Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-22
0CONNELL ON THE TARIFF.
Views of the Great Emancipation.
ON Tariff Reform.
Ireland Shown to Have Been Cursed
by Protection.
Free Trade Advocated for IreIand's
Good.

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Irishman, delivered the following
speech in denunciaticn Of laws SIM
liar to the protective tariff in this
country to-day:
"Your highly respected chairman good
enough to introduce me to you with very short
preface. He did me but justice IN saying that
am and have been, the constant friend OF the
Anti Corn Law-League. tCheers.l am So not
from prejudice and predilecuon, Dut from a
thorough conviction that It's principles are Tor
the good OF the people was IN Ire 70 re
containing jointly population OF upwards OF l.,
100 900. l alIude to the counties of Meath and
Cork / represent in Parliament the latter coun-
ty which contains an agricultural population OF
10000. l had no means OF purchasing their
votes, or of intimidating them in any way.
possessed no landlord influence TO overule lEelr
convictions; my election cost me
not single shilling and majority OF leo votes,
among an agricultural population, sent me TO
Parliament, knowing well my senIlnent =; WIN ad
termined enemy of any tax on the bread OF tne
people. loud cheers. Nay more; not only
knowing that had announced this opinion, but
had given my reason SO often thatI had convlnc-
ed every one of them; and this result has iolloW-
ed my election-the agriculturalists have not at
oh, yesl they did try one. and they were defeat
ed. Laughter. My Lord Mountcastle was pres
emit (Groans and hisses.l Poor gentleman, he
c Sss of Il for he said We Of the nobility
owe debts; we have money TO pay; we nave
mortgages upon our estates; we have lam
lily charges upon US P9Nr d feIw von IN p ay
them, them Laughter What was his an
swer or, rather, what did it amount 10? No
thank YOU said he. will not pay them, put the
working classes of England shall pay them.
owe money, and Others shall pay II. get a hlgh-
er price for my corn under the present system;
am disposed to be very good landlord ana
would reduce my rents if could afford it; but as
l owe money, will keep up my rents on my ten
ants, sell my corn where it must be bought at my
price, and out of the high price thus eXtorted
will pay my debts when choose Great cheer
ing. There was on ~ one proposition when was
perfectly certain: that he will have the highest
price for his corn; but as to the payments, tney
will remain in what the learned call the paulo-
post futurum tense; that is it Will happen one
time or another. Laughter And then, again,
no later than yesterday, out comes the Duke OF
Northumberland, and says in proclamation 10
his tenants, you must get up leagues in favor OF
the Corn law, for these exceedingly consplring
wretches, the Anti-Corn League. tell you that II
e cav o h
Laughter do not believe him, [cheersl and
think cdn prove that he does not believe him
self Now, would it not be mighty pretty thing
to see Duke on table, obliged to acknowledge
that he did not believe word that he himself
said? [Laughter.l Now will show you that he
does not believe 1T because ne said, we mus
protection? Protection means an additional
sixpence for each loaf; that is the Irish OF it;
Cheers If he had not protection the loaf would
sell for TO- but if he had protection II would sell
for To- Protection is the English for siXpence.
And what is worse it is the English for an eXtorted
sixpence. The real meaning of protection, there
fore is robbery !-lcheers robbery OF the poor by
the rich. GCheers. For what signifies the quantity
of loaves that are consumed in the Duke of
Northumberland's establishment? To be sure he
pays the additional siXpence, but well he may,
tof not one tho4sapdth part of his expenditure
consist in the PURCHASE of bread but Ute labor
ing man and poor widow with her children, nine
tenths oftheir income goes IN the price Oh Dread
they pay ten per cent for every siXpence he
pays, and he pockets the difference. But then,
he is one of your mighty aristocrats OF the land
one of your exceedingly great men whose shad-
ow scarcely dares to follow him. Loud cheers. J
But then. out comes another landlord Leaguer,'
a man of the league for making bread dear an
other protectionist another robbery man; ne
saws Oh, don't make bread cheap: that would
be horrible This man says 1T would be hor-
rible to make bread cheap, for fyou did there
you'd be less employment and lower wages ages
you would get it cheap by getting corn from for,
eign countries, where 1t is grown chegplyJ put
from whence it cannot be imported now. Nhat
is the consequence? If it had been imported, then
for every pounds worth of corn that you obtain
pounds worth of your manufactured goods
would be sent out to pay for 1t. Those who had
not formerly the means of paying your manufac-
lures would now have them, because you would
buy their bread. So that, instead OF lessenlng
employment, il you'd increase II; and then II is
as clear as that two and t,yO make four, that you
must also have increased wages; therefore the
| argument totally fails. Why, speak from my
| own knowledge of Ireland and as one OF the rep
resentatiyes OF Ireland, and say that II the Corn
| law was of any use anywhere, it would be valu-
able in Ireland, which is essentially an agrlcul-
! tural country. If that enactment raised wages
anywhere, il would do so in country purely
AGRICULTURAL But are wages raised in ireland in
consequence OF its existence On, no, lor, UNI
happily, you can get men 70 work there ior four.
pence day. lShame. The laborer thinks he
| Is bountItul benetact0r who pays him slXpence
| a day; and he feels supremacy blessed If he gets
eightpence day.
