Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
ENGLAND FOR BRYAN.
j. F. Scanlan Says Irish Should
Vote Against Nebraskan.
DEMOCRATS In FAVOR OF BRITAIN.
History Cited to Show Anglo-Demo-
cratic Alliance-Letter to Donatus
o'Brien on Republican Opposition to
the British.

Following is copy of letter writ
ten by John F. Seaman, of Chicago, to
I Donatus O'Brien, of Washington, d.
c.:
Your letter at hand | read it care
fully and agree with you that this is
a season of political unrest Expert
ence points out the fact that at the OPP
ening of campaign our democratic
friends can lift themselves into the
third heaven of success; but when the
votes are counted next November you
will find that the calm judgment of the
people will reject the party whose
record for seventy years is mainly
made up of promises and panics.
Our Irish-American friends to
whom you refer should remembers
they will remember it when the day
for action comes-that this world
would be dark indeed ii this republic
by any chain of circumstances Should
cease to exist, or even have it's pros
porous mission crippled, and no peo-
pie would suffer more by that catacl-
ysm than we Irish; hence in all our
political action we must first be Amer
leans.
''As Irish-Americans. how will it bet
ter our condition to vote for Bryan?
That gentleman represents that per-
verified democracy which for seventy
years has been the most obedient
agent of British interests. In the Cos
the leaders of that party, without con-
su-ting the people, and solely in the
interests of the English manufacturer,
changed from protection to free trade,
and since that time, on three different
occasions, they have thru free
trade, with forethought and design
shaped the laws of our country so as
: to turn over almost our entire wealth
making power to the English people.
l refer to the free trade panics of 1887,
1857, and 1898, by which the people of
this nation were reduced to conditions
like slavery, position inconsistent
for the citizens of a republic. Indeed
in the 1887 panic, the Shareholders of
the South tainted the free but idle
and soup-fed workmen of the north
with not being as we'll off as were the
slaves.
Gives England Land.
"In 1916 this same democratic party
: in the interest of monarchy and for
the deliberate purpose of Gripping
freedom, gave England 220 miles OF
our territory, running clear across our
3 northwestern boundary. In the sos
4 the democratic minister of England
! Buchanan-stultifie American sim
t plicity by appearing at the Court of st
! James in red breeches and cooked hat
: Immediately afterward he was nomi
: mated and elected president by thai
Iy,o M, no 10
which the leaders of democracy took
4 in preparing rebellion to destroy
4 this Union. Who was their partner in
: that unholy cause? Why, from John
: lOGroat's house to Lands End the
4 entire English aristocracy sent UP q
4 cry of JOY saying THE bubble is burst
4 the bubble is BURST" meaning thereby
d that the United States was burst
7 Surely no democrat will deny the posi-
/ ton of that party in those terrible
Y times, and of course it is well known
1 that England gave financial, naval
u and sympathetic support to the rebel
0 lion, even to the borderland of war
Nearly every gun used in that rebel
C lion and nearly every bullet Which
t struck down a union soldier had 6
!. London tower-mark on it. Our people
e are conversant with the work of the
J. southern privateers like the Alabama
s They destroyed our merchant marine
J. England fitted them out for that puI
: pose, and was benefited by the trans
t fer of hundreds of thousands of ton:
s. of our shipping to her nag.
+ THE Confederate bonds are toda,
g mainly in English hands, and whel
II tue last democratic administration
t. was in power the English holders o
1t those Confederate bonds had the sub
lime presump. .on to propose that tn,
United States should pay the debt, OF
the basis, presume, that the old part
nership has not been dissolved.
"For all this pro-English work TIL
d democratic party never once said ME
culpa" On the contrary, in 1892, IN
der the direct influence of the manu-
! facturers of that nation, the part
. adopted the most violent free-trad
platform ever enacted by sane pee
pie, and the free-trade policy was In
n strumental in bringing on PAM
which shook the foundations of the re
= public. England, by reason of tina
panic, for the first time in years show
!, ed surplus in her internal earnings
Considering the conditions surround
,. ing the results of that free-trade panic
!. 1t was emlnently IN Keeping Win III
partnership that Mr., Wilson, the chair
. man of the committee of ways an
q means in our congress, and father G
u the Wilson law, with number of MI
4, Cleveland's cabinet, should go direc
u to London, and while our workmer
I, many of them Irish, We're being fed a
public soup houses they, the democra
ic leaders, We're received with grea
joy, Toasted, fed, and thanked by tn
English manufacturers for making
"a law that gave poverty to the Unite
q States and wealth to England. In tn
Nc light of the above facts, | cannot sc
>. how intelligent Irish-Americans ca
10 vote for the candidate Of the DEM
" cratic party On the basis of Angl
!. Saxonism, history it seems to nj
y proves that England owns that part
~ body and soul, while at most the r
~ ports against the Republican part
e. have not enough evidence in them
~ give them standing in any court
- Christendom fear our friends in a
old-fashioued Democratic style on tn
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