France. and Germany u)t account of the tax upon materials of which that machinery is made. The lif ouf machinery which is used in muodern manufacturing inn ges from ton to twenty Years. averaging perhaps fifteen years. If the relief conldat once be given by ia jemoval of the duties upon crude and partly finished muateriels. with very moderate seduction on the finished goods. we should probably repeat the experience of Great Britain. and we should finl. as Gladustone lint it. that " lso read to fi co trade is like the roast to virtue. the first step the ust painful. the last step the iuost profitable." The mnanuificturers of England were formerly so afraid of pauper labor. so raled. that when the preposition for the union of Ireland with Etu gland was p ending. the purport of which was of course to bring Ireland under the same tariff sys1cm as that of England. they sent memorials to Parliament in opposition to the tuition. en cile ground that they would be ruined. by the cheap labor of Ireland. OF course they were disappointed. they were net obliged to disturb or stop the factories of Lancashire and of Yotkshiro or to move them across the Channel. The manufacturers of England soon founid out that the lowpriced. labor of peol vociging on patuperism is the dearest andunot thle cheapest labor that can be offeIuit.
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Generalization about the cheap labor of Ireland ruining English factories.