The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-08
AN IRISH PROTEST.

A correspondent writes from Ogden.
enclosing a clipping from the Irish
World. His communication is too per-
sonal to be printed in it's entirety. but
a portion IS given to show a change
Of heart that has come over many who
read the Irish World. the Intermoun-
tain Catholic, and other Iiberty-loving
journals:
have been a strong Republican and a.
supporter Of the Tribune since its first
advent into life, and always took q very
acuYe part ia Republican and Liberal
pOHucSi always a delegate at their con-
VeutiOus, but 1 am no longer a ReDub-
lican. / voted for Mckinley here and
gave money to the Republican fund / al
ways gave money TO the Republican
cause when there were such men as
Grant, Harrison and Blaine, and the great
Lincoln at the head of the party: but
now l am a Bryan man because / believe
MIN to be another Lincoln, while McKin-
ley has turned many a good Republican
out of the party. As for the Tribune /
deteSt ii in spite of all the money have
paid to its support.
The Irish World editorial. entitled
~ Word to d salt Lake Briton." dis
cusses the un-Ameriean attitude Of
our Anslicized contemporary as fol-
lows:
One Of our readers in Ogden. Utah.
sends US a cOp4 of the daily Tribune Of
Salt Like City. which in an article under
the heading \ Word 20 EXcitable Irish
men, suggests that the Irish who SYM
p2JnlZe with the Beers in their grand
and so far successful fight against the
rObber British empire are .'Ioafers'
whose object is to wiring more assess
ments out Of the Irish-bOrn population OF
this country"
To show what experience the Irish
people have had with assessments, the
Irish World continues:
The writer Of this. a Briton we pre-
sumo. must be a very ignorant man if he
does not know about the wholesale per-
f0rmanceS Of MS cOuntrymen in the line
of ''l0aung and assessments i'm every
land on earth that they haSe been able
IT, seize, as they are now trying TO seize
the JranSvaaL Has he never heard of the
assessment on Ireland of S12500G90 per
annum IN the form of exorbitant and ex-
tortionate taxation by the British treas
ury. as reported a couple of years ago BY
a royal commission That commission
appointed by the British government was
composed mainly of English experts in
taxation and finance. and after a fun in
VeStigdCiOn Of the subject ID declared that
for the past fifty years ireland has been
compelled 10 pay in imperial taxes from
her fair share. What does MI GOOtiV-i
Of the daily Tribune think of this is an
assessment Il means the trifling sum
Of S035,oo5,uu9 assessment in fifty years
by rich England on poor Ireland-DOOr
tOr no 0tner reason than that she has
been and continues to be robbed BY her
ricn neighbOr-who is rich Just because of
such assessments upon countries cursed
by her rule.
There are British advocates in this
country who are not BritOns just as
there are subsidized silver organs that
support the gold standard. The An
glicized press OF the United States took
its cue from Chairman Hanna oe the
national Republican organization, who
came back from Europe a few months
ago with such an exalted opinion Of
English rule that he and his parry have
undertaken to remodel our own gov
eminent after that pattern.
These TRADES against American citi-
zens Of Irish and German descent which
appear from time TO time are Dui the
echoes Of administration cuckoos
throughout the land.