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clustry." Instead, however, of the premises 

 from which this conclusion is drawn being true, 

 the opposite are so, and hence the inference 

 ought to be reversed. England contains 

 greater facilities for growing raw materials of 

 an exportable kind than Ireland, and Ireland 

 greater facilities for manufacturing industry, 

 and the production of raw materials of a non- 

 exportable quality than England. 



Many other reasons have been advanced 

 rather of a moral than physical character, vainly 

 attempting to prove that Irishmen are un- 

 qualified for the task of establishing artificial 

 industry, so to speak, in their native country. 

 Granting for the sake of argument that they 

 were so, the question immediately starts up, 

 "\Yould not Englishmen enter the field, em- 

 brace the many advantages which the country 

 naturally affords, and teach their English friends 

 of the mother country that half the expense of 

 transporting the raw material once across the 

 channel is a remunerating profit through the 

 instrumentality of machinery ? Had reasons 

 of the above description been valid, manu- 

 facturing industry would long before now have 

 been established in the sister country. 

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