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Show AN IKISH PROTEST. (From the Salt Lake Herald.) A correspondent writes from Ogden, enclosing a clipping from the Irish j World. His communication is too personal per-sonal to be printed in ite entirety, but a portion is given to siow a change of heart that has corne over many who read the Irish World, the Intermountain Intermoun-tain Catholic, and oUher liberty-loving journals: I I have been a strong Republican and a supporter of the Tribune since its first advent into life, and always took a. very active part in Republican and Liberal politics: always a delegate at their conventions, con-ventions, but I am no longer a Republican. Repub-lican. I voted for McKir.ley here' and gave money to the Republican fund. I always al-ways gave money to the Republican cause when there were such men as Grant, Harrison and Blaine, and the great Lincoln at the head of the party: but now I am a Bryan man because I believe him to be another Lincoln, while MoKin-ley MoKin-ley has turned many a good Republican out of the patty. As for the Tribune I detest it in spite of all the monev 1 have paid to its support. The Irish World 'editorial, entitled "A Word to a Salt Lake Briton," discusses dis-cusses the un-American attitude of our Anglicized contemporary as follows: fol-lows: One of our readers in Ogden. Utah, sends us a copy of the daily Tribune of Salt Lake City, which in an article under the heading. "A Word to Excitable Irishmen," Irish-men," suggests that the Irish who sympathize sym-pathize with the Boers in their grand and so far successful fig'ht against tho robber British empire are "loafers" whoso object is to "wring more assessments assess-ments out of the Irish-born population of this country." To show what experience the Irish people have had with assessments, the Irish World continues: The writer of this, a Briton we presume, pre-sume, must be a very ignorant man if he does not know about the wholesale performances per-formances of his countrymen in the line of "loafing" and "assessments" in every land on earth that they have been able to j-eize, as they are now trying to seize the Transvaal. Has he never heard of the "assessment" on Ireland of 512..TC0.ftf) per annum in the form of exorbitant and ex- tortionate taxation by the British treasury, treas-ury, as reported a couple of years ago by a royal commission? That commission, appointed by the British government, was composed mainly of English experts in taxation and finance, and after a full investigation in-vestigation of the subject it declared that for the past fifty years Ireland has been compelled to nay in imperial taxes from $12,500,000 to J15,0OO.XK) a year more than her fair share. What does Mr. Goodwin of the daily Tribune think of this as an assessment? It means the trifling sum of $fr.W.0-'X "assessment" in fifty years by rich England on "poor" Ireland poor for no other reason than that she has bpen and continues to be robbed' by her rich neighbor who is rich just because of such "assessments" upon countries cursed by her rule. There are British advocates in this country who are not Britons, just as there are subsidized silver organs that support the gold standard. The Anglicized An-glicized press of the United States took its cue from Chairman Hanna of the national Republican organization, who came back from Europe a few months ago witn fc'ucn an cxaueu opinion oi English rule that he and his party have undertaken to remodel our own government gov-ernment after that pattern. These tirades against American citizens citi-zens of Irish and German descent which appear from time to time are but the echoes' of administration cuckoos throughout the land. |