The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-17
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EdtcrIsl Opinions Of the lhadIng soornals
upon Current Toplos-compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.

HOW BRITISH FREE TRADE DE-
STR0YED Irish FREE TRADE"
From the Chicago Bureau . =
That the Irish RsvoT5Ji01ists of 1910, ,9S.
we're fully justified in dhe Intensity OF their
demand that the trade of Ireland should be
freed from British legislation will fuily aps
pear by few extracts from Gitchells His
tory of Ireland, from. the surrender OF the
Irish cause at Limerick to the power Of tWii.
liam of Orange down to the present time.
We begin at page 49, '"..'' '.,'"4 ="
t,sThe English were not disposed TO let their pre-
dominance remain witlont rTaeltsal fruits, as an
Eade or Ireland During inc lew frst years OF VIII
iiams reign, there being tnen abundance ofshcep
In Ireland, and also much cncap labor, cQnsdera-
BILE progress was made IN the manufacture OF wool
len cloths. These fabrics were exported IN some
snsS 70 oTesn enasa aI n Il, 9asSss
Che English. But England was thea using great ex-
tions 70 OBTAIN 1ns dare o. ,es
bragg. It is true that the woolen trade in Ireland
and all the profits Of its export and Ne were 10 the
Parliament In Dublin would fain have extended and
protected it II they had been psrmitted. But here
9 SsrgnSg 6 lit
houses OF Lords and Commons sddressed King
be found aeaiisS the obno xous trade in ffeiaSd
The Lords, after detailing the intolerable oppres-
tiious people in England, expressed themselves
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES we most humblyJ beseeeh your
6ieased. In the most public and eneotual way that
Ihay be, to declare to all your subjects of Ireland
ba saS Ssass ISs Sss q as yS9er
l1oked upon with great jealousy by all your subjects
N this kingdom, and IL not timely remedIed, may
occasion very strict laws totally to prohibit and sup
sfProbsbIy 90 more shameless ayowal Of British
Sreediness was ever made even, by the Parliament
9f England. But the King replied at once that ,he
would do all that IN him lay = to discourage the
.
itThe Irish Parliament was now also assembled in
Rpelins1 The Bari Of Galway apdl two others were
lords justices, and thev, PURSUANT to their instrue-
lions, recommended 10 hatliament to adopt meaos
sr putting stop @ to the @ %ooIen s manniac!qre and
dress neekly replied that they shall heart " en-
deavor' to encourage the linen trade; ana az % the
w0oen, they tameiv express t1eir hope TO lnd suc1
temperament that the same may not be injurious
Y.TRe YT temperament they found was in the acts
Which were passed in the folloYing year, 1929,
which mn1tely regulated everything feiating to
soths, was prohibited except 10 England inland and
Wales, The exception was deusive, because heavy,
SanS 10 sn
Irish wool thereafter had To be senG Elgisad in "a
rSw state 10 be woven in YORKSHIRE anu even this
English port, earnstable, as the only point
where II could legally enter; Al attempts at
peded also by the navigation laws, which had long
Rfohibted all direct trade beiween Ireland and the
gould be carried 70 Ireland until after it should have
hrst entered an English port, and been unloaded
there. The object Of these laws, of course was to
secure to English merchants and shipownefs mo.
nopoly Of all such trade and they had the desired
erect, so that few years afterwards the Dean OF
ST. PatraGks tSwifD could truly write -tThe eonve-
Henoy OF ports ana harb0rs, which nature hath ben
stowed so iiberaly upon this kingdom. is OF no
plore use 10 us than a beautiful prospect to man
Shut up IN dungeon man, ,,y- f-,.,,lrr.-y1'
THE effect of thus prohibiting the woollen
manufacture in Ireland was to remit the
whole population to agriculture, and such
were the restrictions on the export of agri-
cuItuIal products that scarce anything could
be exported but wool, and that only to Eng
land. While agriculture was really hampered,
it'was still the sole resource, since navigation
and manufactures were absolutely made
crimes Hence the competition between
tenants to obtain farms increased as the pros
poets of being able to pay the rents dimi-
Gished. Thus, Dean Swift, in q pamphlet on
xTThe Present Miserable State of Ireland,
written twenty years after the passage of the
scts above quoted, says: --=tj tGdt voui oiIta1
,raknother great calamity Is the exorbftant raising
9f,the rent OF ands Upon the liberalization OF all
leases made before the year 1920 thinks
only doubled his rent roll Farms are screwed up 10
arack. rent: leases granted but for small term OF
Il years; tenants tied down to hard conditions, aud
discouraged from cultivatng the lands they occupy
the best adyantage by the certainty they have OF
shall make Thus II Is that nonest Industry is re-
4tiswel n he can cover his family with coarse
bOmeBpun frieze."f agy4 g n fue.o !, 10 ts7 fsf
During ell this time it must be understood
that the Catholics, who constituted two and o
half millions out of the three millions of
arish population, were not only prohibited by
statute from owning any interest in land or
real estate, but even from owning any
c'horse, gelding, or mare, under a penalty of
95," and from educating their children at any
school not under the direction of Protestants
Gan it be wondered that, after centuries of
4uch oppression, such stupid, besotted, blind,
land bigoted tyranny, interrupted almost
1eyeiy year by helpless and hopeless rebel
lions, which were stamped out by the force of
numbers, the Irish race should at last hate
the English name, that that hatred should
have become national sentiment, a part of
the Irish blood, irremovable by compromises,
and that will never pause, nor rest, nor cease
its painful struggles till the God of nations
iand of battles DEGREES between the two races
2 final and perpetual divorce.
Ireland making her own laws at Dublin, as
England makes hers at London. God speed
the day! say we, as Americans. 5,,.5s
Under ali the influences to which we have
referred, the outward evils of subiugation
began to show themselves. Landlords would
NOT live IN Ireland; first, because it was not
pleasant to ba confronted by the misery the
produced; secondly, because their agents
collected higher rents and turned out the
tenants more heartlessly than they could have
done; thirdly, because life was gayer on the
continent, while in Ireland all was misery;
,and fonrthly, because though the whole Catho-
lie population were disarmed by law and
MILITARY force, yet the landlords were not
always safe. Absenteeism, therefore, says
tna.a guvifk carried nvar To fha Oantinant