Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-14
THE FACTS WITH REGARD
TO IRELAND.

and no sentiment. RADIX.
THE FACTS WITH REGARD
TO IRELAND.
The investigation made by Consul
General Merritt with regard to the
real condition of the Irish people and
the proportions of the distress at
present existing among them is
valuable contribution to our knowl-
edge of the subject. The report is
based on facts gathered by our con-
suls resident in different districts,
who ale little likely to be deceived or
to be Influenced by prejudice. The
general drift of the reports is that
there is genuine distress and need in
some sections that in others, while
there is poverty enough, it is only of
kind which is chronic and normal;
and that, taking the whole island to-
gether, there is no such extreme need
and suffering as the current reports
would lead one to suppose. Never
theless, the pressure of bad seasons
and adverse circumstances has been
so severe upon many farmers and
laborers that the emigration move
ment is certain to be stimulated to
unusual proportions. A considera-
BILE number of the emigrants will be
persons who are assisted to leave
Ireland either by the government or
by associations, whose aid extends
scarcely further than an outfit and
passage money, and will land upon
our shores many emigrants who have
not money enough to carry them
beyond the ports at which they are
landed.
1t is this class of emigration which
demands the attention of our govern
ment. The real point of solicitude
is not that these emigrants are poor,
for we have welcomed hundreds of
thousands of poor foreigners, who
have been able speedily not only to
better their own fortunes, but to con-
tribute to the welfare of the republic.
Nor is it that their emigration is ''as-
sisted,' for most of the emigrants
who come to us from Ireland are
helped to come. But there is this
important difference, that those emf
grants whose friends in this country
help them to come, find aid also
when they land, and are guided to
places where they can have fair
start, while the government aided
emigrants apparently are to be land
ed without any provision being made
for them after they reach the new
world. The English government
transports them hither and leaves
them with perhaps a pound apiece in
their pockets, and gives itself no
further uneasiness about them. When
the assisted-emigration movement
began, it was asserted that provision
would be made for giving the emf
grants start after they landed but
if nothing of this kind is to be done,
it is time for protest and remonstr-
ance on our pant, lest Engladd re.
lieve herself of troublesome prob,
lem by imposing upon us.
There is the less excuse for this
because the Canadian land companies
have made a definite proposal to the
English Government for planting
Irish emigrants in the Canadian
Northwest, on terms advantageous
to all concerned. The proposal il
that the Government shall loan the
companies, for ten years without in
terest, the sum of S5,000,000, to bt
used in transporting ten Thousand
small farmers and their families, sa,
fifty thousand persons in all. Eacl
family is to be provided with 16t
: acres of fine wheat-growing land,
S comfortable wooden house, a GOV
and the necessary implements fo
cultivating the soil, including th
5 cost of blowing and seeding a few
4 acres for the first years crop. Th
t land companies offer to undertak
y the work of transplanting and settlin,
u these families, under the Govern
q ment supervision, and will take
l. lien of $500 on each farm, on whic
e the emigrant will pay per cent, liz
q terest per annum after the first tw
IS years, with the right of paying u
> the principal at any time. Thi
1t scheme would materially reduce th
y redundant population of Ireland {
no cost to the Government turtle
Il than the interest of $500 for tie
d years for each family-or about So
70 for the whole ten years. -Journal.
IL STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Senator Edmunds and party will 7
ne main in California six weeks. They W
e. visit Oregon and Washington.
IS boy named Bishop, from Lisbon,
ed H., was drowned in Darling pond, Co
no cord, VT, on Sunday, while boating.
re r. j. Kendall & Co. Of Enosburgh Fa
r, have put in an elevator in their buildil
and are soon to put in a new book pres
The Lane manufacturing company ha
:" shipped over $4,000 worth of machine