The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-08-29


Minnesota
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Next session opens September 9Th, 1856.
SAID He MIGHT Be A FOOL.
But Then lie Was Willing TO be Called
SucE, If He Could Vote For Bryan.
The Manchester, iowa. Democrat con-
tains the following ringing letter, which
is given as Il specimen Of the courageous
free coinage Republicans of Iowa. who
are going to. vote for Bryan: . :a.#
Il am going to vote for Bryan for pres
ident if I live till November, not be-
cause have left the old Republican par
ty but because believe the Republican
party has left me. Over q hundred
years ago little infant colony rebelled
against a tyrant. The result of that re-
bellion gave us the United States OF
America and for heritage the names of
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Warren,
Hale and all the old patriots. A new M
ton and new people were born out OF
that struggle. Joseph Flint left his
family in the then wilds of central New
York to carry an old flint lock n1usket
and bullet pouch and powder horn in de-
Tense of American liberties. He carried
these through the Cherry Valley, Coo
perstown and Wyoming campaign and
again at Saratoga. His wife and chill
dren struggled bravely on through the
long lonesome years in the wilderness,
where the howl of the wolf and the
whoop of the red devil allies of the Brit
ish made nightly music, while the hus-
band and father was away at the front
fighting for American liberties.
My father today lives on the old farm
down in New York Around my child
hood home clings the traditions Of Col.
Harper. Murphy Vroman and other local
patriots AS child l have handled in
awe the old musket, powder horn and
bullet pouch my ancestor used in that
struggle. In my boyhood l imb:bed the
strange idea that there were few Illus
trious names which stood Out prominent
ly on the canvas of the past These
names are those of Washington and the
patriots who fought to. .4 a uats,ican iber-
ties, and as hero worship goes L was
taught by tradition to worship at their
shrine and to loathe and abhor the name
of Benedict Arnold and the other tories
and traitors. Lincoln perpretated and
solidiiied | was taughe, what the above
wrought. -...
But here comes the ST. Louis conyen-
ton in the year Of grace 1896. one hun
dred and twenty years after the decla-
ration of American independence, and
says that those men, those patriots
were wrong Practically the proud stars
and stripes We're hauled down and the
British Jack run up by the trainers of the,
Republican party platform at ST. Louis.
Practically the time honored portraits OF
Washington and the other heroes of rs
are turned to the wall Perry's victory,
Valley Forge, Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga.
Gettysburg, Bull Run and all the lesser
fights Of American liberties and the per-
petration there Of mistakes and the re-
bellion of a bad boy, as it were, Lincoln,
Grant, ETC., fool and criminals, Benedict
Arnold, Jeff Davis and their like the
heroes. If I am right, and God forgive
me if am not right, [ would willingly
take the old flint lock my ancestor used
and go cunning for the trainers of the
St. Louis platform. Great jehosiphat
and littre fishes, think of it, get on
mule some day, start from the northward
to the Pacific, thence south to the south
west corner, thence east to Florida,
thence north to the place of beginning,
mote the mineral wealth, note the manu-
featuring plants, note the number of
people, their general intelligence, then
ask yourself are you ready by your vote
to tear this all away and to make it a
colony to little island that You could
dump into some Of our great lakes and
not scarcely be able to find it.
I may be fool but will the wise men
of the gold standard tell us what we
have to 20 to England for? True, we
have borrowed OF them, but they knew
then that their pay was to be in Ameri-
can money, and can't we pay them today
ONT of our mines and offsv4ss farms? Do
we need to traffic with chem? Can they
live without us? Is there one article we
are compelled to buy of them? If so /
do not know what it is. Why then
knuckle and pander to them You weak
kneed degenerate dudes, where is your
nerve? Have you no independence, no
love OF home, family or God, that when
England says thumbs up, up go your
thumbs? Shades Of the departed. heroes
Of rs, where are You? Don't you blush
with shame over the degenerate people
who inhabit the country you gave your
lives to establish?
[ may be a fool, If so | am an earnest
one. never will turn Washington's
portrait 10 the wall: never tear the dec.
laration of independence out of my. spell
ling book; never furl Old Glory to an
English Jack, vote if I live this fall,
for home, God and country. I have a
wife and daughter, they are my all, !
love them, they are to me worthy of love
and protection so far as am able, and
I am not going to vote If know it to
make their living any poorer or my
wages any less. >4
have from the lips Of no less a per-
sonage than Senator Allison the confes-.
sion that we can do nothing except by
English endorsement / say we can.
say we can at least once more show Eng
land that we are independent Of her. II
she doesn't like our money OF our ways
let her take the less of them.
Possibly have made fool OF myself
by airing my mind thus, but let no one
misunderstood me, am not q Demo;
crat yet, not Populist, but over and
above all I am an American and shall
do .what in my BEST Judgment lis right