The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-01-15

imperial debt by the Act Of Union. In this
the Britain taxpayer should find food for TO
Election. In six years prior TO the Act Of
Union. when Ireland had still her own Par
lament, her locNl revenue was sufficient for
her national expenditure, except q deficit, the
total about %, 000.0 900 In six years, which
the increasing prosperity Of the country
would have enabled tho Irish Government
easily to wipe out In o short time. But
In 1893. the abolition OF the Irish Gov
crnment and Parliament being determined
by the English Government In the interest
Of English manufactures, q civil war was fo-
mented In Ireland by the agents Of the Gov
eminent; moro than $4,000 men were quar-
tered upon the people. and the expense Of
the national administration was thus extra
ordinarily increased. For this excess Of e.
penditure over revenue English political
conspiracy was directly and exclusively re-
sponsible. When tho Act Of Union was
forced through under these circumstances,
Ireland was dragged into the United King
dom with q debt Of $12. 900, 900, and In sixteen
years after the Act Of Union was passed, tho
government OF Ireland being conducted by
the British Parliament, tho debt for Ire
land was increased to s4s.O 200! This
enormous sum was piled up by the
expenses Of c~onstabulary and military
to compel the country to acluiesce
In the Act Of Union. The interest on this sum
became q part Of theb burden Of the British
taxpayer, and to dull his %sensibility about
the wisdom OF the political course affecting
1t, the imperial debt Of Great Britain was
Jumped with the accumulated debt Of Ire-
land, in express violation Of the terms Of tho
Act OF Union. The Irish taxpayer became
thereafter and Ii still required to pay a por-
ton Of the interest and principal Of the i'm
perial debt Of Great Britain contracted be-
fore Ireland was In the United Kingdom.
Homo rule, therefore, would not only be .
blessing for Ireland, but would relieve the
British taxpayer Of a considerable fraction
Of his present burdens, 30 seriously sggra-
waited for the benefit Of Irish landlords,
They alone have been benefited by the tyr
amy which has cost the British taxpayer 80
dearly. Perhaps even they would admit
that II the Act Of Union had not been passed,
II the Parliament OF Ireland had been per-
mitted to continue Its work In that country,
II the gentry and aristocracy had kept their
fine residences in their own land and spent
In Dublin during the sessions Of the
national legislature the millions they
annually expendin London while Parliament
is sitting, enough capital would have re-
manned in Ireland to prevent its manufac-
lures from wholly dying out. With domes-
tic industries to give the people employment,
money thus kept in circulation would have
steadily improved the general state Of agri-
culture and m Land values, in
stead Of being artiflcially maintained while
famine ravaged the country and population
disappeared by millions, would have had
solidity and p%ermanency. Now land courts
are destroying them in q vain effort to bring
the relations Of legal proprietors and work.
ing occupiers within reason.
Under home rule the revenue applied for
eighty years and more to constabulary and
military would have been applied to recovery
of waste lands, to general and necessary
drainage, to sanitation, to deepening rivers
and sea harbors, to building piers for fishing
Ravens, to loans for semi-publio improve
ments on the lines long approved by British
policy. to education and the moral and So
clal improvement of the people. How differ
ent would DO the Ireland Of to-day had this
been Its historyl
But it is not too late. The effects Of allen
government are too apparent for argument.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, with a recklessness
equalled only by that Of Mr.. GosoHKN, has
asserted that in Ulster, the province as
sumed to DO comparatively loyal to alien
rule, there Is yearly taken up an increasing
quantity Of land for cultivation" Mr.. CHAM
ERnA1N alleged that this statement was
made after the examination Of statistics.
What statistics had he examined2 For hero
are the figures representing land In cultiva-
ton in Ulster for ten years: