The Irish standard., 1900-05-05
volunteers. To preserve peace and tran
quillity at home and abroad the Hanna
Mckinley pirates must be defeated at
the polls next November.
INFORMATION FOR VICTORIA.
Mr.. Matheson, the new Irish res

last year while the queen is in this coun-
try, and we trust he will send her mai
esty copy OF the compilation. In or
der to point the moral of these statistics
it is only necessary to-quote them, says
the Dublin Freeman's Journal of April
2I. The number of emigrants who LEI,
Irish ports in 1890 was 43,7oo, or 81 per
1000 of the estimated population, being
an increase OF o,So5 as compared will,
the number for the previous year. The
males amounted to 20, 568, or 5000 more
than in the previous year; and the fe-
males to 2slo2, an increase OF 1895
over the previous year. This terrible tale
OF another upward jump in these sal
figures Of Irish life recalls at once the
long story OF the departures of the Irish
people from their own and much-loved
land. The total number of cmigrants-
natives OF Ireland-wlo left Irish ports
from the list OF May, 1851 (the date at
which the collection OF these returns
commenced). to the 31st OF December.
1899, is 3796,131-1,oS1,443 males and
I,8I4,688 females. The highest number
in any one year was Ioo,322 in 1852, and
the lowest sc.o41 in 1893. In the decade
from 1866 to 1875, the average annual
number of emigrants was 1867; in the
decade 1856 to 1865 the average number
per annum amounted to S8,272; and in
the four preceding years, from 1852 to
1855, the number averaged 148oS5 an
nually In 1876 the number fell to
1857, the lowest number for any OF
the 26 years, 1916. After 1876 it in
creased steadily but slowly, for three
years to $500 in 1877, ALBA in 1873,
and 47,o65 in 1879. In 1880 the number
rose to o5,517, but it fell to 7S,417 in
1881. In 1882, however, an increase of
1910 took place, and there was fur
Their increase in 1883, in which year the
emigrants amounted to 1o8,724; then a
decrease OF 32,S61 took place in
1884, compared with 1883, and a
decrease ol 1899 in 1885, compared
with 1884, followed by an increase Of
1,1o1 in 1886, and further increase of
1878 in 1887, in which year the number
was 82,o23. After 1887 there was a
gradual annual decline to 1896 in 1894;
in 1906 the number rose to 4S,7o3; it
then fell to 3S,oo5 in 1896, to 1885 in
1897, and to 32,241 in 1898; and finally
it began to rise again last year, when
the number was 41,232. No such rise as
this-o,ooo- has taken place since 1895.
1t is to be hoped it is not the beginning
of a new continuous increase. The fact,
however, lnust bring bitter memories to
1rishmen Of the attitude of large Sec
ton, Of the English people towards the
starvation..that, in 1858, was evidently
the Immediate cause of the next years
increase III emigration. Similarly, what
an argument for the absolute necessity
there was for the establishment of the
United Irish League in the West there
is in the table that gives the number of
people who have gone away by prov
inces. OF the 41,232 natives of Ireland
who left the country last year, 3,542, or
3 per 1000 of the population of the
province in 1891, were from Leinster;
1888, or 1874 per 1000, were from
Munster; 8,7oI. or Sd per 1000, were
from Ulster: and 1921, or 1874 per
1000, were from Connaught.
The queen is in Dublin to-day, and
her loya|ist subjects are happy. Last
year 1874 per 1000 of the people OF
Connaughto flew to the ends of the
earth to get away from her laws and her
system and the poverty they have
brought with them. Is it any wonder
that Irisl,nen who are neither Castle
traders OF the capital, nor, as Mr.. Ed
ward Martyr says in the excellent letter
to the Galway Board OF Guardians,
which we publish to-day, hunters
or Irish landlords looking for positions
for their sons, should gaze on this awful
spectacle with grief and indignation,
and VOW that they would do every
thing i'll their power to put an end to it?
We hear a great deal about the queen
as wife and mother" During the last
fifty years I,827,566 Irish girls have been
forced to leave their country by an arti-
fetal and cruel cvctc,r, NJ oovar,,,,,o,+ ~
which her majesty is the head. How
many wives and mothers virtuous,
home-loving, and pious are behind that
terrific total OF nations womanhood
how many maidens driven to a doom
even worse than the poverty from which
they fed? One painful feature of these
returns is to be found in the ages of the
emigrants.' Last year 82.o per cent Of
them were between IS and IS. 1t has
been the same all along. The young,
with their National school education,
are going ever and ever; the old, the
feeble, the lame, the blind, remain. Has
any country in Europe ever been bled so
continuously and so disastrously? From
Germany there has been great emf
grafton, but yet the German population
has increased by over 50 per cent since
the war with France. There it was the
natural emigration OF adventurous
youth seeking their fortunes in strange
lands. Here the emigration goes hand