Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — Irishmen Organizing for Protection. [ARTICLE]

Irishmen Organizing for Protection.

During the present week campaign headquarters will be opened in this city by tho Irish-Americans, who mean to do their full part in crushing the seeds of British free trade in this land. The citizens who have voluntarily engaged in this movement, are prompted solely by patriotic, love for the 1 land of their adoption. They ask nqjther pecuniary reward in the present nor political favors or preferments in tho future. With scarcely an exception these men have heretofore been Democrats, but their loyalty to the American flag is considered by them higher and more sacred than tho ties that bind them to any party. Cleveland has alienated them because ho has,proved a traitor to the principles that have made America foremost among nations; bocahsc lie has bargained, as far as his powers extended, to surrender the rights of Americans, and finally, because he liaS openly avowed his purpose of reducing American workmen to the level of the paupoffclaboiKfJ*Europe bv introducing English free trade. Some of his l'riends.who think he has shown his hand too openly have besought him to “hedge” iu his letter of acceptance, which will soon be published, butjin a conversation with Attorney General Cassidy, of Pennsylvania, Cleveland put himself on record in this unblushing stylo: “I believe in free trade as I believe in the Protestant religion,”—New York - Press.