The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-08-05
A MORO oN A MEleHIY 0uEsIION.

AfSASN - : e,-SNss,'e " WV At1o.A SSs',o--
hon, on April I. isA7, used these impressive
words: ~ & Is
"Tell nae, has England not esten enough |
Of your food, and has she not broken down
enough Of your manufactures, and has she |
not buried enough Of your people! Re-
count fora moment, few of your losses
The cotton manufacture Of Dublin, which
employed $4,000 operatives, has been de-
stroyed. The 3,400 silk looms of the Liber-
ty have been destroyed. The stuff and serge
which employed l,49l opera |
tiyes, has been destroyed. The calico-looms
of Balbriggan have been destroyed. The
flannel manufacture of Rathdrum has been
destroyed. The blanket manufacture OF
Kilkenny has been destroyed. The camlet
trade of Bandon, which produced El50,0e0
year, has been destroyed. The worsted and
stuff manufactures of Waterford have been
destroyed The rlteen and frieZe manu-
factures of Carric-on-Suir have been de-
stroyed. One business, alone, survives!
One business, alone, thrives and flourishes,
and breads no bankruptcy! That fortunate
business-which the Union Act has not
struck down, but which the Union Act has
stood by-which the absentee drain has not
slackened, but has stimulated-which the
drainage acts and navigation laws of the
Imperial Senate have not deadened, but in
vigorated-that favored, and privileged, and
patronized business, is the Irish coffin-ma-
ker's."
Again, in speech at Belfast, on Nov. Is,
l847, Mr.. Meagher said:
"How do you explain this fact, that, pre-
vious to the enactment of the Union, IN
thousands of factories, now closed up, there
were so many evidences of an industrious
disposition! l cannot run through them all
but, take one or two. Dublin, with its
ninety one master manufacturers in the WOOL
en- trade, employing 4,93s hands; Cork, with
| its forty-one employers in the same trade,
giving employment to $500 hands; Bran
don, your old southern ally, withits camlet
trade, producing upwards of f. 100000 year;
were these no profits of an active spirit,
seeking in the rugged paths of labor for that
gold out of which nation weaves its purple
robe, and molds its sceptert cite those
towns--I could cite a hundred other towns
Limerick, Roscrea, Carick-on-Suir, Kill
kenny cite them against the Union" ~
In the same speech, in recounting the
wrongs Ireland had endured at the hands OF
the British Government, he said:
"Thus it is, that the grant in aid of your
linen manufacture has been Withdrawn
! Thus it is, that the grant in aid Of the deep
sea fisheries has been withdrawn. Thus it
is, that the protective duties haze been repealed,
in spite of the remonstrance OF the principal
manufacturers of Ireland"
And on the same occasion at Belfast, Mr..
/ Meagher quoted the following facts from a
previous writer in illustration of his own
views in reference to the effect which free
trade with England had exercised upon the
I condition ofhis native country:
"The exports and imports, as far as they
are test of decay of profitable occupation
so far as the exports and imports are suppli-
ed from the parliamentary returns exhibit
extraordinary evidence of the condition oil
the laborng classes. The importation ol
fiaxseed Gan evidence of the extent of most
important source Of employment was--In
1890, 339, ,745 barrels; 1900, 327, 10 barrels;
4 1886, 469, 9,45S barrels. The importation oil
silk, raw and thrown, was--ln 1850, 92.00l
lbs; 1900, 10 ,060 lbs; 1880, 3,l90 lbs. Oi
unwroughtiron-ln l790,2,27l tuns;in 1900
1921 tuns; in 1890, ,97l tuns. Formerly we
spun all our own woolen and woostod yarn.
We imported in 1870, only 1924 lbs; in
1900, | $50 lbs. I; in 1896, 6S2,7jO. lbs.--an
enormous increase. There were, | under
stand, upward Of thirty persons engaged in
the wooden trade inDublin,who have become
bankrupts since ls2l. There has been
doubtless, an increase in the exports of cot
tons The exports were--ln 1900, 9,l4I
yards; 1896, 7,793,S73. The exports of cot
ton from Great Britain werG--in 1923, 402,-
5l7,l90 yards, value Gl2,5l6,247, which
will give the value Of our cotton exports at
something less than quarter OF a million
poor substitute for our linens, which the
Province of Ulster alone exceeded in value
two millions two hundred thousand pounds.
In fact, every other return affords unequiv.
ocal proof that the main sources Of occnpa-
ton are decisively cut off from the main
body of the population of this country The
export of live cattle and Of corn has greatly
increased, but these are raw material; there
is little more labor in the production Of an
OK than the occupation of him who herds and
houses him; his value is the rent of the land
the price ofthe grass that feeds him, while
equal value of cotton, or linen, or pottery
will require for its production the labor o
many people loF IuOuOJ' nus 'hO SNPoiI Is
of the country now are somewhat under tht
value of the exports thirty years since, bu
they employ nothing like the number of per
sons for their productions; employment l.
immensely reduced-population increaset
three-eighths. Thus, in this trans ton iron
The state of manufacturing population to al
AGRICULTURAL, a mass of misery, poverty, ant
discomfort is created.
Again in last Saturdays Truth Teller, q
bitter organ of Loco-F Focoism and British
free trade, we find the following brief bu
} most instructive paragraph:
"The Congregated Trades Of Limericl
have passed strong resolution against th'
importation Of English cabhet-work, to tn,
great prejudice Of local manufactures, which
: is superior, though not so cheap"
Here, then, Irishmen! is decisive evidence
and irresistible argument, added oyour owl
, experience and observation, to show yo,
what a calamitous influence British free-trad
, and the consequent monopoly by Englan
ofmanufactures and commerce, have had up
on the welfare of Ireland. Before the es
Enlistment of that system, Ireland was pros
porous, and the happiness and power of he
people were steadily increasing. But Iris
industry was sacrificed to British domino
ton and British monopoly; in the words {
MeaPhe., il fell s'before the crushing influ