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Show COMMUNICATIONS. An It-isli Kcpubllcan. Editor Times: An editorial in this morn-imj's morn-imj's Trilvut. i noting as follows from the London Thnm: "(Itir Irishman In Hie rniti-d States wearing Knglisli broadcloth and voting vot-ing free trade is worth more to England than fifty Irishmen at home.'' The foregoing is a strong arraignment of a peoole who have been often maligned. The w riter must evidently be laboring tinder a feeling of intense hatred towards everything every-thing Irish regardless of facts, figures and statistics. Is lie sntlleiently well posted ou (fiat) hi:-tory to form an idea how that conn-try conn-try prospered tinder the (irattan parliament, when she steered her own ship of state and Instituted laws for the protection of her home mannfaetiiries and Industrial r Is he aware how tie- aet of union was ae-comnlislicd ae-comnlislicd ? Simply on account of the fear of Ireland maintaining a lio'.d on the manufacturing manu-facturing industries to w hich she laid claim. Having accomplished her purpose, after years tell the tale. The whfx of the loom no longer reverbrates through the lonely valleys; despair and destitution nervade many a home where happiness was only known. In the language ol Thomas Francis Mealier, a sound protectionist and a gallant defender of the land of his adoption, "Stripped of ai her industries one still remains' irichy profitable the eollln makers." Does it stand to reason that the descend-nuts descend-nuts of that race eould he anywhere eveeut OD the. side of protection A race that furnished fur-nished the horn, of our adoption with a Montgomery, a Sullivan, and nine signers of that immortal document, the Declaration of Independence. Have we not sh .v. i; u i i :i ihc esigencie-. of the occasion demanded it, that v. , inarched with steadfast tread under the banner of protection' 1 wish the wrlti r would refresh I his memory and call to mind the onslaughts of the free trade pres. on the Irish voters during the memorable campaign- of '84 and 'K8. The venom and spleen is still fresh iu our memorie-. We have not forgotten how such men as Finuerty, Ford. Brennan, Sullivan, Morrison j and a host of others, w ho stood by the spirit j of their convictions, were villitlctl. Av Irish KBri'MJCAK Salt Lake City, Jan. 7lh. |