The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-02-26

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the grounds of
complaint In Ireland against the operation of
the Act OF Legislative Union is it's tendency to
promote Capitalization, and the conseq1ent
destruction of domestic influence upon Irish
analrs. There is too much justification for this
complaint, and it is q nutritive aliment of the
agitation for Repeal. OF this we have had
abundant evidence at intervals for the last
forty years, for it was exactly this time forty
years ago that Mr.: o'Connell launched the Re-
stances and with the astounding result of the
Meath election still startling the English
mind, that the Comptroller of the Stationery
ONCE throws in his bit of rue into the seething
cau!dron to add fresh bitterness to the elixir
OF discomfort. 1t appears from q recent cor
respondence between the Irish Secretary and
the Irish paper-makers that Mr.. r. W. Greg
turers of paper who wish to contract for the
supply of that article for the use of the pub
4lc departments in ireland, to send at their
sale to the Stationery Office in Westminster
for approval. If upon examination it comes
up to sample, it will be accepted, and returned
TO dublin at the public expense. If disap-
proved, it must be forthwith removed. at the
expense of the owner. If this profound scheme
We're fraught with great public benefit, either
In the shape of economy or of security against
fraud, 1t light be eEpedient to adopt it, even
though calculated to create irritation in Ire
land. But the advantage should be great and
obvious to justify such an innovation at such
mendation on its side to balance it's mischiev-
business. The proposed arrangement is ex-
pensive, offensive, irritating, and perverse-
just such an arrangement as might be expert
ed from the conceited prig who is said to write
lnseient anti-Irish letters in the Pail Mall Ga
sette. The ordinary consumption of paper in
the public offices in Ireland is about two hun
bred tons. The freight of this quantity from
Dublin to London and back is GA a-ton-eaual
to GS00 in tho whole. Why is this cost to be
thrown annually upon the manufacturers or
upon the publcY To effect saving of ESQ
a-year-the salary of au examiner of paper
hitherto employed in Dublin! Mr.. r. w.
Greg must certainly not have read the able
works of his immediate predecessors in the
Office now filled by him. Mr.. MCulloch was
an economist, but he was too canny to expend
fS00 a-year in order to save G15O. We do not
think much of Mr.. r. w. Greg either as phi
1osopher, statesman, or political economist,
but we don't take him for such fool as the is
sue of his order relative to the supply of pa-
per for tho use of the Irish officials upon the
professed pretence, would imply. The chair
man of the meeting of Irish paper-mak in
Inmates clearly enough in his letter to Mr.
Chichester Fortescue their impression that
the real object of the order is to drive the
Irish manufacturers out of the field of compe-
tition, to secure monopoly to tho English
paPer-makers by considerably enhancing the
selling price of Irish papers through the cost
OF transmission to London, and of packing
unpacking, and repacking, to say nothing Of
the risk of rejection and the cost of taking the
goods home again; and, finally, to abolish the
irish Stationery Office. We should like to
know If Dir. II. w. Greg has had Treasury au-
tnority for this proceeding, suggested, we