Channel Tunnel; Great Speech ... in the House of Commons ... 1888 ..
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Twenty-five miles of submarine tunnel from England to France would restore this nation to her ancient commercial supremacy; and would lead ex necessitate to another tunnel from Scotland to Ireland, which would yield ample dividends if American trade and passengers flowed through it, and would for ever settle the Irish question. The increase in our wealth and comfort would be untold, and Ireland would be a sharer in both. All these advantages are obvious to the meanest understanding, and are ins...usceptible of contra- diction. Against them are to be set the craven fears of a few soldiers and the sentimentalism of a few jour- nalists. I am acquainted with one of the latter — a man whom to know is to love, and for whom one line of Shakespeare, " This precious stone set in a silver sea," outweighs all material considerations and arguments.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach admits that, for want of better communication with the Continent, we are losing the dep6t trade of the world. ''I will tell you," he continued, "how to retain that trade by a better and cheaper mode.
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Twenty-five miles of submarine tunnel from England to France would restore this nation to her ancient commercial supremacy; and would lead ex necessitate to another tunnel from Scotland to Ireland, which would yield ample dividends if American trade and passengers flowed through it, and would for ever settle the Irish question. The increase in our wealth and comfort would be untold, and Ireland would be a sharer in both. All these advantages are obvious to the meanest understanding, and are ins...usceptible of contra- diction. Against them are to be set the craven fears of a few soldiers and the sentimentalism of a few jour- nalists. I am acquainted with one of the latter — a man whom to know is to love, and for whom one line of Shakespeare, " This precious stone set in a silver sea," outweighs all material considerations and arguments.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach admits that, for want of better communication with the Continent, we are losing the dep6t trade of the world. ''I will tell you," he continued, "how to retain that trade by a better and cheaper mode.
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