Who Runs the United States

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 75, 5 June 1884, Page 3

Who Runs the United States

James Stevens, the Fei.ian leader ? has publicly stated that "the Irish in America will render it impossible foi ( any United States Cabinet to considei . England's request in regard tc . dynamite agitators" Were this bold . assertion merely the bombastic ravings ! ofaeraiik it would not be worthy ol further "iiotic.e, but tliere is a sub- , stratum of truth about it *hich raak«> Americans pau*e and ask themselves. " Who ruiig the United Mates V and to wQi.der if the statement made by Stevens is not a true one. Galling as the fact may be, it is, iieverthel ess not to be avoided that the Irish vote is one of the main scale tippers in political elections, that our so called . statesmen knuckle down and sink their honest convictions by truckling to gain its influence, and that on the eve of a political election " yielding to England's request" would doom more than one prominent candidate to political oblivion. It is a standing disgrace to the United iStutes that she should allow the open manufacture and shipping of infernal machines to work injury upon a friendly nation like England, to say nothing of the lack of that broad humanity which should recoil with horror at the thought of fostering in our midst fiends who would, under the false glamour of patriotism, render unsafe the livas and property of innocent people. If the Americans do not. have more t .resrard for their national politics than to mope at home while white-washed foreigners ami their broods swarm to the polls and carry all before them, America will s^on be turned into a new Ireland. Our public schools will be turned into Catholic seminaries, and the upstarts of a gem-ration hold the whip over men whose grandfathers fought for America's independence. It is about time th-t Americans should rouse their selves to action, and most seriously consider what in a very few y earg — if things go on at the rate they are now <joing on — will be one of those difficult problems whose solvingmay l-ad us into another civil war. — .San Francisco News Letter