The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-01-29

every description; the monopoly of
the latter Holland held for centuries.
Ireland finally made the best cut glass
in the world, and considerable of the
best china. For years she was the
book and music publishing center,
while her inks of every description
were rated the best, and even the
sand, then used in place of the blot
ting paper of the present day, could
not be found elsewhere as good. Lon
don and Paris were dependent on the
workmen of Dublin for the making
of the best jewelry; also copper and
steel engraving, watch seal making
and engraving. Ireland had the music
printing of the world; also she regu-
lated the opera for Continental Eu-
rope, for it was rendered nowhere
better than in Dublin. The judgment
of a Dublin audience determined the
career of many an actor or opera
singer. England finally, from jealousy
and greed, destroyed every industry
in Ireland. The Irish workmen were
driven out of Ireland for want of oc.
cupation, and the greater part emil
| grated and settled in Paris, where
they established every industry for
which France is now noted. The nat
ural resources of Ireland are mex
haustible; for no other land of the
same extent has the Creator done so
much and man SO little.
The possible development of indus
tries in Ireland should not be con.
sidered before the mighty power to
be obtained from lreland's water
power is appreciated. From the eli
mate in Ireland, and the lay of the
land, every stream is kept full to the
overflowing as it rushes on its way to
the ocean over natures obstacles
placed at every turn. The power thus
generated cannot be found to the same
extent in any other country. The coal
deposits of Ireland exist to an un.
known extent, and if means existed
for their transportation they would be
far more valuable than the English
mines, which are now worked at too
great a depth to be sufficiently profit
able, or, as in Wales, are being ex-
tended to too great distance under
the ocean to be much longer used. The
capitalists who built the Irish railways
were the owners Of the English coal
mines and had the course of the rail
roads built to pass at the greatest
distance from the coal and iron de.
posits in Ireland, while every obsta-
Gle was made by the government to
prevent any effort being made for
their development.
Since the Union" the government
has laid a heavy tax OH the use of
native coal. This is but another in
stance of broken faith on the part of
the English government. BY the fifth
article Of the treaty, or the Act of
the Union" it was pledged that coal,
salt, hops and other articles were to
have been free from taxation, yet
these articles have all been taxed
since. In violation of her pledged
honor, 1t should be stated, every 9th.
or article of this treaty was disre.
garded by England, as is her custom
with every obligation contracted by
her, as the truth seems to be some
thing officially unknown unless she is
to be the gamer. There seems to be
an endless variety Of marbles of every
description and color. Among then,
is found white marble as pure as
any from Italy, and which is seen no
where else III any northern country
The marble is free from the ilnpurity
of iron, which, on exposure to the
weather, becomes oxidized and sol,,
BILE, leaving cavities for the reception
of rain water. This freezes and OH
melting, chips off the face of the stone
leaving q surface for the accumula
ton of dust, ETC., darkening the color
of the stone, as Is shown to have
taken place in the Vermont marble
of the monument to Thomas Adds
Emmett in St. Paul's church, and in
the stone used in the construction OF
Grace church and other buildings
There exists in Ireland the greatest
variety of colors Of clays. as we'll as
the purest white. with kaolin and por
celain clays for the making Of the
finest quality of pottery and china
ware to be found in any part of the
world; also the earths for making
bricks and tiles.
At the Crystal Palace exhibition
held in New York in 1850 recollect
seeing collection of Irish building
stone of over six hundred different
specimens. all of which it was claimed
were Of equally good quality.
Before the close of the seventeenth
century Ireland had demonstrated the
value of her glass works, whose pro
duction was universally accepted as
the most beautiful to be obtained any
where. This was due to the superior
quality Of certain deposits in differ
ent parts of the country and to the
remarkable richness in the residuary
salts found in the ash from the Irish