It involves, as I have already said, the further development of manufactures in Irish towns.

One of the best ways to stimulate our industries is to develop the home market by means of an increased agricultural production, and a higher standard of comfort among the peasant producers.

We shall thus be, so to speak, operating on consumption as well as on production, and so increasing the home demand for Irish manufactures.

Perhaps more urgent than the creation or extension of manufactures on a larger scale is the development of industries subsidiary to agriculture in the country.

This is generally admitted, and most people have a fair knowledge of the wide and varied range of peasant industries in all European countries where a prosperous peasantry exists.