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Working Their Own Destruction

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Day
21
Month
September
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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From the N. Y. ï'ress. Sir - I caudidly believe that while oreign rule has been the crowning and all compreheuding curse of Ireland, and while hindlordisin has been among its nost potent ills, vet British free trade, dentical with the tariff reform which ;he Democratie party now seeks to inliet npon the United States, was the unlerlying, iL not the immediate, cause of :he terrible famine of 1846-47. Ireland, one year with auother, produces surricient food to fatten more than doublé its jresent population; vet among the working people there poverty is perpetual and famine periodical. Since the destruction of Ireland's manufacturing ndustries under the operation of free ;rade, agriculture is the only important industry of the people ; and a country devoted to agriculture alone is a country already doomed, while a nation whose industries are healthily diversified is proof agaiust famine and decay. It is not difficult to understand why England fa vors free trade with America; nor is it to be wondered at that among a people of great intelligence and of mauy minds like the Americans England should find many devoted believers in lier plausible theories ; but it is a niystery of mysteries why Irishmen, of all otlier citizens in America, should be relied on to vote in American elections precisely as Kngland would liave them vote, and that wheu Grover Cleveland sounds the drunibeat of Eugland calling for soldiers to tight her battles at the American ballot box, those who most cheerfully respond to the roll cali should be the sons and kindred of Irish exiles, driven from their island home by that same free trade policy ; wliy those vvhose own factories liave been destroyed by English free trade sbould be so auxious to vote upon themselves and their fellow-citizens the same calamity in America, or desire to vote themselves into the conditions from which they fied wheu they left their own green land with tears in their eyes and curses on their lips. John Brennan. Henry C. Waldron's great two year oíd Perdieron stalliou, Pluviose, 12469, weighing 1300 lbs. never goea into the sliow ring that he does not take the blue ribbou. He took first at the Detroit Exposition in August, competing against the cream from Senator Palmer's Log Cabin Stock Farm, and at the State Fair at Lansing last week, where the finest Perdieron horses were on exhibition that ever entered the show ring outside of Chicago. Waldron's stock will be on exhibition at our county fair.

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Ann Arbor Courier