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woes of Ireland than he did. What he had said about 

 patronage he said designedly, and he would endeavour to 

 make good some of his words. He was far from criticising 

 the wisdom of the policy which Lady Burdett-Coutts was 

 carrying out. He should be the first to acknowledge the 

 wise and bountiful charity of that excellent lady, and he 

 might say that he had a double interest in thanking her 

 for what she had done, because she had had the extreme 

 wisdom to go to the Isle of Man, where she was pur- 

 chasing the boats she was sending to Ireland. But, if he 

 might take a case from another country where no feeling 

 would be mixed up with the argument, he would en- 

 deavour to show what he meant. The Germans, like the 

 Irish, were endeavouring to develop their fisheries, and he 

 would state what was going on in Germany. A society in 

 Germany had built for German fishermen a fleet of twelve 

 large vessels to fish in the North Sea. One of those 

 vessels had been lost — it was lost some years ago — and, 

 when he looked into the matter, it had never been re- 

 placed. The other eleven vessels lay most of the year idle 

 at Emden, whilst, notwithstanding that the German 

 Government imposed heavy protective duties to keep out 

 Scotch, Norwegian and Dutch herrings, the whole of the 

 German markets were now supplied, not by the vessels 

 which the Germans had built, but by the Scotch, Nor- 

 wegian, and Dutch fishermen. That was an instance 

 to prove that industries which did not flourish of their 

 own selves would not flourish because some one wished 

 them to do so. He was one of those old-fashioned people 

 who could not get out of his head that an industry which 

 was worth having must be one that took its own root and 

 grew by its own effort. You might grow a plant in the 

 heated air of a hothouse, but it would never flourish like 

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