down the small
amount of the product of British indus
try sent to the United States, a greater
wrong than by throwing their tentacles
around South America, the Antilles and
the West Indies, with a. view to drive
England and Canada out of the southern
hemisphere
II the old Fenian Brotherhood or Clan
na-Gael had written the Mckinley act it
could not have struck a more deadly blow
at British trade and bolw at Britain
trade is a blow at Britain's life. BY de-
stroying her markets we cut off her sup
plies, and that means death. BY contin-
uing that policy for ten years we could
reduce England to such a condition that
she would have all she could do to feed
her idle millions; in twenty years che
would be at the mercy OF any enemy.
Perhaps some OF our West Britons may
think this is too cruel, II so, let them
stand aside. We need neither their adj
vice nor assistance. Such men would
not cut off the supplies of the enemy in
the field. I not only have no such scru-
pies, but I exult in the fact that l have
been able to cripple the enemy. In the
short: life of the Mckinley law, which
wrought such havoc in British interests,
English factories we're closed by the hun
dred and American factories were re-
opened, ;or built, to take their places. 1t
shut England out Of South and Central
America and the Spanish, and even some
of the British West Indies, and very
largely out of the. United States as we'll.
But why was this policy so beneficial to
America and so detrimental to our en-
envy not continued? The plain answer is
that English policy prevailed, the Nc
Kinley law was repealed and our mar
kets were thrown open to England
Here are few figures which tell what
England has gained and we have lost in
ten months of the revised tariff. In
that time we bought $S8,608,977 more
from Europe than In a corresponding
lille QuuSI LuG tlCAlIl1cy Id w, duu VI tlldt
we sent .$51. 746,O0O to England. That
was great relief to the old enemy, and
the misery and disgrace of it is that ev-
cry Irishman who voted for that policy
helped not only to give it to her but to
take it out of. our pockets for that pur-
pose. Without any notice of. the dire
effects Of this policy on America, let me
ask how any Irishman who processes to
hate the English enemy, can reconcile
that idea with his conduct in voting to
enrich her and thus enabling her to
tighten her grip on his native land? He
has been actually making sacrifices to
save the old tyrant from financial ruin.
If such an Irishman has any doubt. on.
the matter, / submit the following Brit
ish authority for his inspection:
THE lowering Of the American tariff
has been our salvation, and it can not be
said that we have shown much reciproc-
ity; for, instead of taking the increased
value of GUS shipments across the Allan
tic in kind, we seem to have bought less
American produce. It is needless to go
beyond our own Board of Trade returns
to find an explanation of a good deal of
the monetary trouble in the United
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