There is the effect of the Corn law for you II
is in full force III Ireland, and doing all 1t can
| for that country and yet this is the state OF
wages there; and what is worse, there is very lit
| tie employment for the laborer, even ut these
rates. Therefore the people of Ireland, and thos
| of the gentry who take Il conscientious view OF
affairs, and are kind to the people, regard this
| matter in the same light that do; so that, in
stead of Ireland being an impeachment Ill the
way, or one Of your difficulties llauehterl you
have the people OF that country heart and soul al
your side. fCheers. l declare TO you that the
injustice and inlquity of the landed aristocracy
| overcome me with horror and loathing which
can not describe! Why, If there was no Corn
law now existing and the ministers were bold
enough to bring in bill 10 tax the peoples
bread-if they placed, as they do in some despotlc
countries, man AT the door OF the baker shop to
insist one third part of the price OF the bread,
which the baker would of course be oollged 10
charge To the consumer. II this we're attempted
there is not man in the country who would en-
dure such tax. 1t would be OF no avail Tor the
minister to say. want the money for my imam
cial plpns can not make the years account bal,
ance unless / have such tax. John Bull would
roar out, No tax anything else you please, but
you must not tax bread. Yet by the sw'ndllng
scheme of protection, it is called, they do the
very same thing. They tax the bread, not Tor
good of the state, in which you might all equally
particpate-not for protection against foreign
enemy or to keep domestic peace-but for the
benefit Of one particular class. All the rest of
the community are taxed that that tax may not
go into the purse OF the public, but that Il may
go into the pockets OF private IndlYtduals. Hear,
hear.l
Why, really, it is too bad that you should be
called sensible people aud bear this. |. OF course
mean you no disrespect, but there is thick
medicines about it that l cannot understand.
LCheers.
Duke of Northumberland, you are not my
king owe you no Allegiance Will pay you
no tax! Loud cheers. Duke of richmond
there have been Richmonds tiourish1ng before
YOU and you may have connection with Royalty
but you are mol my king yet and no tax shall
pay you no tax. ICheers. Take them altogeth-
er we owe them no allegiance, and We are bound
to stand together, one and all. loud cheersI Ill
peaceable conduct but i'll determinatlon-ln
tranquility, but with tirmness-resolved that we
will not be cheated-that We will not be robbed
that we will not be humbugged tCheers.l l
should like To see one of those great Dukes levy
ing his tax IN kind. Ishould like TO behold him
going into one of the lanes in our manufacturing
towns, TO poor, wretched family, where the
father after a days fatigue, was affecting to have
no appetite that he might leave few more
mouthfuls of bread TO his furnishing children. or
the wretched mother endeavoring to give nutrl-
ment to one babe while another was screaming
because il had no food. / should like 10 see this
great Duke, with his stars and carriers walking
into such an assembly, and laying hold of the
biggest bunch of the loaf, and saying This is my
bread tax, and you may eat the rest of il as you
like Cheers. If the tax were levied in kind
il wCdId not be tolerated; and yet this is exactly
what the Duke does in another way. He does
Iot let you have the pleasure of looking at the
bunch of bread and then take IL away, but he
takes care that you shall not have it, for he
charges YOU that price for the entire Loaf. for
which the man would have got the loaf and the
bunch, IL it h ad not been for him. tCheers.
| repeat the phrase in identical terms, over
and over again, because i want to intx in the
this plunder-this robbery. Increase Of v ages
Why. if ! chose to open the books of polltlC al
economy, and give YOU dates which you have
had before, and particulars with which you may
be conyersant 1 could show that whenever
bread was cheap, wages we're high; that they
were doubly high comparatively, because the
man was able to buy more articles for his money
and thus his wages were doubly useful 10 him
self Yes and all these truths are as clear as the
sun at MONDAY. And we are stalking about
animals on two legs-apparently having no head
hearts oh, put an end 10 the system f. [Cheers.
Why, is not the present Parliament principally
backed by these bread takers Hear, hear.
Did they not send two-thirds of the members 10
the House, not only from the counties by means
of the Caudos clause, but also by purchasing
boruughsG Indeed, two sessions ago heard 1t
admitted from one side of the house and the other
that there never had been so much bribery and
corruption in electing any Parliament rs the pres
ahtanE Rlasn mn ono sid