The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-21

JOY 20 the hearts OF Morrison. Mills or the most
advanced Of our Democratic Golden clubbists.
George III, Statute Atm, Article 8, provides:
That from the 1st day Of January, 1901, all prohi.
billions and bounties on the export of articles. the
growth, product or manufacture Of one country 70
the other. shali cease and determine, and that the said
% the other without duty or bounry on such export.
That al articles. toe growth. produce or manufacture
OF either country mot hereafter enumerated as sub
Ject 10 specific dutiesD. shall from beneeforth be i'm
ported into each country from the other free from
duty. other than such countervailing duties ON the
severai articles enumerated in the schedule NO. j. A
and q, as are therein specified, or such other counter
vailing duties As shall hereafter be imposed by the Par
lament OF the United Kingdom, In the manner herein
after provided: and that for the period OF twenty
years from the union. the articles enunleiated In
schedule No. 2 shall be subject. on importation into
each country from the other, to duties specihed IN
sehedule No. 2. and the wooden nanutactures known
oy the name OF old and new drapery. shall pay, on
importation into each country from the other. the du'
ties now payable on Importation into Ireland
salt ana hops, on importation into Ireland from
Great Britain, duties not exceeding those which are
now paid On importation into Ireland; Aad Goals, on
irpcrta;ion into Ireland from Great Britain shall
De subject 70 bur1sns not exceeding those 10 which
they are now subject.
That calicoes and muslins shall. on importation into
either country from the other. be subject and isbie
thereof from Great Britain into Ireland until the 9th
of Jan. ls0S. snd from and after the said day ths
duties shall be annually reduced by equal proportions
as near as may be In each year so that the said duties
shall stand at 10 per centum from and after the 5th
day OF Jan. 1916. until 5th OF Jan, 1921, and that
eot.on-ysrn aud cotton-twisted shall, on their inpor.
tat;on into either country from the other. DO subject
and liable TO the uuties now pay able on same on i'm
Fortstions there from Great Britain into ireland.
Until 9Th of Jan. ls0s. aud from and after the said
day the said duties shall DO annually reduced by equal
proportion as hear rs may be In each year 90 that all
duties shall cease on the said articles from and after
9th OF January, 1916.
Listen, ys credulous free-traders who hearken
TO tho SIRENS song of free trade. when its advo-
cafes <el you that ~ Ufl imam nm tn our manu-
features the great English market, and that the
adoption Of Golden Club theories will bring
PROSPERITY TO America. Listen how Euglaod's
promises of prosperity TO Ireland have been
fulfilled. John Mitchell says:
The year 1900 saw the act of union. . . . For
twenty years after the union tho country was as sbso-
Lately Frustrated in means and in spirit IS she seems
70 % now and. as a mater OF course. she n1d =
land, Englahd could not live as she had Q right 10 ex
Rset' and The eases compliment Of . f:niiy d,nnsE 10
starvation. In lsl7 the famine was more desperate
than usual. and in the south Of Ireland people fed on
Nesds- In lS22 IT was more horrible still Sir John
Commons. described one parish in which 6fteen per.
Cons had already died of hunger. twenty eight more
were past ali hope ct recovery. and 120 tstill in the
parish where the priest had gone around and admins:
tered extreme JUNCTION to every man, woman and
child of bis Pensioners, al in articulo morris by mere
starvation.
At the date OF the union Ireland's population
was abont 1000. 600. all under the fostering pro-
lection of en- Irish Parliament. fully occupied
more than half at manufacturing indus
tres. the balance at agriculture. All were
well paid for their labor, happy and
prosperous. They lived on a high s,aodard of
dietsry; IS john Mitchell go we'll puts il: They
seditiously consumed their corn ard becf.
