e Irish Wool being transported would soon ruin the English Clothing
Manufacture. Hence it is that all Your Majesty's Predecessors have
kept close to this fundamental maxim of retaining Ireland inseparably
united to the Crown of England."

The sole and exclusive appropriation of Ireland and of all her
resources has indeed formed, since the Recorder of Kinsale wrote, the
mainstay and chief support of British greatness.

The natural position of Ireland lying "in the line of trade," was
possibly its chief value, but that "Irish Wool" which was by no means
to be allowed free access to world markets typifies much else that
Ireland has been relentlessly forced to contribute to her neighbour's
growth and sole profit.

I read but yesterday "Few people realise that the trade of Ireland
with Great Britain is equal to that of our trade with India, is
13,000,000 pounds greater than our trade with Germany, and 40,000,000
pounds greater than the whole of our trade with the United States."
How completely England has laid hands on all Irish resources is
made clear from a recent publication that Mr. Chamberlain's "Tariff
Commission" issued towards the end of 1912.

This document, entitled "The Economic Position of Ireland and its
relation to Tariff Reform," constitutes, in fact, a manifesto calling
for the release of Ireland from the exclusive grip of Great Britain.
Thus, for instance, in the section "External Trade of Ireland,"
we learn that Ireland exported in 1910, L63,400,000 worth of Irish
produce. Of this Great Britain took L52,600,000 worth, while some
L10,800,000 went either to foreign countries, or to British colonies,
over L4,000,000 going to the United States. Of these eleven million
pounds worth of Irish produce sent to distant countries, only L700,000
was shipped direct from Irish ports.

The remainder, more than L10,000,000, although the market it was
seeking lay chiefly to the West, had to be shipped East into and to
pay a heavy transit toll to that country for discharge, handling,
agency, commission, and reloading on British vessels in British ports
to steam back past the shores of Ireland it had just left. While
Ireland, indeed, lies in the "line of trade," between all Northern
Europe and the great world markets, she has been robbed of her trade
and artificially deprived of the very position assigned to her by
nature in the great tides of commercial intercourse. It is not only
the geographical situation and the tra