The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-24

not directly contribute ono farhing to the public
| revenue. There ID nothing moro common in THU
country than for the better GLASS of femaes to uss
| cold wator or milk at their morning and eycnns
meals instead of tea Coffee on the ecore Of health
and it is within the knowledge Of ALL tina. millions
in every country abstain from Wines sprits ae TO-
bacco snuff, 60, to the infinite advantage Of their
health and strength, their happiness, sbty
and means During the agitation Of the mes-
sure for the emancipation Of the West India
slaves, the consumption Of svery thing raised
by their labor was common ia Great Britain and
ireland, which caused the disuse of sugar, aud by
consequence, tea and coffee. The injury TO the
wholesale and retail dealers in those articles is not
worth Thought, for as class, shop keepers though
convenience, mover add to the wealth Of coun-
try; besides, they can engage in some other traffic
CohtempOrcneOps with the non consumption Of all
dutiab!e articles should DO your disuse Of British
manufactures of every description; and should you
not adopt the recommendation of Swift to burn every
thing coming from England but her Goals, you should
form league, bound by solemn oaths, il necessary
not to buy anything the produstion Of British la
mics, and treat them as such, who would trade in
purchase, or use any manufactured article not made
IN Ireland. The principle you have hitherto
adopted of employing the labor of England and
in provisions which should be the food Of your
own people, while you leave unemployed those
people, as capable of manufacturing for you ~
your foreign enemies, to starve the high
or to drag out lingering existence, at your OK
pense, IN the w0rkhouse, to seek in distant cmes
that employment which home denied, has been tho
prime cause of your degradation and ruin, ana il
policy 80 insane that it could hardly be credited Of
the Hottent0ts. Do you not know that labor is
the source Of all wealth? The MULTIPLICATION of
capital by its employment on labor can only DO co IA
pared to the growth from grain Of mustard seed
Contemplate, for moment the circulation Of a sin
gle sovereign, expended on labor He who receives
II must produce that which is worth a sovereign
and, IN turn, expanding it in the purchase Of
what is created by labor, it quickly reproducos
on, until the mind falls back from the contem-
plation OF its multitudinous increase. This in
crease IS unknown amongst you, because your
labor is unemployed; but it is the knowledge and
practice of it by England which has made her what
she II. Your employment of British labor, to the
neglect your own. has sweled the excise and GUS
toms oil England-has enriched and pampered her
manufactures and merchants, who do oil in their
power, IN and out OF Parliament to Cypress and de-
grade you. while the operatives, who, through
your means, enjoy constant and profitable employ
ment, when the opportunity presents itself. as in
tho recent case at Stockport shed the blood of your
countryInen because they are Irish and Catholic,
desccrate their affairs, and ruin their temples
What country in the world but Ireland would sub
mt to this, yet more, encourage it! II is rd
culous and untrue TO say you cannot do without
English manufactures and that you cannot manu-
facture tor yourselves, that you to import
from England, you will no longer have q
market for your produce. You can make fabrics of
wool, cotton, and fax, good enough for honest men
and women to wear, superior to what your fathers
Knew Of and what Drawer and better people through.
out the world have worn and yet wear. In cutlery
pottery, and the many other domestic requisites
you have skill enough to supply your reasonable
wants, and should you require aid, thousands Of
your own countrymen employed in English factories
will be able and willing to give it. Your ports are
rs open as those of England for the importation of
wool, (of which you would want but little, as you
W. ontkn
ana other raw materials-au now duty free, be-
ieve and your linen and other manufactures will,
upon the ordinary principles of commerce. be an ex-
change or an equivalent for these As respects your
agricultural produce, your country being . ma
ton OF unempoy ed paupers, because of your en-
coursgement of foreign labor. you are. of course,
obliged to find market for it in England, for
which you are paid, mind, in goods, not in
money; but when you cease to employ Eaglish
labor, you will cease to pay for it, and
the market for your produce win then be amongst
your own employed people. Such surplus as you
may have, if you sell as cheap as other countries,
England must buy from you, and pay for in cash
or give Indispensable raw materials for it. may be
told that the want of capital the absence of legisa
tive protection, and the cheapness of British manu-
fsctures will be iusurmountable obstacles to the sue
cess of this project / answer that if any want of
capital exists, 1t arises wholly from the suicidal
system OF employing foreign labor while your own
is unproductiye aud supported in idleness in work
houses, or on outofdoor relief aud that zach hour
the system lasts the scarcer will capital become
But deny the want of means in Ireland for all ob
Jects OF national prosperity Looking at the capital
of your banks, ut the vast deposits therein and
in the savings banks, awaiting profitable employ
ment. at the investments Of Irish money in
the English funds and in railways, and other
joint stock companies. assert that the capi-
to that of Scotland, or the United States; but her
system OF credit is Detective and requires consider
able enlargement. As to the absence of legisla-
tive protection, it is evil. The labor of every
nuhf m ho
other produce, alone should be free, or next to
it. But whose fault is this absence of protection IN
Ireland Your own, assuredly; you allowed the
annihilation OF your parliament, which would have
shielded your manufactures and commerce: and, in
1923, you permitted England by the abolition Of
all duties between you and her, to try 'sher prem
tice ha nd in free trade upon you, and bankruptcy,
pauperism, famine, and selfexile, have been your
lot since Such is the result of free trade in Ireland
Free trade Did that embodiment of more than
human selishness-the British nation-adopt the
principle till she had attained an ascendancy in
manufacturing skill and power, by her wealth,
competition, and did she establish it ms her
national policy until she had proved its terrible
destructiveness by its operation upon Inflated Ire
land But the absence Of protection may be met
victons of selfinterest. As, for instance, in the
case Of Scotland. Some eixteen years, or upwards,
since, manufacturers in that country, turned their
attention in very limited way to woollen fabrics,
-
first produced were most oire in style, and in price
much higher than English goods; nevertheless, her
nobility and gentry at home would wear them, aud
Lord Brougham and other distinguished Scotchmen,
made them fashionable in London. Your miserable
squireens paltry attorneys, and petty shopkeepers
would turn up their noses at such fabrics. The
people of Scotland would presently have them and
cheaper good from Yorkshire, till at length this de-
termined support ofnatve fabrics encouraged their
manufactures, that increased capital was quickly
invested and skill and enterprise stimulated Soon
the Scotch manufacturers met the Englshman in
competition in his own country, and with such sue
coss, that in few years London, Liverpool, Leeds,
markets If Irish love Of home, Of sefinterest and
common sense, would but make it follow the exam
pie of Scotland, how happy for its people would be
the result There is no shallower pretext for pre-
ference OF foreign over native manufactures, than
that most frequently put Acknowledgements In
the case Of Ireland, it is peculiarly ignorant and
stupid The man of estate ensures for himself, By
nc En, ltsh Il,