When under Article 6. of the act of union. the
glish manufacturers, acting on the plan so
graphically recornmend~d for America . few
years later by Lord Broughsm, and which
would undoubtedly be pu. IN operation here TO-
morrow under q tariff for revenue only ~ssstsns,
flooded the Irish markets with English fabrics,
which were sold at any price TO break dows .aS
crush out the Irish manufacturers In u short
time Irish commerce was ruined. Factories
were closed down. the Danrfacturers and mer-
chants bankrupt, the entire population driven
to seek OF the land q bare subsistence Descrio,
ing this phase. Lord Dutfsrin, ths Goveruor-gen-
eral Of India, says: "What has been the con-
sequence of such q systemI This, that, debsrred
from every other trade aud industry, the entire
Nation fupe itsel; back upon the land With as
fatal an impulse "a when a river current Is sud-
denly impsded, rolls back and browns the val
ley II once fertilIzed." The natural and newt.
alba result Of this condition OF things
a scramble for tie possession OF ANAL farms
aud uuuatural competition that made the pres
ent phase OF lsndlord'sm . possibility.
AS marufaeturers were gradually swallowed
up by English monopolists, rsnts for land. espe-
cially the smaller patches, doubled. and whs.,
between the enormous increase In rents
and the disappearance OF the profits
arising from manufacturing industries.
large numbers Of the unfortunate people wero
reduced from ''sediliously consuming their own
corn aud beef'-under Gratrau protective Par
liamenr--to live, under the heaven-sent system
Of free trade with England, wholly and entirely
on potatoes and milk spd very often, incredible
as It may seem, on potatoes and SAT-; and when
potatoes failed the people starved.
Since TIE infamous act Of the urion which
was forced by England upon Ireland, In the words
of Cnief-iustice Bushs, "from an intolerance
of her prosperity" in other words In order TO have
English trade free from irish competitlop, and
tn enjoy trade with ireland free from Irish pro-
tectivs duties. unfortunate Ireland has been
visited by no less than seven deadly farines.
The English system Ia Ireland. OF which Mon
tesquieu wrote THE horrid code was conceived
by devils. written in human blood and regis
tered In hell gradually drsined the people or
the very life blood of the nation. their money,
until they we're unable to consume the food
their own haris had raised. The wheat, the
OARS, butter. beef. mutton and the pork which
they raised had 10 be sold 20 pay the com peti-
tive rents forced upon them in consequence OF
being. in the words of Lord Duferiu. ''debarred
from every other trade and Industry but agri-
culture.
In 1927 Lord Cloucarry wrote. ''Fsmine from
death we have heard OF, but q famine 10 q plen-
tiful country is ike some other psculiarities
only 20 be met with in ireland. and only since
the union" Tracing from effect TO cause we
find that the terribis famines which have DESC
lated ireland and scattered her children all over
the earth, arose from the repeated failure OF the
potato crop; that the mass OF the people bad
been reduced 10 dependence on the potato
through the destruction Of their splendid manu-
featuring industries, and that the destruction OF
their manufactures was conpassed-and in
tended by England TO be compasssd-by the
free-trade provision OF Art. 6 Of the act of no
ion, the language Of which, in the words OF
Henry Grsttan, was: Buy where you can. and
"a cheap a. You can
That this 10 no fancy sketch Of my own / will
prove from the most ilcontestible sources. The
eminent divine. Rev Father John ORourke p.
p. NJ r. l. A, OF Maypoo,h, Ireland. in bis
valuable work, "The History OF the Great
Irish Famine of A." published 10 1874, Gays:
Another cause for the increased cultivation Of
the potato may be found in the poverty of the
English colony I'm lreland) itself. Willis the
people of whom the colony was composed.
through the Parliament that represented them,
pursued the Catholic natives with unmitiRated
persecution, they were themselves the object of
Jealous surveillance. both by the Parliament
and the commercial classes of England And
after dealing fully with the various t.
made to ruin Irish trade ia the interest
OF the commercial classes Of England,
the reverend historian says: IMPOVERISHED by
ant and all as il was. had TO lower its dietary
standard and cultivate the potato. or, at least,
promote its cultivation, By the use of it.7
A short description from the hostile pen or
Stuart Trench, the agent OF the notorious Lord
Lansdowne, will give the American reader an
idea Of what Ireland suffered from The terrible
famine Of 1s47. In his Realities Of Irish Life