Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-08
Grant In the Green Isle.

Ex-President Grants visit to Ireland has
proved a most brilliant success. At every
point he has been received with all the
hearty enthusiasm characteristic of the
Irish, save at Cork, where Catholic Jealousy
led to giving him the cold shoulder. At
Dublin he had perfect ovation, and his
speech was the longest and best we have
ever seen of his making. Having referred
to himself as a citizen of that city, the rare
honor of the " freedom of the city" having
been conferred on him. he intimated, amid
much laughter and cheering, that he might
go to Dublin one day and run against Bar
rington for mayor and Butt for Parliament.
He warned those gentlemen that he was
generally troublesome candidate. Passing
to serious matters, the General said ave
have heard some words spoken about our
country-my country before | was natural
lied in another. We have a very great
country, prosperous country, with room
for great many people. We have been
suffering for some years from very great de-
preston. The world has felt it. There is
no question about the fact that, when you
have forty-fve millions of consumers such
as we are, and when they are made to feel
poverty, then the whole world must feel it..
You have had here great prosperity, because
of our great extravaganza and our great mis-
fortunes. We had a war which drew into
it almost every man who could bear arms,
and my friend who spoke so eloquently to
you few moments ago minister Noyes)
lost leg in it. You did not observe that,
perhaps, as he has wooden one in place of
it, When that great conflict was going on
we were spending a thousand million dollars
year more than we were producing, and
Europe got every dollar of it. 1t made for
you a false prosperity. You were getting
were cashing them yourselves. That made
great prosperity and made producers beyond
the real necessities of world at peace. But
we finally got through that great conflict,
and with an inflated currency which was far
below the specie you use here. It made our
people still more extravagant. Our specula-
tions were going on, and we still continued
to spend three or four hundred millions of
money per year more than we were produc-
ing. We paid it back to you for your labor
and manufactures, and it made you APP
parently and really prosperous. We, on the
other hand, were getting really poor, but be.
ing honest, however, we came to the day Of
solid, honest payment. We came down to
the necessity of selling more than we bought
Now we have turned the corner. We have
had our days of depression. Yours is just
coming on. | hope it is nearly over. ON
prosperity is commencing, and as we become
prosperous you will too, because we become
increased consumers of your products, a:
we'll as our own. | think it safe to say that
the United States with few years more Of
such prosperity will consume much more
than they did. Two distinguished men have
alluded to this subject. One was the Pres
ident of the United States, and he said thai
the prosperity of the United States woulc
be felt to the bounds of the civilized world
The other was Lord Beaconsfield, who seem
to me to see as far into the future as an,
man know, and he says the same as Pres
ident Hayes."