The Press., 1883-05-31
(Hartford Times.) IRISH IMMIGRATION.

LOOKS very LuuCll us II Uuo Sf0AuoSU IIl- migration from Ireland that this country has ever received was soon to begin. That unfortunate country, cursed by successive years of too much rain, which destroys the crops and leaves not even enough po- tatoes, can find no other means of relief for its suffering population than to send its people across the sea to the hospitable | shores of the Great Republic where so many sons and daughters of old Ireland have already found homes. Here many such emigrants have grown prosperous. Many more, it is true, live in various ill and unwholesome conditions of poverty and untidiness here, as they did in Ire land but this is chiefly due to themselves. There is the same difference in individuals, in the Irish, that there is in the native of any race of people, who ill this great and rich country, with its call for workers, actually need to suffer from extreme pov- erty, except as their own unintelligent lack of ambition or their own degrading appe- tites compel 1t. As general thing, Irish people soon finds themselves vastly better off, in the United States, than they were on ''the ould sod." Some, resisting the allurements of the vague 'great vest" have staid here ill New England, purchas- ed small farms on the hard cid hills of Connecticut or Massachusetts, and con- trived to live and thrive on old homestead places which, practically abandoned by the sons of their former owners, are never theless still capable of yielding a comfort able subsistence, and are located amidst far pleasaater scenery and better social ad- vantages than the big and prolific grain farms of the fiat and tornado-visited plains of ''the vest" Others have joined the . tI> tl,a country" Wherever they locate, east or west, north or south, they are apt to bet ter their condition by coming to the United States.
 There are said to be ten millions of Irish men, women and children in this country now. That is twice an many as the entire population of Ireland. It is the poorer class that emigrates and, sad to say, em- igration, for many, is practically made compulsory. The British authorities act
 ually favor this last desperate method of relieving the abject and wholesale poverty
 of large districts in Ireland The suffering from lack of food appears to be greatest in
 what is called ''the west of Ireland" It is
 in such regions as Galway shows in mel ancholy abundance that the most distress ing hardships are felt. But there is suffer ing enough in most parts of Ireland. Not alone on the black hills of Connemara, but in Clare, aud Connaught, and other coun- ties, the suffering prevails. To complete
 the misery, the rule of ''landlordism" steps in, and if the poor people cannot pay their rent, out they go. They are turned right out, children, grandmothers and all, into the driving storm A writer in Counemara sends to the American press an appeal to the Irish in America to send aid to that region. He says:
 ''Our callous liberal government, true to its traditional instincts where Ireland is con- cerned refuses to do anything to save the people from the impending distress. In the
 words of its leader it has put doaon its foot and
 offers only the repulsive comforts of the work
 house or the emigrant ship the first is re-
 jected with becoming contempt; to obtain admittance to the latter is the panic of the . times. The people are anxious to leave land where oppression is rewarded and industry banned. Thousands of pounds are paid out ; of the British exchequer for the sole purpose of clearing the country, getting rid of the tur- bulent Irish, and converting the nation into a
 pandemonium for landlord rule and graziers. :"
 This shocking picture is not overdrawn
 The writer-Patrick Colgan, c. C.-is writ
 ing from Claddadriff, Connemara, County
 Galway, under the date of April 21st. He
 says the people are leaving by shiploads
 for the United States He adds:
 ''seven hundred emigrants from the west
 sailed from Galway few days ago on the
 ship Canadian. It is but the weekly remit
 tance to the sorrowful role. Three thousand are booked from parishes in Connemara The work of devastation will commence again 3 next spring. This place will soon be a will
 derness, created by landlord tyranny and for , eign rule. Even now the wonder is to see 8 man working in field. Every face seems to ] be turned toward land that is free from CO., ercion. America is the watchword, and young and old have caught the monia."
 It is useless to appeal to England, either
 for justice or aid Only speedy flight from
 their poor country will save these unfor- t tunate people. After all, the bad resort T of dynamite and the dagger is the desper- l ate recourse of men who feel that the gates of Hope and Mercy are alike closed. The writer above quoted does not like the as-
 sassination policy, and advises the people not to join secret oath-bound societies. l He says.
 ''This is in truth nation of sorrows. The l popular press and pen are muzzled our lead , CTS pine away in captivity, and are hanished by bad laws to foreign climes. The ferocious .. code that suppresses national aspirations for . liberty, clears the path for the band of the ,, dagger and the secret oath society that steep ed our land in shame, in sorrows and blood, and made the name of Ireland by-word and
 a reproach in every cline, the innocent man who is induced to join oath-bound secret is under the ban of Christs church on earth. Her hand is raised to strike him off from the
 society of the faithful in this life, and to de- prive him of christian burial after death." He is right. Desperate as is the situa- tion, it affords no justification for secret , leagues of.murder. The flight to America will continue, and will swell in its propor-
 tions. Ireland, in everything but its solid earth and its scenery, seems to be destined 1, to be transferred to this country. In 1941 it had about nine millions of people now
 it has but five.
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