The Morning herald., 1876-04-06
IRELAND 40 SHE 10.

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IRELAND 40 she 10.
As evidence Of the greatly improved
condition ofIreland it is stated in Thoms'
almanac, "a modest name for most ex-
haustive annual report upon Irish trade,
industry, agriculture and commerce) that
last year the amount deposited in the Irish
Savings Bank was an increase over the pre-
vious year of e9S0,000. In ten years the
increase has amounted to el2,o67, 900, and
the amount of Savings on deposit in the
various Savings Funds upon the 1st Of
January, 1876, was el21,7ls,0o0, or about
$6oo,ooo,oo0. In comparing this statement
with that of January 1s46, we find the
savings Of the Irish working classes have
increased Eve fold in thirty years,-this in
the face Of decrease Of three millions in
population. The consumption of spirits
in Ireland bears curious ratio to the ia
crease Of savings. In the past ten years
the decrease in the consumption Of liquor
has been twenty per cent, the amount Of
liquor net thus drank turned into
money, is almost the exact equivalent
Of the sum added to the Savings Bank
account of the Irish workers. Pauper-
ism has fallen far and away below
that Of England or Scotland, and now
hardly exists in Ireland, save in the form
ofstreet begging, by cadgers and medicants,
who are professionals, and until the whole
tribe is stamped out, will follow begging
not through poverty. but as profitable
business. Education by means Of the Ma
tional and Christian Brothers schools. is
now so general that within the past ten
years, the educational status Of ireland
has leaped up alongside of Belgium and
Holland standing in the second rank
after Prussia, Sweden, Denmark and Nor
wsy,-and in the same group as Belgium
Holland and Scotland, leading the latter
nearly three per cent. in 1874, and far in
advance Of England, which strangely
enough has retrograded not only relatively,
but actually in her educational standard
in'the last decade. There are many causes
operating to produce these bene6cent re-
suits; social, economic, and political. The
great decrease Of drunkness, the equally
large growth of many branches Of manu-.
facture, must be credited wish these conse'
quences. Lace making has become an al.
nost universal industry in the midland
and southwestern part of the Island, where
the Celtic element, with its aesthetic talent
most predominste. The manufacture Of
machinery, the building Of iron steamship
and the immense linen production Of VI
stsr, radiate from Belfast, through tn
northeast. Cambrics, nuch Of it sold il
this country as French, and hosiery, ar
made in yearly increasing quantities, il
the vicinage Of Dublin, and the adjacen
town Of Balbriggan.
1t would be unwise, and unfair not t.
examine the political causes Of the growtl
Of Irish prosperity.
> The criminal neglect of England du-
ring the famine Of lS46-47, by which 2,
100000 Of human beings died Of starva
tioa and typhus, made her answerable t
the public opinion Of the world. One o
the unanswerable counts in the worlds ii
dictment sgainst England, were the ship
freighted with the magnificent centribu
tions Of the American people. Another
was the collection made at Mecca, by
pious Mohamedan pilgrim, for the stal
wing IRISH Giour, as one of Gods cres
lures. England playing the role of Re
!, former in India, China, Italy and ou
Southern states. was SO .jeered, snubbe
and laughed at.-as hypocrisy, that it b.
came necessity to face the "Irish Que
tion." As all great questions 80 back.
an agrarian one, the land tenure was Ar
looked to. 1t was found that in Irelaa