Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.

The total number OF emigrants was 4O,4Ol,
OF OIL per thousand Of the country's popu-
lation, as estimated in the month Of June.
These emigrants comprised 1898 males
and 1865 females, an increase Of 5S1 over
the number emigrating during the pre-
ceding year, 1901.
The province Of Connaught furnished the
largest portion Of this outflow, compared
with its population, the number being H.
5S3, or us per thousand; next came Mum
ster with 15,S72, or lat per thousand; then
Ulster, with 1901, or 81 per thousand, and
Leinster, which contains Dublin, with
1894, or 3.2 per thousand Of the people.
Compared with the year 1901, these figures
show an increase OF 294 emigrants from
Leinster, a decrease Of 500 from Munster,
an increase OF ISL from Ulster and an in
crease of AL from Connaught. The por-
lions Of the report taken up with the
tables and the analysis of the emigration
figures since May 1. 1s51-the date on
which the collection OF these returns COM
menced-show the enormous drain OF pop
ulation that has taken place. Between
May 1, 1851 and January / OF the present
year the emigrants from Ireland make up
the enormous total Of 1921, 222, comprising
2,O4O. 2Se males and 1,1SO,9S6 females. The
largest number In any one year was 19O,-
800 in 1852, and the smallest 80, PAL in 1898.
If to the total by emigration is added those
who died of famine and Of typhus fever,
superinduced by insufficient food during
1S46-49, who numbered, according to Mr..
Mulhall, in round numbers about 1850, 900
we get the enormous depletion Of {, 1850, 900
Of the population, without reckoning the
large emigration Of which there is no COM
plete return, that occurred between 1886
and May 1, 1851. The Irish registrar gen.
erals record contains all the elements of
a CHASTITY national tragedy.
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London is growing tired Of being the com
mon refuge of foreign criminals Of every
nationality and Sir Howard Vincent has in
troduced a bill into the House of Commons
which proposes the compulsory expulsion
of all such gentry as soon as the law shall be
able to lay it's hands upon them. In Par
Lament the other day the home secretary
said that he estimated the annual cost to
the nation of maintaining in prison the 625
aliens in custody at $500 0O, independently
Of the value Of the property stolen. These
aliens formed 9 per cent of the prison pop
ulation. II the census returns were trust
worthy, foreigners constitute less than one
half per cent of the total population of
the country, but are responsible for 3 per
cent of the crime. Hence their criminals
are in the proportion Of 6 to l, as compared
with native-born residents. These figures
only refer to graver offences, and do not
include foreign misdemeanants and others
against whom proceedings are taken by
luminous to the police courts. The eS0, OOC
spent on these alien criminals represents
the interest on s1,0O0,O 900, which, mani
testify, might be more probably expended,
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One Of the prominent European reviews
devoted to naval and military affairs, not.
ing the rapid increase in the number Of
3 ships in the German navy, raises the ques-
ton whether a sufficient number of trained
l men will be Forthcoming to man them, ant
> answers It own query in the Affirmative. Il
! points out that the number of men In
2 corporated in the German navy during thu
I period 1S7s-19OS was 147, 900. OF these IL, OO
= were one-year volunteers, SS,127 were ordi,
. nary volunteers and 9s, 7S0 were conscripts
: There were also 16,731 men who passed
\ straight into the reserve. Allowing fol
4 a decrease Of 25 per. cent from various
= causes, there are still left III. 900 trained
men, a force sufficient to man all the shipi
in the German navy twice over. The mum
Der of men required when the navy Is OF
a peace footing is only $4,000. In addition
= 1t is calculated that up to the end Of 1901
the number Of unframed men who will hav,
> passed direct into the reserve, including tn,
= 16, 731 mentioned above, will be 1888. AM
. out of this number there ought to be a
: : least $4,000 men who, after q short training
! would be available for service.
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!, This programme Of the French ~socialis
party, which has the sympathy Of a goot
p. many FrSnchmen who are not professedl!
= a~AN,IN.x4n Na AP nnffron raAAffn0 NTH fh,
solid and intense opposition of the mill
ltary classes. It is viewed askance also b!
many others who are as yet unable to ris,
above the traditional ideas which hav,
I heretofore ruled them. They say: Let Ger
many begin disarmament and all will b.
we'll. She has nothing to fear from France
who would Immediately follow her example
But as yet they do not seem to be abl'
to follow out their reasoning far enougl
to assure themselves that II Germany, dis
armed. would, as they assert, be entirel,
without danger from France, so woul,
France, disarmed, have NO occasion to feai
q injury from over the border. The social
lists in France, under the lead Of Jaure
and Millerand, are carrying these princi
pies to their logical conclusions. They in
s sist that the way to begin what ought t
be done is to begin, and to begin at k0me
"a NhSS ScANAAaS ~ 6eAA IA RS"NA ~ tA
II national councils as they have done, t
carry larger and larger sections OF tn
population with them in their anti-mili
tarism as now seems certain, and II the,
have the faith aud stability steadily to g
on and meet the crucial test when tn
moment Of execution comes, It is not un
reasonable to believe that we may at a.
early day see a practical beginning Of tn
solution OF the problem Of disarmament
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Such a slaughter OF nobility as has latel!
taken place in Italy has not happened
: since the bloody days Of the French revo
I. luton. Fortunately this last massacre wal
bloodless. The heraldic once Of the king
= dom of italy has been overhauling the roll
! of the nobility and every claim to hered
itary rank has been scrutinized by experts
historians, genealogists and %jurists. witt
the result that a large number of mar
uuises, counts and even princes, have re
eeived notice that they are merely com
moners. The entire BLACK" nobilit
~ (those which owe their rank to the popes
m have been struck on the list; likewise tn
great (meaning numerous) nobility create
A. by the kings of Naples. Another lare