The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-29
TO STOP
irish EXODUS
AN APPEAL TO ERIN'S SONS
OVER THE WORLD ISSUED
BY ANTl-EMlGRA-
TON SOCIETY
The Depcpulation of Ireland Threat
ened Unless the Outward
Movement Ceases.

f'We appeal to the Irish-American
land Catholic press and to the Irish
American hi.hops and clergy to do al
IN their power to stop the steady flow
of emigration which IS depopulating
Ireland; AMI finally we appeal to
Irish organizations anl societies IN
America to throw their united
strength into an effort to hold Ire
land as the cradleland of the race
This IS rhe keynote of a leaflet
which has been sent broadcast by the
.Anti-Emigration Society OF ireland
among prominent Irish Americans.
Many of the tracts have been re-
ceived in Richmond The society was
organized in May, 1908, in Dublin,
with Cardinal LogIe, archbishop of
Armagh, as president and R. A
Sheehan, bishop of Waterford and
Lismore, DIR. Michael F. Cox and
Rev. Peter O'Leary as vice-presidents
The pamphlet is signed by these Off
GERS and he following:
Archbishop Thomas FennelIy of
Cashel
Archbishop John Healy of Taum-
Douglas Hyde, president of the Gae
lie League.
John Sweetman, chairman Meath
county council and founder of the
Sweetman Catholic colony of Mime
sofa.
John A. Glynn, chairman Galway
county council.
Henry Egan, chairman Kings
county council.
P. F. Mutually. chairman Upper
ary county council.
Edmund Nugent. chairman Water
ford county council.
Peter hughes, chairman Loutl
county conIcil.
Danger of Depopulation.
Startling facts in the depopnlation
cf the islard are shown in the follow
ing excerpts from the brochure:
The greatest danger threatening
Ireland today is the danger of the px-
-tinction of the Irish race within her
own shores For sixty years the flow
of emigration has gone on till the /
population of the country is reduced I
to one-half what it was before the /
famine. Tn The last twenty years, ac-
cording to the report Of the commits
sioner general of immigration at /
Washington, no fewer than 100000 /
lnen and women have emigratod from 4
ireland to the United States alone. /
Of these 755, 900, or S3 per cent. were
II the prime of life. between the ages
of is and 35, and in Ireland at the !
last census the whole number of per
sons Of these ages was only ] 800, 900; I
so that tte loss of her young popula-
tion in the last twenty wears was one
half the ..sent adult population in
the prime e life
This enormous withdrawal Of the
most vigorous portion of the nation
has had its natural results. The ma
tive population is steadily falling;
the marriage rate and the birth rate
ere the lowest Of any civilized coun-
Try; lunacy IS increasing to an alarm
ing degree. and the scarcity of labor
IS felt IN many branches of agrieul-
ture. While the stream of Irish emf
grafton sets toward the West there is
a steady, silent influx of foreigners.
who are rapidly constituting them
selves the dominant commercial and
industrial interest. At the census Of
1901 the foreign-born population of
the island increased by nearly 10000
in the decennial period. If this dou-
BE process of emigration and "pIan-
tation" coGtinues. the native I1ish
will soon be entirely supplanted in
their own land by people of other
races.
The Irish IN America have a great
responsibility in this crisis. It is es-
timated the passage of more than
half the emigrants is prepaid by re-