Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — A WORD TO THE IRISH. [ARTICLE]

A WORD TO THE IRISH.

Madison Courier. Ireland is a down-trodden country and Irishmen at home are suffering want and poverty and degradation, simply for the want of self-govern-ment and the right to adopt and maintain a proteettve policy. Millions of Irishmen in America are prosperous and well-to-do. They have but to look at the history of their own country to see what effect British free trade would have if adopted here. No wonder that able Irish leaders are pronounced protectionists, and that Irish-Ameri-cans are forming protection clubs all over the country. Thousands are joining these clubs every week, and when the 6th of next November comes there should not be a single true and loyal Irishman who will not cast a, vote for men and platform that uphold the principles of protection. They have not only their impoverished country as a warmhg againat the evils of free trade, but they have American industry* and American prosperity as examples of the benefits of protection. Once they have been driven from their homes by free trade. They will hardly want to suffer a second experience. Let every Irishman, then, show his' appreciation of the blessings he has derived from the land to which he sleds by voting to maintain a policy that has! given, and will continue to give, work; and shelter to those who come to it ini distress. Irishmen, vote for protec-' tion.