Why should not these things exist again?
"We have a people who are by nature quick and facile to learn, who have shown in many other countries that they are industrious and laborious, and who have not been excelled--whether in the pursuits of agriculture under a midday sun in the field, or amongst the vast looms in the factory districts--by the people of any country on the face of the globe."[1] Most just and eloquent! The only weak point in Mr.Parnell's speech was where he urged his audience "not to use any article of the manufacture of any other country except Ireland, where you can get up an Irish manufacture." The true remedy is to make Irish articles of the best and cheapest, and they will be bought, not only by the Irish, but by the English and people of all nations.

Manufactures cannot be "boycotted." They will find their way into all lands, in spite even of the most restrictive tariffs.

Take, for instance, the case of Belfast hereafter to be referred to.

If the manufacturing population of that town were to rely for their maintenance on the demand for their productions at home, they would simply starve.

But they make the best and the cheapest goods of their kind, and hence the demand for them is world-wide.
There is an abundant scope for the employment of capital and skilled labour in Ireland.