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Show 1 RELAX D THE LARDER OF ENGLAND. (By Dr. R. Howley in "July Donahoe's.) Ireland has become the mere store-room and larder of England, her wealthy grasping neighbor. Fhigland consumes all Ireland, can produce and clamors for more. In return she kills Irish industries indus-tries in the very root by supplying everything Ireland Ire-land could possibly manufacture even at her very best on cheaper terms than the Irish manufacturer manufac-turer could accept. A suit of real Blarney tweed can be had cheaper in Manchester than in Cork. Irish butter, eggs, fish, are cheaper in London than in Dublin, though this produce is swamped in the English market by Danish, Norman, Belgian and Jersey imports, inferior perhaps to the Irish in quality, but far more neat and cleanly placed upon the markets. The fact is that Ireland cannot prosper pros-per or retain its youth aspiring to better things, while hopelessly overshadowed by an Fnglish collection. coll-ection. She is forced to cater for and submit to England's industrial demands without choice of other issue for her productions. America does much to conserve this state of things by heavily taxing Irish productions and overwhelming the struggling island with her own cheaper and more abundant produce. England may be able to stand that. Ireland Ire-land cannot. But if Ireland was free, self governing, govern-ing, she could and would frame her own tariff with America and open up new channels of trade elsewhere. |