Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-04-06

people on the west coast consequently
live on the verge of starvation. For
every eight acres under tillsge for crops
there are thirteen laid down In grazing
and five laying waste.
This means that English capital has
con verted the Island into . great stock
farm for the supply Of the London beef
and butter market To this effect the
people have been cleared off the rich
plains Of the interior and driven TO the
side Of the mountains and to the all but
barren soils OF the boys. Capital has
inflicted in our country ALI the horror
that Gro N we'll wrought with the sword
in his time
English capital has done Ireland the
sorest iujury by celebrating her manu-
features. Until 1875 these were sys-
TEN atically depressed by legislation.
U nder the protective tariff adopted by
lGrattan's Parliament they attained Q
rapid and remarkable growth. The
Treaty Of Union in 1901 threw the Irish
market open to EnglAnd's composition
once more.
1t was the time when Napoleon 8
continental system had shut out En-
glands wars from the continent Ire
land was the only market they secured
tn replace the loss. The country was
deluged with English exports offered
at prices with who the less establish
ed and less wealthy manufacturers OF
Dublin, Cork and Limerick could not
compete I; so the factories closed affer q
brief and in effecssal struggle, and the
people went back TO the bad business
Of com petiug with each other for piect
of land.
! Ireland is proeperine," the English
econom ists wrote in those days. He
trade has steadily increased since tn
U MON. She exports far more than sh'
did and sue imports great quantities o
orr manufactures. Free trade ha'
been a blessing TO her" The
figures we're right enough, though th'
inference was q mistake. Ireland ex
ported more because she had 10 buy
the export of food, nearly every manu-
featured article her people used. Sh'
imports more because what she hat
been buying of her own artisans wa
brought in from abroad.
She was paying the heavy cost o
transportation on both exports and i'm
ports, which had been spared her whei
she had the far ner and the artisan II
neighborhoods on her own soil. He
people were now reduced TO uniform: :.
Of occupation, with the certainty tina
any failure in the product Of their in
dustry would plunge them into ruin
The country had entered upon the
dow mill road, VIII ca led to 1916. Their
were intimations of coming calamity II
slight famine, but these were over
looked. English statesm anship was to-
much occupied with the maintenance
of Protestant. sscendancy TO heed them
And at last the crash came, the stat
: of life was broken, and hundreds o
thousands lay down 10 die. For fort,
: years this state of calamity was con
tinued, driving the Irish people away
from the land they love, with passion
ate affection. This is dark side fol
free trade in Ireland, but IL is true
one, and what free trade has done fol
Irel and, it will do for the United States
when it ge.s a strong foothoid. Alarm
ed at last the English Parliament hai
appointed a committee 70 inquire int.
the natural resources and present con
dition of manufacturing and productiv
+, industries in Ireland. Bat for man
= years past the Irish people, not il
i select committee, but committee c
! the whole, have been investigating thi
d very matter, and their verdict is ths
5 British free trade will not do for Ir'
\ land