The morning times., 1897-01-04
Men of Capital.

Guinness S brewery hardly needs deSCrip-
ton. II is probably the best existing
proof that all Ireland needs to make her
u great industrial nation is a few dozen
men of capital and energy. No CONNER
cial company in the world can show such
a-record as that OF Guinness during the
past ten years.
The enormous trade of this firm may be
understood from the fact that their pro-
ducts pay half a million pounds excise
10000 British hrewcrics, they produce
one barrel in twenty OF the total British
brew.
1t takes 6T ,000 acres to grow the 2,5OO,-
900 bushels OF barley tone-third of the
whole produce of Ireland Which they use
annually. They have storage for ,0oO,
900 bushels of malt and 90 600 pockets
of hops; they have nine miles OF water
mains, anu 90 horses: employ 40 hands
to make barrels alone; $500 hands al
together, and have a printing press that
turns out 100 900 900 labels annually.
And they lick creation in making stout.
Another industry in which Ireland eXcels
is linen making. London outfitter told
the writer that every high-class linen shirt,
collar and handkerchief in the London shops
comes from the North of Ireland.
France has a reputation for turning out
a finer quality than Belfast, but the best
French goods are really Irish, and
that amusing story is true CT the Belfast
manufacturers wife, who brought home
some beautiful handkerchiefs from Paris,
and asked her husband why he could not
make goods like them.
Produce of Linen.
On examination he found they We're
part of lot he had recently exported!
The annual produce of linen must be worth
little short Of f15 ,OO0, 900, and the size
of the factories may be known from the
fact that two of the chief Belfast concerns
employ 5000 hands between them.
. Paraphrasing the saying that whatever
is is best we may truly say that what
ever is Irish is good. It's Limerick and
Waterford bacon has one rivai-Wiltshire:
and the quantities of the Irish article
consumed in England are the best proof of
how it is appreciated.
Unfortunately, some Irish provision mer-
chants are, Intentionally or otherwise,
Ieagued together to defame Irish produce;
and they sell the best Irish bacon under
the name of Wiltshire. just as they sell
thousa nds of tons of the choicest Irish but
ter as Dorset and Danish, while to the in
ferior grades, and no doubt to American
products, they give the name Irish. -
Why do not the Irish dairies combine with
the bacon factories, and establish shops all
over Lo ondon?
If the movement were universal we
should soon have halfOf England breakfa ST
ing on Waterford bacon and Tipperary
butter, lunching off Matterson's sausages-
of hich two ounces are equal to pound
of London bread and fat-and dining off
Limerick hams.
There is one Irish product which Eng
lishmen certainly appreciate. even under
it's own patronymic. England drinks
5000 900 gallons of Irish whisky annually.
Even Scotland-and Scotchmen are epicures
in alcohol-takcs 100000 gallons from
across the water.
Best Distilled Whisky.
And this is one of the things in which
all Irishmen agree with their English
neighbors.Tor they practically drink Moth
ing but their own distilling, getting only
10000 gallons altogether from England
and ScotIanet Probably Jamesons whisky
is the best distilled on the whole globe
1t is the highest-priced in the market,
anyhow, and commands as much as los.
/. gallon in bond. The produce of this
article in Ireland, however, does not quite
equal that Of Scotland, chiefly because the