For Irish-americans

Twelve years havenowelapsedsincethj political hegita of the American voters from the raíales of the Democratie party. ïliat moveinent begun iu righteousnoss, bas with advaneing time grojyn into diinensions which threaten in the not remóte future to completely disenthral the American voter of Irish desceñí from the ehackles oí' the Democratie party. For over h'fty years lisa the Irish race been as Israelites in thi land of Pharaoh. Years of political senitude to Democratie political taskmastera in American cities have left their national aspirations regarding the Emerald Isla unrewarded and unsatisfied. Moreover as citizens of this groat republic they have been compelled by their unhappy affiliations with the Democratie party to assist the English oppressor iu placing a Saxon "crpwn of thorns" upon the brow of the American artisan. IrishAmericans! it is impossible for the Democratie party to be true to your race aj long as that party is pro-English in its commercial dealings. As free traders, the upholders of that seetion of American politicians must necessarily be traitors to the grand old Irish cause. It ia , primarily for these reasons that the best and wisest amongst you broke awaï from the Democratie chains which bound them. The genius of James G. Blaine has prevailed and under the iaspiration of his genius has it dawned upon the Irish-American that the rapacity of England can alone be checked by a vigorous and protective American policy. "No destructivo commercial or national alliance with England, or any other foreign country," has been the watchword of the Kepubliean party. With McKinley in the white house no Union Jack will be hoisted in commercial triumph in the ports and harbors of the United States. No English plutocrat or capitalist sha 11, vampire-like, drain the financial resources of this great and free land. ïhe London bankers of Bond and Lombard streeta shnll not pay us in 5O-cent dollars while they constantly demand payment in gold 100-cent dollars. Undet RepubliCan auspices these untoward events, galling as they are to the IrishAmerican heart, can never csme to pass. ïhe Democratie party, is wedded to a maelstrom policy that threatens to draw the United States to destruction. Irish-Americans! Grown up as yon have with the best interests of the United States, it is now your bounden duty to se ver all ties with the party tha1 would practièally, by its insensate policy, turn America iuto an Euglisb colony. ïhe illustrious archbishop of St. Panl he who has not been inaptly called "thl lion of the Western fold of Judah," John Ireland, has long since recogaized th potency of Kepublican claims to Irisb sympathy. Patrick Ford of New York, an eminent Irish journalist who has done y coman service in the Irish cause, has fallen into line as a stauneh Republioan. So has Pat Egan of Lincoln, Neb. Montion may also be made of Father Malorie. the patriot priest of Brooklyn, N. Y., and hosts of others who of late years have turned away in loathing from a party that debases itself by worshrping at the shrine of th English Moloch. In the present campaign it (the Democratie party) has exhibited anarchistic tendencies that threaten the foundations of American order. It would, forsooth, turn our financial edifice into a veritable tower of Babel and in every field oL political endeavor it would ruthlessly lay waste with the plowshare of soeialism. To avert these ealamities we appeal to the enlightened sentiment of the IrisliAmerican, little doubting that in the coming national election he will not fail to sunder the last and lingering attachinents which bind him to the party that would commercially prostrat bim at the feet of Eugland. Fifty vcars of unrequited loyalty to the Democratie fold will doubtless convince the American citizen of Irish descent that now is the time to rally to the support of the only party that by its proven loyalty to American institutions has shown the old enemy of Ireland no quarter upon Uuited States soil. Whatevor Irish-American support the Democratie party may have merited in the earlier years of Ivish iinmigration it has forfeited by its sworn ailiance with the cause of English commercial supreniaey on American soil. For years it has done nothing in sustainnient of the Irish cause at home. No strugglinc nationality has found a friend in the American Democratie party of today. It is but a few days since a Democratie president haa endorsed the action. of the bloodhounds of Spain on Cuban soil. Can we doubt that he would not do the same in support of English. tyranny on Irish land. When the Democratie president was shamed into án act of manliness rogarding English aggressiou in Venezuela who sprung to its aid so readily as the Republican senators and party. From these instances we may gather innumerable lessons regarding Republican hostility to Euglisl; intrigue. It is to the party of Kepublicanism that the American nation looks fqr protectiou against the onslaught of British aggression and it is on these grounds that this great republic appeals to its citizens of Irish descent for rescue in this yital hour of danger.