Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-20
THE APPEAL TO EGAN.

Free trade" in the Golden sense of un- restricted English competition and the re- mOval of import duties never had more than corporals guard of Irishmer in it's favor and that corporal's guard was always of the Castlereagh stamp. MT Egan has shown conclusively how Irish mauufac- turers were crushed out by its adoption after the union act was passed. Water- bury Exchange.
 Was the immortal Henry Grattan of the Castlereagh stamp? We find the Irish par liament, led by Grattan, enthusiastically adopting a plan of reciprocity between England and Ireland by which each was to repeal the duties imposed on the pro ducts of the other, and even agreeing to make a contribution to the imperial govern ment as consideration for allowing the plan to go through. But the proposition was denounced from every portion of Eng land, and the English parliament was force to rejec t it. Wages were lower in Ireland than they were in England, and the cry was rais ed that, if the English markets were thrown open to Irish com petition, the wages of workingmen through out England would have to be reduced to the Irish level, or English manufacturers would be forced to transfer their factories to Ireland. The Irish people and the Irish leaders believed that free trade was the better system for their country, and Irish Americans of the present day will hardly feel indebted to paper that describes these leaders as of the Castlereagh stamp. Mir Egan has not touched on these points it would not serve his purpose to do so.
 Irish manufactures were not crushed out by the union act because that act abolished the tariff tax between the two countries. Foreign despotism, the curse of British misrule that laid tribute on every foot of Ireland's soil, was greater source of ruin than free trade between the two countries. And no one knows this better than MT Egan, as is revealed by his writings and public utterances when his patriotism was not dimmed by American political partisan ship. The discovery of steam, the use of power looms and other labor-saving machinery which produced enormous changes in the methods of manufacture contributed to the decline The English had iron and coal at their very doors, and had the capital necessary to avail them selves of their opportunities. The Irish people had not these natural opportunities, and as Leople misruled, cruelty oppressed socially, politically and reigiously, prevented by legislation and other ways from perfecting themselves in the arts of mechanical progress, they had neither the spirit, the energy nor the cap ital needed to adapt their factories to the new order of things. They were paying smaller wages and they were turning out a smaller product, for they continued to use hand power when the English were using steam, and so they were forced to go down in the unequal strife. But to maintain that free trade between the two countries was the 1uin of Irish industries would be like setting up a claim that interstate competition is a source of destruction to American industries
 But there is no effort being made to set up free trade in this country. A reform of the tariff that will still leave a protec- tion higher than ever obtained before the civil war cannot in justice be termed free trade. The republicans themselves, through their presidents and leaders and party platforms, have acknowledged the need and advisability of reform, and they are shouting free trade now simply to obscure the real issue and befuddle the voters.
 The democracy ''has entered on no crusade of free trade"
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