New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-21

has been Destroyed. The cailcOiOoms OF baiOrigga
have been DESTROYED The flannel manufacture OF Rah
drum has been destroyed The blanket manufacture
Kilkenny hes been destroyed The camlet trade o
BandoD which produced $1,000 year, has been do
stroyed: The worsted and stuff manufactures OF Wa
teriotd have been destroyed The rsteen and ir1eZt
manufactures Of Carrck onSuir have been destroyed
One business, alone survives One business alone
thTives and fOurishes and breads bankruptcy Thai
fortunate busineswhich the Union Act has nor struck
down, but which the Union Act has stood by-Thich
the abfentee drhn has not sackened but has stimulated
which the drainage acts and nAvgat n laws OF the
Imperial Senate. have not deadened but nyigorated
that favored and privileged and pa.ronzed business is
the lrsh ccifin makers
Again, in a speech at Belfast on Nov.
Is, l847, Mr.. Meagher said
How do you explain this fact that, previous to the
enactment OF the Union In thousands Of factories "
closed up there many evidences of an industr-
Gus deposition ! cannot through them all-but,
take one or two. Dublin, with It's nnetyone masts r
manufacturers In the wooden trade, employing ,933
hands; Cork, with Its forty employers in the same
trade giving employment to :, SEQ hands Bandon your
old southern ally with its camlet trade, producing up.
ward Of 100000 year; were these no proofs OF an
active spirit seeking in the rugged paths of labor for
that gold out of which nation It's purple robe
and molds lie scepterf cite those towns-I could
cite hurdi ed other towns-Limerick, Roscrea, Car.
rick SUR kikenny- cite them against the MON. >
In the same speech, in recounting the
wrongs Ireland had endured at the hands
of the British Government he said
"Thus H. that the grant in aid Of your linen
facture has been Withdrawn Thus il IT, that the grant
10 aid Of the deep fisheries has been withdra
Thus 1t u.s. that e protcre duties hare been repealed Ia
spite Of the remembrance Of the principal maluac'ur.
ers Of Ireland
Ard on the same occasion at Belfast,
Mr.. Meegher quoted the following facts
from previous writer in illustration Of his
own views in reference to the effect which
free trade with England had exercised
upon the condition of his native country:
"The exports and imports, far they test of
decay Of profitable occupaon-so far as the exports
and imports are supplied from the parliamentary re
turns-exhibit eXtraoTdiIery evidences OF the cOnd
ton of the laborng classes. The importation Of fax
seed (an evidence of the extent OF most important
source OF employment) was-In 1890 339,i5 barrels !;
$500, 32772I barrels; 1885, 400, ass barrels. The I'M
por,ation of silk, and thrown, was-1u $780, 9209l
lbs. 1900 1900 lbs. 1880, $3.50 lbs OF unwrought
iron-ln $780, 227l tuns in 1900 1921 tuns In 1890
S7l trus. Formerly we spun all our own wooden and
worsted yarn We imported in 1870 only 2,29f lbs. In
1s00, 1so0 lbs in 1926, 662,5JO lbs.-an enormous IT.
crease There were, | understand, upward of thirty
persons engaged in tie wooden trade in Dublin who
have becon bankrupts since 1921. There has been,
doubtless increase In the exports of cottons The
exports were-In $500, 9l47 yards 1926, 1873 573-
TheeXports OF cotton from Great Britain Elm 1929
4025lI 1876 yards value 25l0 24 which will give the
value OF cotton exports at something less than
quarter Of a mllon-poor substitute for our linens,
which the Province Of Ulster alone exceeded 10 value
two millions two hundred thousand pounds. 10 fact,
every ether return affords unequivoca proof that tho
main sources of occupation are decsvely cut oil from
the main BODY Of the population of this country. The
export Of live cattle and of has greatly increased
but these MATERIAL there Is ittle more labor In
the production OF an OK than the occupation OF him who
herds and houses him; hi, value the rent OF the land
tho ~ NJ fNeda yyhl opffal
value Of cotton, nen pottery will require for its
production the labor OF many people Tor money. Thus
the exports of the country now are somewhat under the
value Of the exports thirty years since but they employ
nothing like the number Of people for their production
employment IL Immensely reduced-pOpulati9n In.
creased ihreeeghths Thus IN this transition from he
state Of nn)actUring population TO an agricultural
mass of misery poverty, and discomfort Is created.
Again in last Saturdays Truth Teller, a
bitter organ Of LocoFoc oism and British
free trade, we find the following brief but
most instructive paragraph:
1.-THE CoBgrega,od Trades of Limerick have passed
fropg resolution against the importation of English
cabnetwork 10 the great prejudice of the local manu-
features, witch is superior, though not so cheap"
Here, then, Irishmen is decisive evil
dence and irresistible argument, added TO
your own experience and observation, to
shsw you what a calamitOus influence
British ree-trade, and the consequent mo-
nopoly by England of manufactures and
commerce, have bad upon the welfare OF
Ireland. Before the establishment of that
system, Ireland was prosperous, and the
happiness and power of her people were
steadily increasing. But Irish industry
was sacrificed to British domination and
British monopoly in the words of Meagher,
it fell " before the crushing influence of
foreign competition; )" and the result is
, written in the tears and the blood of Ire
lands noblest sons it is seen in the death
and the exile of millions Of the Irish people.
But it is not in Ireland alone that the
grasping spirit of British monopoly seeks
TO erect its fatal sway. 1t dreams of uni
versal subjugation; it hopes for the day
when England shall be the workshop and
the mart of the world, ana when all nations
will be constrained to resort thi.her to pay
the same tribute with which Ireland has
been drained TO ruin.
This domination was gained over Ire
land by means of the Act Of Union, under
which all protection Of Irish industry was
destroyed. In the United States, it is
sought in the name Of Free Trade, IN
der which Protection to American In
dustry is destroyed. in order that Britain
may fatten by our decay.
That system, called free trade, was in
o eEcatmeasure established in this cOun-
try in the year 1916. So far, its effect is
essentially the same as that described in
heaboye from Meagher's speeches.
Our Industry is deeply wounded; facto-
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