Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-03-08

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Utterly destroyed By q siapse sss OF
authority Is q tine when tne kflsa Far
lament waz nasE sitting the English
PaYtisruans had suppressed TIE enssf
form Of Irish eomnssce, solely ais
svyzss3iy becanss Il bad 90 s1coeSaed -
20 appear 9 f0En1fssbls ooupssitors and
there ga 10 fsis0n Why similar sssy
ssOaId nos b taken Whenever aly Other
Irish Manufacture began 20 tO1rish.
Ireland wrote sslft, - the 0nly kIsk-
don ! ever heard or read % either Il
ancient or Ho1sru history WHICH ~As
denied ths if3erty Of exporting heT M
tive commodities EE8d mzuBf scs 7res /
wherever they p5@8sed. sIsspt 70 coaH
tres at var with aosiF OE8 PrIncs
or state. YET thls prisiie2s By TIE 81
psriogity Of mere power - rstaso5 Is IN
the most Eaotnsnsyos paris o. e5D-
neFoe; besides "a act of DeTlEaIsoIs TO
which We never ssse1tsi. pssnsd d5zn
upon rs and vigorously sxseSted-
The Eaeilsh utterly suppressed TIE
irish woosea Danufaesars II of5aT 20
reserve that CnAnGfacsure b themselves
To lTfs5 the Irish Ssgs SLOWED 70 export
their White and bgoEn linens. and these
only 70 tie Eaglish COLONIES. bat tbsy
we're nos permitted 70 bring any colo
NAL pro1uee in their ret1rn. This con
ee<sion, which placed ore single branch
Of the linen trade, a. fer a. export
20 the plantations vas eonserneor
ia the position wRice al irlse
good, occapied to the close OF
The. Professionals vas for many years
tks sole compensation which Eagland
made for the disastrous measure OF lts5S'
and II ~ q significant fast that II Was
intended simply for the bensnf OF th7
Protesfauts. The linen trade had bsen
founded OF AZ least greatly extended. BY
French Protestant refugees and hsd
taken root chiefly Ia the Protestant pof-
ti0n Of the island, AID the preamble OF
the bill fer its relief AFTER recifine tue
restrietivs act Of l663 proceeds. Foras-
uuch - the Protestant interest OF Ire
land ought TO be supported by giving
,he utrpost announcement 90 the linen
Manufacturers of that kingdom, with
dus regsrd 10 Her Majesty's good Prot
estant subjects of her saidlkingdoEn, be
il enacted. etc. Bot even the linen
trade was not unrestricted. All dyed or
eh.quered Irish linens were excluded
from the colonies tin 17I7, and were
subject to . duty amounting 90 prohioi,
ton il imported 10 England. Ireland
vas prevented by express enaetnsnts or
by prohIbitory duties from exporting
either beer or malt TO England, from
| importing hogs from any country boz
England, from exporting glass OF which
she had begun the manufacture, 10 any
country whatever, from importing II
| from any country but England.
No one can follow this subject with
ont perceiving how much light itthroWs
upon the latter history Of ireland, ana
| upon the character of its peope. Inc
| successful prosecution of manufacturing
industry depends not merely upon the
accumulation Of capital and on natural
advantages. but also and quite as much
upon the industrial habits Of the people,
/ aud these are slowly formed by many
generations of uninterrupted labor. In
| England the principal forms OF manu-
| facture can BE traced back in an IN
| broken history TO the time of the Tu-
| doris. In Ireland almost every leading
| industry vas checked or annihilated by
law the very moment it began TO as
sumo Importance
The laws which imposed commercial
| disabilities were intended TO imp0ver-
| ish the Irish. Woald that this was the
only charge against England. There
WAS still further debasement aimed at
| human nature itself. This dark and
! daunable page must be unfoided. Daty
| 20 nv subject demands it. What l
shall say is simply quotations from
the same historian he says: The
last great Protestant ruler of Eng
land vas William Ill. who 10 identified
| in Ireland with the humiliation Of the
| Bovine, with the destruction of the
Irish trade and with the broken treaty
| of Limerick. The ceaseless exeEtlons
Of the extreme Protestant party have
made him more odions IN the eyes of
| she peopie than be deserves TO be, for he
was personally far more tolerant than
| the great mai Drity of his contempora-
ries and the penal code vas CHIEFLY en-
asted under his successors. IL req aired
| indeed four or Ave reigns 10 elaborate a
system 80 ingeniouly eontrlyed 70 de
| moralizs, TO degrade, and to impoyeIish
the people of Irsland. By this code
the Roman Catholics we're absolutely
excluded from the Parliament, from the
maoistraey, from the corporations,
from the bench and from the bar. They
| could DOT vote at parliamentary eiee
tons or at Vsstsies. They could not act
as constables. or sheriffs, or iurymen or
serve in the army or Bayy, or become
solicitors, or even hold the position of
| gAEnekeeper or watchmAn. schools
we're established TO bring their children
up as Professionals; and II they refused
20 avail themselves Of these they we're
deliberately consigned to hopeless ig
aorancs. being excluded from the Uni
versity and dsbased under crushing
penalties from acting assohool-masters,
AZ ushers. or IS private tutors or from
| sending their ehiidEen abroad TO obtain
the instruction they were refused at
home. They could not marry Protes-
tlnts, and If such q marriage was eeie-
hrated IL was annullsd By law, and the
| priest Who ssiciated might be hung.
They could not bay land or inherit or
receive II a. gift from PTotestants, or
hold life annuities or leases fer more
than thirty one years or any lesss on
such terms that the profits of tue land
exceeded ons-thlrd of the rent. Ii any
Oatholic lease holder by his industry so
| increased his profits, that they
exr sedod this proportion and did
not Immediately make cor
resp snding increase in his pay
menes, any Protestant who gave the
information could enter into possession
OF bis farm. IL any Catholic hsd Sc
1NStAy pNfaIbaGa Ntttktf ND oA0 AtfAcltA1
estate or any other land, any Protestant
| Who informed aaairet him might be-
come the proprietor. TIE few Catholic
iandholders who remained we're de-
pFived OF the right which all othsr
classes possessed of bequeathing their
lands as they pleased. II their sous
continued Catholics It was divided
equally between them. II. however, the
eldest sou consented 10 apostatiza, the
estate was settled Hpen him; the father
from that hour became only a life ten
ant, and lost ali power Of selling, mort
gagiRg or otherwise disposing Of it. II
tie wife Of Catholic abandoned the
religion OF her husband she was imme-
distsly free frem hiR controi, and the
Chaneellor was empowered 70 assign 70
her q certain proportion OF heE hus-
bands property. IL any child, how
ever young. pFofes@ad itself Protest
ant, It vas at once tske1 from the
fathers care. ant the ChRncslIos could
obliee the father TO declare upon oath
the value Of his property, both real and
psrsonal. and could assign fer the pres
ent maintenance and future portion Of
the converted child snch proportion Of
thai property ~ the court might decree
No Catholic could be guardian either to
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