Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — INFORMATION WANTED. [ARTICLE]

INFORMATION WANTED.

Pertinent Questions from the Organ of the Connecticut Catholics. There are some Irish-Americans who are shouting loudly for Blaine. There are a few laboring men who are, in like manner, demanding that he be elected our next President. Whv things are thus it is difficult to understand, but we are open to conviction. Anv man in the above classes will confer a favor, and undonbt-edlv-make many converts, by answering the following reasonable questions: 1. During a public career of twenty-five years what has James G. Blaine ever done, by word or action, to merit the support oOrish-Americans'? 2. In that same public career what did he ever do, by word or deed, to assist the poor man or better his condition? 3. What measure did he ever introduce or champion in the National House of Represents tives or the Senate that tended to favor the producing classes? 4. Is there a single instance, during a long and public career of more than a quarter of a century, where James G. Blaine has been on the side of the producing classes and the laborer? 5. How it was possible for James G. Blaine to become a millionare in a few years on a salary of $5,000. Did he secure his millions honestly or by selling his official influence to corporations and monopolies? 6. Can our "vigorous* foreign-policy-Irish-Americans point to one single case where James G. Blaine, as Representative, as Senator, or as Secretary of State, spoke one kind word for straggling Ireland or demanded that IrishAmerican citizens should be justly treated and immediately tried or liberated when arrested by English officials without warrant or cause? 7. Will some one inform us why James G. Blaine appointed such a snob as James R. Lowell to the Court of St James? And, finally, will some one be so very kind as to let us know why this same Blaine bowed the American colors to the flag of England and ordered a salute to be fired in honor of England at the celebration at Yorktown? We fail to see any good that has ever come, by the efforts of James G. Blaine, to the Irish American, to the laboring man, or to the masses in general. He is not in sympathy with the people and he cares not for their happiness and prosperity. He had many chances to prove his love for the oppressed, but he most disgracefully failed or blundered. We cannot afford to extend his power or give him another trial. We fear he would waste too much time, if elected President, in sending little complimentary telegrams to Queen Victoria.— Connecticut Catholic.