The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-02-18
Fund For Famine Sufferers.

The fund for the relief of the fam
ine stricken peasants of Ireland has
now almost reached the $4,000 mark.
a mass meeting was held Sunday to
perfect arrangements for the sending
Of the money to relieve the distress.
The following report w S read:
The committee of SCI eE appointed
to canvass the project of sending a
shpload of potatoes to thS famine
stricken districts in Ireland mas given
the matter its earn est consideration
and desires to submit the following
recommendations:
First, that the proposition to trans
port the potatoes to Ireland is imIrac-
ucable for the, reasons that the risk
of injury to the tubers in transit is
too great and that there is no guar
antee that the tubers, even if shipped
without injury, would be adapted to
the damp, loamy soil of western Ire
land
Your committee has endeavored to
obtain the best informa ton concerning
the Suita bility of the Greeley potato
as seed for Ireland, and has concluded
that the risk in this connection is too
serious to warrant the shipment, and
that if the Greeley seed were not suit
bic the subscribers to the fund would
be innocent parties TO further priva-
lions in Ireland.
otcOllus lIlaI Ile NeGQ IOE TelleI Is
so urgent that your committe unani-
mously recommends that the fund be
closed March l and that it be for
warded on or before March 1 10 some
person to be designated by vote of
The subscribers to the fund.
u. X. MULLEN.
DAN B. CAREY,
JOSEPH p. DUNN,
IN. J. O'FALLON.
IS. ]. DONLEAVY. Secretary;
REV. c. O'FARRELL,
P. r. RIORDAN, Treasurer"
Mr.. Donleavy read 4 letter from |
Archbishop O'Connor Of Tuam. which |
ran as follows:
"Presbytery, Ballagbadereen, Fen. IA, |
l9O3.-Aiy Dear Mr.. Dorleavy: On be- |
half of the poverty-stricl1en people of |
this western district. as well as on |
behalf Of the priests associated with
me in making known the necessity for
relief, beg to thank you most cor
daily, and through you, to offer TO
the 1rish-Americans of Colorado the
Warn;est thanks and most grateful lc-
acknowledgements of an impoverished
people for the kind throughtfulness
which prompted you to come to their
relief when the grim spectcr of famine |
stared them in the face Indeed, on 4
all occasions of periodic fammes in
this country such as we experience a
present, We had always reason to be
more than grateful to our Irish Ameri-
can friends, not merely for their spon-
-aneous sympathy, but their sUbstan-
tlal assistance as well. and we can
never adequately acknowledge our ap-
probation or express our gratitude for
the large-hearted and whole-hearted |
goodness which has been shown to us |
by our American friends.
1 cabled you last evening to say :
that / gladly and gratefully accepted ]
your generous offer of potatoes for
seed for the poor people of this west
ern district, but it occurred to me be- | {
fore cabling that our climate being
so different from yours-damp and cold
and poor soil-it would be well TO as
certain from the agricultural DEPART {
ment whether the Greeley tuber would
suit. Accordingly I wired the depart
nent and the reply which 1 enclose
conveys that they have not tested that
variety and therefore don't know The
then arises, would that quail ,
ty OF seed grow in our damn soil2
II 1t should fail the cost of shipment.
rs well as the cost of providing the
potatoes in Colorado, would be lost
ma hence | suggested in my cable :
he desirability Of providing Scotland !
iced IN case that it was ascertained
rom an expert source that it was un- I
AfNClS tildI tilt AIIeeley SEED would not
uit. In the event that it win not '
uit ] would respectfully suggest that |
he money you purpose spending on q
he 1000 tons be placed in the hands 7
f committee of the priests here. to
'e named by the bishop. and let that
ommittee be responsible for procur- a
lg the best and most suitable seed. e
n this arrangement a very large part o
f the cost of shipment would be saved, g
if the potatoes were Sc "
ured IN Scotland.
AS there is the difficulty mentioned
bout the seed, there is no necessity
or making arrangements till I hear :,
rom you again, and / need hardly Il
ay that I and the priests with me
hall be anxious to carry out what u
yer commands you are pleased to give 1
s. Your action has been decidedly
of true sons of the =,
oil n
Again thanking you most sincerely .
1r making me the medium of such -
God news TO our poor people. with II
verlasting gratitude, / remain. INV
ear Mr.. Donleavy, yours most CRATE II,
lily and sincerely. J. O'CONNOR." !