This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... be supposed to be less Irish. But a force of the right kind is working slowly but surely, and a change is coming. In the towns of Tipperary, as in the towns of most, of the other Irish counties, there are merchants who regard it as their duty to sell Irish manufactured goods, and, if necessary, recommend them to their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... be supposed to be less Irish. But a force of the right kind is working slowly but surely, and a change is coming. In the towns of Tipperary, as in the towns of most, of the other Irish counties, there are merchants who regard it as their duty to sell Irish manufactured goods, and, if necessary, recommend them to their customers; and in the rural districts the farmers are waking up to the conviction that their duties towards the Irish nation did not end, but in a manner only really began, with the partial settlement of the land question. In order to foster Irish industries some kind of Protection is necessary. Circumstanced as she is at present--governed as she is by England in the selfish commercial and political interest of England--Ireland is unable to make Protection the law of the land in a legal sense. But she is already beginning to do it in a moral sense. "Burn everything English but English coal," is a saying that was for many years dead in a sleepy and forgetful Ireland. But it has been resuscitated of late, and the fiscal policy of which it is, of course, a picturesque apothegm, coined in the wondrous mind of Swift, is coming into play. The Irish people are learning that every time they buy even a box of matches of Irish manufacture in preference to any other, they are striking a blow for Ireland. It is the policy of moral protection. There is no law of England which obliges Irishmen under penalties and pains to favour English manufactures and boycott their own. And a re-awakening Ireland is taking a firm grasp of this economic fact and of all that it means. I turned westward in Nenagh, and picked up the Shannon once more at Portroe, where Lough Derg narrows into a long strip of water, not more than a mile in width, bordered on the Clar...
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