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108.: The Sea-Fisheries (Ireland) Bill 24 JUNE, 1868 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868 [1850]

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Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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108.

The Sea-Fisheries (Ireland) Bill

24 JUNE, 1868

PD, 3rd ser., Vol. 192, cols. 2021–2. Reported in The Times, 25 June, p. 6, from which the responses are taken. Mill spoke during the second reading of “A Bill to Amend the Laws Relative to the Coast and Deep Sea Fisheries of Ireland,” 31 Victoria (30 Apr., 1868), PP, 1867–68, V, 205–20, following Shaw-Lefevre

(col. 2021).

mr. j. stuart mill said, the main objection of his honourable Friend who had just sat down to the granting of loans to the Irish fishermen was that if this were done for Ireland it should be done for Scotland and England. His answer was that Ireland was a more backward country than either Scotland or England. Government might very properly undertake to do things for a country which was industrially backward, which no one could expect from them in the case of a country which was in a more advanced and prosperous condition. (Hear, hear.) This consideration was of all the more weight when it was remembered that the industrial backwardness of Ireland was, in a great measure, attributable to the past legislation of this country. For a long period English legislators, without distinction of party, employed themselves in crushing this and most other branches of Irish enterprize. It was therefore incumbent on us, now that we were wiser and able to look upon our past conduct with shame, to legislate in an opposite direction, and even to risk if necessary the loss of small sums of money to advance that industry which we had formerly endeavoured to retard. (Hear, hear.)

[The Bill was given a second reading.]