The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-10-26
A Lesson of History.

gether. The United States and Can
ada are side by side. Ireland at one
time, as our readers all know, had a
tariff against England, just as we at
the present time have a tariff against
the United States and the world. When
the Irish people were asked to JON
England they were told what great
COMMERCIAL advantages would flow
from the union, what a large amount
Of British capital would be invested
there, and consequently that Irish in
dustrial prosperity would be greatly
enhanced. Ireland at that time had a
population of about 100000 against
the great population of England. Pre-
vlous to her union with England, Ire
land had, as we have, prosperous manu-
featuring industries. Before that
union, for instance, the hands employ
ed in Dublin, according to statistls, in
the manufacture of woolens numbered
about 5000 people. In the manufact-
ure Of carpets 72O individuals alone
were employed in Dublin. The result
of the union upon these Irish indus
tries, followed as the union was by the
iDlux Of British goods, as told by the
history of that time in the following
language:
"There are only 682 employed in all
branches of the wooden industry in
Dublin and its vicinity instead of g.
900. The carpet industry can hardly
be said to exist at all" Another eX-
ample of the effect Of free admission of
England upon Ireland in the facts
with regard to the industries in Cork.
Before the union there were 457 looms
there and $500 people in the city en-
gagged IN manufacturing. Thirty four
years afterwards that $500 had dwin-
died to 1856 persons, and a short time
afterwards the trade Of the city, so far
as its manufactures were concerned,
was absolutely gone. The linen INDUS
try Of ireland and the print industry
met with the same fate. All these ill.,
dustries made prosperous and valuable
TO the community by the employment
Of thousands upon thousands of the
Irish people, were ruined, and the
greatest Irishman of his time writing
upon the public reports which had been
collected upon the destruction of Irish
industries, states as follows:
"One Of the most fatal effects of that
measuer upon our trade and manufac-
lures has been the premature with
drawal of the protecting duties where
by Ireland emaciated by the drain of
her resources for four and twenty
years was suddenly left open to a
fruitless competition against the oyer
wbelming capital and influence of
England. The statistics of the times
show that, whereas before the with
drawaI of protection 10000 were max
ing their living, aud acquiring a com
potency out of the manufactures of
the country, about the same number af-
ter protection had been Withdrawn and
Industries ruined, were thrown upon
the charity of the country" Ireland
has made a great number of mistakes.
She has too many agitators and too
much agitation, but with desire to do
Ireland justice no one will deny
that she never recovered from the de-
structiOn of her industries. By a ju-
dicious system of encouragement of
a divercity of industry, which gives
employment to our people, Canada has
been made to be a prosperous country.
We feel sure Canadians will not do
away with projection until they are
fully satisfied that the proper time has
come when we can throw down the
barriers with a certainty that we shall
not be crowded. out of our own mar
kets, andthat we shall be able to share
to at least measurable extent the mar
kets of the world in competition with
the producers of every other country.
In this subject the Canadian farmers
are interested as much, or more, as any
other class of Il citizens. We defy
any writer or speaker upon this ques-
ton to point TO any country which is
a rrralv noetorial nouptrv yvhnen farm.