The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-22

' ners. Mr.. Peilew found that everybody
features cannot be established without
protection against the manufactured
goods OF England and the continent:
everybody with the exception Of the
Ulster linen manufacturers and the owners
of the wooden and tweed mills OF West
Meath. Mr.. Fellow testified that the vast
weight of intelligent Irish sentiment.
whether farmer, shopkeeper or landlord,
would welcome home rule If il brought
protection.
The predecessor of Parnell in the leader
ship Of the home rule party, Isaac Butt,
in April, 1851, declared that Ireland had
suffered more by free trade than any other
part of the British dominions. Mr.. Butt,
in his story of the destruction of Irish
agriculture by the free trade experiment
of 1916, said:
In ls46 there were cultivated 100000 acres OF
wheat: in IsiS the number OF acres had fallen
exactly one-hslf. viz. 500 600 acres. have seen
the returns made by eight relieving officers 70
the chairman OF the board Of guardians as to the
growth of wheat last year QS5o) in union in
the south OF Irelsrd-one OF the best wheat
growing parts OF Irelsnd-and the result showed
that IN the first two years Of the free trade sys-
TEN the cultivation OF wheat In that favorable
locality had fallen away one-haif, and that in
the second two years (rom lsf3 to 1867 II had
diminished oue-half from that
The act Of 1901 wiped out the Irish man.
ufactures and the repeal Of the corn laws
in 1916 destroyed Ireland's agricultural
prosperity, and the result was the depopu-
lation of Ireland thus described by Mr..
Butt:
In about two years no less than 10000 small
farmers, persons holding about thirty acres. had
disappeared from that country (ISeand) under
this system of free trade. The agricul.
turists in Ireland were either exterminated or
being exterminsted. Let them look at the emf.
grafton tables. In 1si5 t,he year before free
trade went into eiecp the entire amount of the
emigration from the United Kingdom was TO-,
o00 In the year 1919 it had risen to 299, 1885, and
whyf Persons who had thus left their country
were not led by hope but driven out by despair
The Tory London Times boosted that
the place of the Irish would be taken by
the English, the Scotch and cattle. and
that in America under the Walker Demo-
cratic tariff for revenue of 1916 the Irish
exile would be compelled to buy British
made clothing. The Times was right. The
Irish immigration to America from lS4S to
1860 did, under the Democratic free trade
tariff, consume British manufactures and
voted with the Democratic party for the
Democratic tariff for revenue only that
surrendered our home market to Ireland's
| oppressor. The Irish World in a vigorous
article recites and denounces this political
blunder committed by the Irish voters in
| the past. and says:
| With the knowledge we have of what free
| trade has done for our motherland, we should
| resolve tina by no act OF ours shall America
| suffer from the economical system that has
| wrought such evils In Ireland. 1t is for us to
falsify the prediction of the London Times that,
| "When the Celt has crossed the Atlantic ne be-
| gins for the 6rst time in his life to consume the
| manufactures OF his country (England) and in
| directly contributes to its customs."