The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-23
/. IRISH EMIGRATION.

IRISH EMIGRATION.
The r. Extraordinarily Annual and Guar
IS sterly Reports
The irish Registrar Generals annual
and quarterly reports always contain 6,
few suggestive items, and his latest pub.
locations are as interesting as their pre-
decessors, says the Oldham English,
Chronicle We learn that during the
year 1893 the Irish birth rate was lit.
tie under the abnormally low average Of
the preceding ten years, and that the
recorded natural increase in the popula-
ton or excess Of births over deaths.
amounted TO ,261; but that as the loss
by emigration was 48,147 there appears
to have been a decrease OF 1885, in the
Irish population, during the year 1888.
The estimated population for the middle
of the year was 4,615,3l2. The latest
quarterly report gives statistics of three
months ending on 3Oth of last Sspten.
Der, and informs US that during that De-
riod over $4,000 births, and over 10000
deaths were registered; but as Il, 296per
sons had emigrated the population had
decreased during the quarter by 1905.
and that this decrease must be deducted
from the estimated population for the
middle of the year 1894, which was,
100000. Something is to be learned:
also from the distribution of births
deaths and marriages, and from the To-
| calities furnishing the greater number of
ii]egitimate children. Ninety. seven per
CENT of Irish infants were legitimate.
Ulster has the highest rate OF iIlegiti-
macy, Connaught the lowest; Leinster
comes next to Ulster, and Munster
stands between Connaught and Leinster.
Taken by counties Antrim and Down
have the highest birth rate; Dublin and
K-rry follow. The lowest birth rates are,
found in Monaghan, Meath Cavau and
Tyrone. Connaught, which has the low.
est birth rate, has also the lowest death
rate. Munster has the next lowest, and
the highest death rate occurs in Lsinster.
It is evident that the remedial legislation
granted to Ireland and the good promises
made to her have not yet touched the
exiles that have induced the deep-seated
national decadence of her industrial pop
ulation, and it seems as If the Irisl, ques-
tion-liks SO many other unsolved prob
lems-is being solved by the hand of
time, and the certain conditions found
too bad for Mother Natures use-:or for
her recuperative processes-are bsing
flung into her dust hole, and their whilom
wearers given new leases of life under
more suitable conditions. The Irish,
taken en- bloc and just as they are, thrive
ip the more modern communities of our
globe, and as their productive labor
forces it's competition on their bandi.
capped countrymen in the old country
the inevitable economic conseq Iences
are bound to agravate the decay Of the
latter, and as none of the political re-
forms now kept dangling before the
public eye can be counted on for either
immediate use or for any practical re-
moval of the handicap now weighing
down industry, it looks as if the Celtic
Irish will be forced to move EDWARDS
should they desire prosperity and peace
and it seems as if the world has (all
unconciously) been calmly obseryapt of
one of those great migrations which have
been so often forced upon nationalitiee
by their Creator.
Practically the Irish exodus is now
pretty nearly an accomplished fact, as
the American Irish alone number be-
tween $1,000, 900 and 2O,OO0,OO0, and Can
ada has also it's quota, along with AUS
tralia and South America. The remnant
remaining in Ireland is but handful
when compared with it's race across the
waters. Looked at from any practical
standpoint it seems impossible for Irish
industry lin Ireland as she isl to hold its
own against Irish industry as it stands
in more modern communities than ours.
1t seems impossible also that the best
mentioned legislative action can run
race with old time and create a level
platform for old world labor, as compar-
ed with the better placed labor of newer
lands. What the former lack the latter
already has, and the speedliest reforms
must lag behind the accomplished facts
Of every -day life in these new countries;
consequently it is best for poor Paddy to
trust to his emigrant's ticket, and for q
e5 note to buy for immediate use all that
his soul hungers for, and all that bis race
has fought so hard for and paid too
dearly for, yet has never won in his old
home. What shall stay him under such
circumstances?
Just Little Advice.
Mother, when your child goes to a
neighbours house don't ask as soon as he
comes home, "WhaS were they doiugg'