Manchester, Aug. 29.
One of the little noticed features of Iveland's relapse into savagery is the gradual return to their native land of many of those skilled English artisans who had found a market for their talents on the other side of the Irish Channel. Small as their chance is of finding work here just now they yet prefer to take the risk rather than subject themselves and their families any longer to the conditions now prevailing in Ireland.
Some people may be surprised to hear that there were many English workmen in Ireland, seeing what a large number of male emigrants leave there every year for the States, but Irish manufacturers have imported many of their more highly skilled workmen from England for many years, The labour that emigrates from Treland is not the skilled variety from the factories, but the unskilled labour from the villages. The most turbulent portion of the slum populations of Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow, consists almost, exclusively of rough characters of Irish extraction who find employment at heavy tasks requiring no intelligence but plenty of brute Strength. It is unfortunate for England that her re-absorption of nationals is entirely one sided. The. Free State shows no desire to get back its exiles in England and they show as little to return and be governed by their fellow countrymen.
As most of the news from Ireland is now heavily censored it is interesting to get from the returning English workmen their accounts of conditions over! there, for it would be difficult to find a better critic and observer than the slow, tolerant, good-natured, English working-man. Unless his inherent instinct for fair play is outraged he is little disposed to be censorious of his neighbour's failings, and is more inclined to take a generous view than be over critical.
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