The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-06-28

800, In England and Wales A6. and J
Belgium, con:ented and rich, 4S5. Wit
a population the least Of these !
density and with soil ranking high Il
fertility, Ireland Is the only country men
toned In which what has been misleading
ly called famine has occurred in moderl
times; and England is the only moderi
government, which, while boasting o
"prosperity budgets and OF an actua
she claims as subjects, dying OF hunger, u
saved from death by the charity of tor
eign land.
Secondly.-Ireland is not overpopulatet
in proportion to her food supply. Her to-
| tai area Is twenty million acres, her popu
lation five million souls. Only three mil
lion acres are under tillsge; yet in the yeal
1882 her five principal food crops amounted
to total of 15,676. .2so,6SS pounds
foo fsod a.v Or nearly so1 eight pouVSs
Oi %an 'SGs snd ohd. d There s'e1y viii be appsr
emily slight increase in these crops the
present year. Immigration is not, therefore
q necessity arising out of an inadequate
| food supply. 1t Is an important fact that
money is being drawn from American citi'
zens at the present time to keep numbers
of the Irish people from death by hubger.
The so-called famines have been produced
not by nature. but by political mlsru'e.
Thirdly-Emigration cannot be soclal
necessity in country able to bear eScra-
ordinary burdens of taxation. When the
government of England abolished the par
| lament of Ireland In 1900, the debt OF Ire
| land, under her own government, was only
| twenty million dollars. England consoli-
dated with this the imperial debt, in ex-
press violation of the articles OF Legislative
union, and has since compelled Ireland to
bear an arbitrary share in the burdens o. Of
the empire. Ireland now sends to
England eight and half million,
in taxes. less than fourth Of
which is expended for even nominal irish
purposes. A country aole to contribute
$50 600 900 year for extraneous objects can
scarcely be catagoried IS so poor that emi-
grafton is necessity. In lS47, when she
tide of compulsory emigration first set IN,
the population Of Ireland was $500 600,
annually. Now her population has
diminished to 100000 and her
taxation has risen to 1850 ,0o9.
We submit that emigration under such cir
cumstances is not necessity OF nature, but
compulsion of government. While the
lord lieutenant has gazed with undimmed
eyes upon British subjects, driven by COM
pulsory poverty between the decks of emf
grant ships under his own superintend-
do with surplus of $13, 100000.
Fourthly. That emigration from Ireland
is political oppression, and not natural
necessity, is apparent, because, although
eighteen million of her twenty million acres
are cultivable only three million acres are
under tillage. The obvious remedy, Is the
distribution OF the people over new land in
their own country and giving them such aid
as will enable them to live upon it and
| tIa;r tay than
1t may rightly be said that
with these details of internal management
of foreign country the United States can
not properly interfere. Half the entire
area of Ireland is now under grass To re-
distribute the people over its arabic portion
and promote tillage is the more moral OBJ
legation since English law destroyed the
manufactures OF Ireland and left the people
only the land to draw life from.
Finally-the political causes which keep
Ireland poor, constitute her q tax Ypon q
large proportion of the citizens OF this re-
public, who are annually compelled 10 re-
nit money to save the Irish people from
suffering and death. We respectfully sub
nit that no portion Of the American peo-
pie should be taxed directly or indirectly,
for the maintenance OF a foreign
government to which they owe
no allegiance, 1t is within bounds to
blood are compelled to send at least five
million dollars annually to Ireland, the es-
innate being based on the figures of faith
| fnl British servant, Lord Dufferin. This
money, earned in the United States, should
remain in the United States. and
be added to the active beneficial
capital OF the republic: True, it is
the voluntary gift of the donors;
but It is at the same time compulsory and
of the nature ofa tax, since 1t is wrung
from them by the poverty OF kinsmen
whose condition is the result of political
misrule, This immense annual export of
money earned in the United States should
be stopped.
Our census shows that since 1920 the peo-
pie of Ireland have furnished 30 per cent.
of all the immigration into the United
States. Their contribution was doubtless
proportionately greater during the latter
half of the eighteenth century, when the
total destruction OF Irish trade and manu-.
factures by England cast tens OF thousands
of her most industrious artisans and mer-
chants into want: and il could scarcely have
been less in the first two decades OF the pres
ent century, when the fraudulent legislative
union OF England with Ireland paralyzed
her reviying energy. The Irish immigrants
and their descendants comprise now con.
siderably more than third II the people
OF this country They are ardentlv at
tached to its institutions, 10 which they
render no divided allegiance.
That, in the absence OF legislation on the
subject, the president OF the United States
make official protest to the government OF
Great Britain against the further deposit
upon the territory of the United States OF
such persons reduced by misrule to pau.
perism in Ireland;
That the officials of the United States at
American seaports and along the Canadian
frontier be instructed carefully 10 collect
information, statistical and descrip-
tive, on the subject OF pauper
British immigration which has already
entered or NAV hereafter enter the territory
OF the United States, and that the reports
Of these officials be transmitted TO the con
Rress Of the United States with recommen-
dations by you for the enactment Of appro.
pirate remedial legislation.
That the United States government con-
sider the propriety Of calling the attention
of the government Of Crest Britain 10 the
fact that the political and social condition
Of ireland compels large number Of citi.
zens Of the United States annually TO send
an immense sum Of money into that
misery and preveht the fatal
effects OF famine in the midst OF an
abundance OF food: and, that in the name
of humanity itself, the British government
he requested BY the government OF the
United States to remove the causes which
create and perpetuate this misery and
keep nearly Eve million human beings In
unparalleled distress and on the verge OF
the most frightful death.
Sir, in listening 10 such q request from
the government Of the United Ststes, the
Government Of Great Britain must recall its
own actiOn and the present minister his
own words concerning the government and
people Of Naples, Of Herzegovina, OF Bos-
Ma. servia. Bulgaria and Montenegro. The
The chronic condition OF half the entire
population Of Irsland surpasses In depth Of
suffering the condition Of the inmstes
Of Neapolitan prisons, CONDITION
be cbaracterized as the extreme
Of horror" He ord not hesitate 10
urge that the government Of Naples be
brought 20 q sense o. justice By the influ-