The Irish standard., 1896-02-01
Engfand's Enemiss Everywhers Sur
rounding Her With IS,
vzngoanc "a -53.
lRELAND's WORST ENEMY DESCRIBE
The Rruta. Policy of England Told by
One Of Her States
Continued from last week.

others. Bought them as one would buy
beeyes for the slaughter house The
Hessians in America and Ireland and the
Sardinians (SaTdines done up in English
tiny In the Crimea We're bought for SO
| much per head Often in Napoleons
thine England subsidized nations, bought
ministries, and corrupted officials, and
she will do it again when hard pressed.
|: Her navy must be maintained superior
lin number, if not in efficiency, to that OF
any other ton, no matter at what cost.
To sustain this and all her other estab-
| lishnents a vast sum of money must Oe
procured, and she procures 1t. 1t never
TROUBLES the plant English conscience
| how money is got; it's motto is the cpd
iustffies the means.' More than two
hundred wears ago English pirates scour-
ed the seas, Selling land wherever 1t
could he found no matter to whom 1t pc
Ion ged; they plundered the rich Spanish
galleons laden with gold from Peru and
Mexico and destined for Spain, they rob
bed burned and sacked every city on the
Spanish Main, perpetrat1ng+ crimes SO
hideous that the mere description OF
them. is impossible. Following this the
English government drove the F'rench
out OF India and Canada, the Span1arqs
from Florida and the Swedes from the
Delaware Ut captured every lsland on
the Atlantic and Pacific wherever a foot-
inc. could be had. 1t crossed the Pacific
and stole Australia and New Zealand. 1t
spent minis of money and lost armies OF
men in vain endeavors to conquer Ire
land, Then colonies were planted, ana
peopled by the starving populations OF
ireland and Scotland. All this cost fab
uleus sums Of money, most OF 1t Deing
procured as a highwayman procures his
spoil, at the muzle of the pistol.
Thus generations passed away Whlle
these worldwide crimes were being per
9etrated, but they were merely the pre-
Iiminaries of a scheme which was pre-
nared with the utmost care and prose
cuted with wonderful sagacity. England
was to be the workshop of the world. and
the colonists, and, if. possible, the rest OF
mankind were to be her customers, ana
it must be confessed that the plan worked
with wonderful success. Nature mao pro
vided England with great deposits OIL coai
and iron, and a population when "oulu
work hard live cheap, bear more pr!Va-
ton, do more grumbling and less hgnlins,
for themselves, than any other people Oh
earth. Thus equipped, England pesaA
her industrial career. Wh1le she was &C
cupiea in building. up. her nlanulactures
to enable her to compete with and under
sell all others, she protected them WIN
The most inll,r1rlan laws An act OF parl1a-
,nent was passed in 1887, forbidding,
under heavy penalties, the expectation OF
woolens. The penalty for a first Violation
Of this law was a fine, for a second, the
cutting off the right hand and mailing 1t
on the market cross as warning TO olner
avil-doers. for third offense imprisonment,
and for a. fourth death.
In 1746 the last was changed TO seven
years transportation, which was worse
than death, as many a brave irish paIrlot
knew to his bitter cost. And these barbaf-.
Gus laws which would have disgraced any
nation but England, continued up TO 1904.
Was it on account of their inhH1nanlty or
in consequence of Englands advance IN
civilization that these laws We're abolish
ed? By no means. English philanthropy
lists are never moved by such petty consla-
erations. The true reason was that the
wages of her miserable factory hanus mao
been pushed down SO low that BODY ana
soul could not be kept together Wille
bread was so dear. The cotton anu IRON
lords would not raise wages, because tnat
would lower their dividends, SO working
hours were increased, women were useu
in the mines Ike draft-cattte, children
were driven to work as soon as they were
able to walk. "There are no hoys IN
England" said Dickens, "they are first
babies then they are men," But it came
at last to a point where the work OF an
entire family could not procure the bare
necessaries Of life 1t is hard to go idle
and starve, but 1t is harder to work and
starye also, SO murmur.ngs OF discomfort
began to be heard. Not such manly dem
constructions as have often been seen IN
America Cbefore the reyolution), or In
France or Ireland. There was nothing re-
evolutionary about them; they new
err aimed at overthrowing the
government or system which bore
them down 50 low-aIl their spirit found
vent in attacks on bread stores or i'll burn
ing factories But although there was
nothing more threatening. something mad
to he done not to raise wages Chat was out
Of the uuestione, but to cheaper bread, SO
ia 7849 the duty on corn (cereals) was
abolished. To show what the starving
artisans thought Of this panacea Kingsley
SAYS that they sneered- and gfoWled= at
Cobden's theory and said: 'Cheap bread:
curse him, he means cheap wages. And
they we're correct. -
An era of cheapness always means cheap
wages. But with long hours, low wages
and improved machinery England at
last was able to undeTsell all her rivals,
and free trade was proclaimed with tine
world. But to reap the benefits OF that
system it was absolutely necessary to
break. down whatever barriers OF pro-
tective tariffs the other nations had erect
ed so as to throw the markets of the world
open toEng glands products
About fifty. years prior to that time the
damnable Act of Union forced free trade
on PROSTATE Ireland, and her manufac-
lures were stricken with the paralysis OF
death, so no further: effort was necessary
there. 1t has given England no trouble.
since then But in the rest of the world
there was great necessity for exertion
by England's diplomats; goods were; ac-5
formulating and markets must be found
for them at any price at all. But the
United States being in the best market
in the world here the great and constant
effort is made to procure either free trade
or the lowest duties possible. Lord
Brougharn, in plain, brutal way ex-
planned England's policy, saying: 1T is.
we'll worth while to incur loss upon the
first expectation in order by the glut to
Est;f1e manufactures in the United States
And they have acted on that plan from
that day to. this. Unfortunately England
has. always fnl1n7 here a large number of