The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-28
EMIGRATION INCREASE
D!sC0URAGEs IRELAND
Flight of. Thousands Blasts the
Islands Hope old Wounds
May Be Healed.
BY = Staff Correspondent.

BY staff Correspondent.
Dublin, Oct 17.-Despite all the eff
forts to check emigration the returns
for the nine months ending with Sep
TENDER show big increase. During
the first three months of the year there
was substantial decline, but with
April there began rush OF emlgrants
which has swollen the tide to a figure
much beyond previous years. The
total number. for the nine months is
3O,9s1, as compared with 26,215 last
year.. The increase, strange to say, is
less from congested and poverty
stricken Colnaught than from the more
prosperous provinces. Ulster con-
tributes nearly LOO Of the increase.
Of the emigrants to America 1886 had
their passages prepaid by friends and
relatives there. If the increase is
maintained until the. end Of the year
women will have left their native
shores in the twelve months. The
figures are discouraging. They show
that the steps thus far made to make
Ireland attractive to ,Irishmen, to con-
vince them that they have a fair
chance to do we'll in their native land
have not proved effective. One can
only hope and trust that they will
prove more effective in the future.
dawn of better. times, apparent to
those who look beyond the clouds of
the present and see in the future a
genuine united Ireland, animated by
common national spirit.
2 May Heal Old Wounds.
In promoting this much-desired con.
summation the industrial, revival
movement is undoubtedly one Of the
most potent. In recent number of
the TIrish Draper is an article of
more than ordinary significance as in
dicating what view is held by the com
merclal classes of the country of the
policy that should be pursued.
"In the present juncture,' says this
organ of the most important branch Of
everywhere visible that the winter Of
Irish discomfort is about to be made
glorious summer by the agencies of re-
viving industries thruout the land, it is
strenuously required by the home-trade
journalist to urge with might and main
the necessity Of fostering industrial
reciprocity between the north and
south sections Of a common country.
''If we create an atmosphere of COM
mercial friendliness between the busy
marts upon the Lagan and the reviving
ones upon the Lee, we shall do more to
bring about truly united ireland
than could be effected by all the polit-
ical *orations delivered in a century to
come within the limits Of our sea
boundaries.
"Of course one would require the
agency of O. magician's art to heal at
once the dissensions of centuries, but
that they can and will be, gradually
cured by the ministrations Of close
inter-industria1 relations is apparent. to
the thoughtful mind. While imperial
acts of ameliorative legislation, tend
ing to show that the hand of concilia
ton is being advanced, it now becomes
the duty of Irishmen to recast upon
nobler lines their future relations inter
Sc. ! Industry rightfully knows nc
sectional Hines Before it's influence
the memory of the struggle at the
Boyne is forgotten, and Derry's walls
sink at once into oblivion. The atmos
to the, prolongation of internecine
Mystery In kidnapping.
A strange kidnapping case in Dublin
SAAA@SeAASOA
the romance and mystery of the story
One Saturday evening a: little CIR
named Ogilvie was carrying her baby
brother home, accompanied by another
brother just old enough to toddle, .wher
a fashionably dressed woman stopped
the children just outside Westland row
station, admired the baby, remarked
that it was too heavy for the girl t.
carry and took it in her own arms
Then she gave the two elder children
some money to buy sweets with. While
they ran off delighted to the nearest
sweet shop she disappeared with thu
baby.
Naturally the affair caused much es
citement. The police were communi
Gated with, but they failed utterly Il
get on the track of the kidnapper. Blu
late on the following Tuesday night
three days later-another member, O.
the Ogilvie family, boy of IA, wa
standing on the corner Of Westlan,
row, when a well-dressed woman, carry
ing baby, attired as only wealth,
people can afford to dress their infants
stopped the boy and asked him to sum
mon cab. When the vehicle arrived
she pushed him into it, handed him tn
baby, slipped half sovereign into hi
hand and told him to leave the bah,
at the address to which the cabma1
would drive.
To his establishment it was his owl
home to which the cabman drove. TIL
baby turned out to be the missin,
Ogilvie baby. By an extraordinar,
coincidence the well-dressed woman
presumably the same. woman who ha,
originally kidnapped it-had delivere,
the, little fellow into his own brothr'
hands: But the lad did not recogniz
him in his costly fnery.
Now the question arises, did tn
mysterious fashionable woman reall
intend to- kidnap the child9. Or di
she merely desire to play the role o
the fairy godmother? The Ogilive
the poor folk. They have got thei
baby back, none the worse for it's SC
iourn in strange hands and with
better outfit than they could ever affor
to buy for it. They are content to lie
the matter drop. But for week tn
police have been trying to find tn
woman without success. ''>
Jockey as Croker's Partner.
It is rumored in the Currag h--whic
is Ireland's Newmarket-that HDan
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