Daily Republican., 1884-01-24
kISHM VIEWS.
pOsvR THE FOLLY Or
J pARROT CRY or
FREE TRADE.

PARROT CRY or
FREE TRADE
owing Ia the full text Of
hs editor Of tho Manchester
Courier on " Protection OF
pu."
The operatives Of Lancashire
far to look for an example o.
r fate will be If they follow
!, of the Golden Club, and si'
their markets are slipping
grasp. Let them turn theil
he sister Isle. What is the
he ruin of Irs'and:P Why |.
a, inter opes inopes ? Why
only nation In the world,
he only one, that 10 steadily
the scale Of nations ? Look
er millions OF acres OF waste
liable land her ruined ooln.
4 manufacturers her houses
ted, her villages deserted
/. inuuboriination, insecurity,
king uudisturbed through the
people cry tor work and
but IDLE, ragged, psuper.
deriving a wretehsd existence
Icnliivated land, flying from
btry ike lot from the cities OF
. the cause of this great ruin ?
that a race OF 5000, 600 or g.
prople, in no degree whatever
) the oth r races Of mankind,
rrly stepped boldly along the
huay o, progress and civilizN-
now rtpitly shrinking back 10
rness OF harbarism and decay ?
s the cause Of the ruin of Ire
is very 8 mple. 1t is what
style Free Trade, and nothing
8 over competition. II Is be-
elaud for fifty years has been
anuiacture everything cheaper
bad, and has force,i her cheaper
b the Irish markets, and at the
y excluded Irish goods from
harnets. 1t is by that means
Killed ev,ry industry in Ire
ish industries we're DESTROYED,
aud WAS ruined by unfair
(ompetitiOn, and this is exactly
appening TO English indus.
bgltsh industries are receiving
|pds of Europe and America,
be- same treatment Irish indus
we'd from England.
bis RUIN FeREsHADowED.
manufacturers are excluded
(erican aud European markets,
rlcan and European nianutac-
bodS are forced into English
What reason is there TO doubt
can there be any doubt-that
Simllar industrial conditions
vii! suffer the same industrial
hJs fallen on Ireland? In
untry in the world, out OF
il is preached aloud, rs the
cn Of political economy, that
uotria! community The inter
busumers and producers are
h~h pull Il tie same boat /;
! sink or swim together. IL
dr Bright and his followers to
h iata nonsense, that the in
y consumers and producers
Cu!y not identical, but were
anlagUnistiC not Ouly did
fh, aiasl with ruinous success
lbt economical heresy, but they
persuaded the producing
Osc who earn their daily bread
sweat of thar face, that In
the interest OF the consumer
pcedc that Of the producer.
Industrial community there
Lard and iaet line between
y and producers tits imp0s-
u are, III some"ay or another,
pr indirectly, cOLaumtIs, and
some way or another, direct
lrtctlS, producers. Isis folly
pt 10 draw a hard and last line
consumers and producers,
ch a line cannot exist but il
pniic philosophers viii insist
ing his ne hey can only
n one pldce-beiwecn those
hAtd incomes aud thUse who
hen, how will their theory of
llol in'crc, Is OF the Consumers
? test ? Thee are In Great
n'y 1880, coo ont of a yopnla.
OOU, $50 with fixed ino0m Of
Il year, ahn there ar. So
ii oul liked incomes, or with
olIir- OF less than ElCO "a year
tore, II You compare III, rela-
h'fNut those who are truly
,iLd those who are c0nsuner..
'h"I" ar" thirty producers to-
lrTnIrr. So much Tor the non.
acrali ing the interests Of IN.
= " The wealth Of "a nation
O"Ht y hat 1t produc.s," says
"H'r PrOteC', extend, eu.
d1rtt"n in every possible
been aud is, the cry OF every
community in the world, OK.
Iand but in England our
,SJlons have replaced this
aNl'm with the foolish para
take care Of consumption and
c'Ion take care ofitself." For
f'y S'ars the. orking classes
e' their heads to this ridicu.
le' There are signs, I hope, that |
''hl!hg TO their senses.
kkOr cry on r,yrr,,ns
~ '"ihi'''
ness cheapness, cheapness and
poh THESE have been the par
oi Tree traders and excellent |
y are for the 100000 lucky
hiN with their fixed incomes Il
about the 32,70O,OOO without
mes? How does it affect
" bat does On.uetitiOu and
mean in their case ltl
ip~~it means that wher by
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