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who go might make living at home if
they put their shoulders to the wheel in
earnest, This paper saws:

who go might make living at home If
they put their shoulders to the wheel in
earnest. This paper says:
"The restless spirit of the age is stir
ring the minds of young Irish men and
women. They feel that they must be off
somewhere, but very often they do not
improve their lot by going. Two Irish
Americans, Father Dollard and MIR.
O'Sullivan, have recently written to the
Irish press raising a note of warning.
They, with the experience of years in the
States, implore their country people to
stay at home.
"Let Irish people not give up their
country to British adventures without a
struggle. Prospects are brighter in
some respects than they have been for
long. The board of agriculture and in
dustries promises to do some substan-
tial good to the country.
"The establishment of industries, of
course, only touches the fringe of the
question as long as the land question is
unsettled, but the prospect of universal
peasant proprietorship becoming an ac-
complished fact is becoming every day
more likely of realization. When the
people own the land which they declare
they love so dearly, surely they will live
on it and develop its resources to the
fullest extent. AS Lord Castletown
once asked:
"'Wl1at is the good of a county coun-
Gil with no one in the county?'"
Some of the more intelligent and un-
prejudiced unionists and Englishmen
are beginning to recognize the fact that
emigration is not the blessing and the
safety they fondly thought and so now
comes along an able writer in the Lon
don Chronicle who, if he could not stop
emigration, would direct it so that it
would not prove to be thorn in the
side of John Bull and danger to the
peace and projects of the empire. He
calls himself Demetrius C. DeKavanagh
Boulger
"Phoebus! What name to swell the
sounding trump of fame" is this COM
bination of Latin, Norman, Irish and
possibly Dutch D. C. De Boulger is
entitled to have panacea for almost
anything and here is his for the Irish
emigration evil. After starting out with
the proposition that the prolific burgh-
ers, though beaten and plundered, are
sure to continue to outnumber the Eng
lisl and so make the hope of a loyal
south Africa vain one, he suggests as
a remedy that the stream of Irish emf
grafton be diverted from America to the
land of the Beers.
Mr.. Boulger wants an Irish colony
there and for the purpose of planting it
on sure foundation he would give free
conveyance to 5000 Irish families and
assign them lands on the soil of the two
republics, provide them with seeds and
implements. He writes:
''In this way population of between
$4,000 and 10000 souls, considerably less
than years emigration from Ireland
could be obtained at once as the-basis of
a colony identified in specially honora-
Bile and striking degree with the name Of
the sister island. If the experiment suc-
ceeded the colony would be fed naturally
by continuous stream of fresh emf
grants from Ireland.
"To give the scheme greater pros
pect of success the cooperation of the
Roman Catholic church should be in
sured by including in the scheme of first
settlement provision for certain num-
ber Of priests who would look after the
spiritual interests of the new colony and
very probably the pope would name a
bishop Of the new land OF promise In
this manner the sentiment of nc Irish
people would be aroused and enlisted in
the success of the undertaking.
cat the same time the English gov
ernment would. for the first time on rec
ord, be doing something to give Irish
men chance of accomplishing work
for which they would get credit in the
eyes of the world and at the hands of
history"
OF course, like all English schemes in
which Ireland is concerned, the domi-
nant thought is the benefit of the British
empire-consideration for any advan-
tage to be gained by the sister isle be-
ing mere incidental thing.
If ireland had the 5000 families to
spare nationalists here would readily as
sist in placing them in South Africa.
After "biden' wee" and multiplying as
moral, healthy races can under kind
conditions, it would take the Irish and
the Dutch but short while to over
throw English supremacy. Both races
are alike in that they never will forgive
and never forget that their liberties and
independence have been trampled upon
by brute force.
The Boston Pilot says that England
is not as successful as France in Chris.