The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-18
Free Trade.


heard their fathers speak of the times when trade -four
ished in Ireland and when Irish ships plowed the
bearing Irish manufactures to foreign lands. There
was time when the music of the loom made the
try vocal and the "ho heave no p of the sailors unree
ing the canvas rang in the pleasant breeze that bore
the manufactures of Ireland to the colonies Now the
cities of Ireland rotting by the sea, and the "ho
heave no !" of the sailors drowned in the wall of the
people passing away in tears and poverty from the land
England killed Irelands manufactures, and country
whose manufactures killed is good dead itself
Ireland greater in manufactures than Eng
land, and could undersell her in all the markets
of the world. England then made laws protect
ing her domestic industry. She prohibited the i'm
portaton of such goods she could raise and manuac
She forced her colonies to buy her wrought goods
at high prices and to sell their material exclusively
to her at her own prices She excluded Ireands goods
from England and her colonies and forbade the export
of raw materials from the colonies to Ireland
We shall in future issues endeavor to lay before
readers at length, the in which Irelands
manufactures were destroyed, for the game is
being played in America to-day and if successful the
factories and foundries of America will yet become the
nests for owls, as those of Ireland have become.
England, that now wants Free Trade" long main
tanned protective and prohibory tariff which pre-
vented the importation of manufactured Irish goods to
England and the expectation of the material to
Ireland"
When Irish manufacture was totally destroyed, and
England the only workshop of the British Isles
she magnanimously repealed her high tariff" and
cried, and is crying to this hour "Free Trade"
She used all destroy her neighbors, buying
up our Irish Parliament and public of all sorts,
newspapers magazines, etc. Gold nothing, then, to
her. if it ruined nation and from that nations ruin
would rise British supremacy Gold is nothing to-day,
provided that for every dollar spent in bribery and pur
chase she ten in the future coming into her Golfers
Our able contemporary, the Chicago Tribune-by the
way of the only with few insignificant excep-
tions Republican papers in America that hoists the
Democratic banner of Free Trade" at its headtakes
to task for advocating protective tariff for Amer
lean manufacture.
AS there is argument in the Tribne's Free Trade
articles that could "pass muster" before school boys
there is not much necessity in replying at length
The editors of that paper of too much asute
ness to believe in " Free Trade" and consequently
when try convince others to believe what we
convinced they do not believe themselves there be
no heart in the arguments We say-and the man who
cannot see the matter in the light is blind indeed
that without protective tariff America be-
come manufacturing nation England, with her i'm
capital cheap labor, established manufactures
powerful commerce. able and cunning statesmen, ETC..
flood this country with manufactured goods of better
quality, and at less than half the price for which the
goods can be manufactured here.
The Tribune says:
import British fabrics under monstrous tariff
than we did few years since when it but onefh part
high as at present In the face of this proec
on lE IRISH REPUBLIC that there Is distress
IN New YORK clty business dull; wOrkmen
are out OF employment wives and children suffering sore
privatlons m-owners of New England contracting