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, £63,400,000 worth of Irish
produce. Of this Great Britain took £52,600,000 worth, while some
£10,800,000 went either to foreign countries, or to British colonies,
over £4,000,000 going to the United States. Of these eleven million
pounds worth of Irish produce sent to distant countries, only £700,000
was shipped direct from Irish ports.

The remainder, more than £10,000,000, 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 trade and wealth of Ireland that
England has laid hands on for her own aggrandizement, but she has
also appropriated to her own ends the physical manhood of the island.
Just as the commerce has been forcibly annexed and diverted from