The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-10-24
A NATIONS H[MORRHAG[
A Plea For Industrial Indepen-
dence.


have no doubt, says Rev. NJ.
Phelan, S. j.. in the Messenger of
the Sacred Heart" but you OCCASION
ally sigh over the one great social
evil that overshadows all others:
Emigration-the outflow of nations
life-blood. Wherever you turn, it
stares you. The titled fields growing
fewer every year. the grass plains
spreading, the villages dwindling to
wretchedness; the rooftrees by the
roadside falling in. Ones heart is
touched by the sobbing groups of
emigrants at the railway station.
But the question wears a more
serious aspect still when we turn to
statistics. Up to the past few years
we were losing forty thousand people
a year. Now, Stuart Mill tells us
that every boy costs this country
$1,000 up to his eighteenth birthday,
and every girl $3.50. Up to that age
they were consumers, and produced
little.
The Kernels of the Nation Go, Leav-
ing the Husks.
This means that Ireland sends
$35,000,000 worth of human cargo
each year into the emigrant ship. 1t
is awful! Yet worse remains to be
told. Who go? Is it the average
population? No. The young, the
healthy. the ruddy. Who remain?
The weak, the old, the imbecile. The
husks of the nation are with us, the
kernels are gone. Just think Of it.
If this National hemorrhage is not
stopped. the children whipping their
tops to-day will, in fifty years time.
see the last page of Ireland's history
written and the brutal prophecy of
the London "Times" fulfilled: 1.-THE
Celtic 1rishman in Connemara will
be then as scarce as the Red Indian
on the Island of Manhattan"
Criminal Expenditure of Irish Money.
Can I staunch this life wound?
You can, for you are one of the GRIM
inals that keep it open. Come. let
us examine your conduct. You rise
in the morning from bed that has
been made in Sheffield. and turn out
from blankets that were made in New
York; you strike match that came
from Sweden to light lamp that
came from Austria. Go, then, and
examine every article of your attire,
and answer your conscience. Where
did they come from? When you sit
down to breakfast examine every art
icle on the table and ask yourself
where We're they made? ,...,,
You then read magazine-Eng,
fish, of course, while there Ia a
wealth of Irish talent rushing te de-
spair from the country; yell and
others who are pouring SAt $780,
900. of Irish money fer English mag
azines and papers, How many Irish
rooftrees would that $2,5oo.ooo keep
standing? You take a walk down and
Irish lahe in a pair of Northampton.
made boots. you are paying a visit
OF Charity to the starving family OF
an Irish shoemaker. Northampton
gets your guinea, and Ireland Kets
your tear.
You now come to dinner. let m,
take the smallest item o. your tabl,
mustard. We have t. 90 Irish mus
tard factories. yet we airport ninety
two thousand pounds worth Of must
a. ara every year. S .urely one woul,
think that Ireland ean,1 s,,oAlaitce it
own bacon Yet s7,5oo,eeo of gu
oes vows Ate Canadian pocket
~, e'"'1u Not Poor, But Mad.
.o, ,.o". !" .axve4fng ut our Suicide
sroy > ~ with ray that at least v
w. w." ~ ur own onions. We 10 no
~ ~ $$bN60 every year TO othe'
row fhafh for us. For Englis
.nutaaettred goods we pay $3.50
100000 yearly. How dare anyo'
cali ireland poor since her gold'
. beWhty flows over the broad cart
- INTO every pocket'except the poke
= or her own children. The man tn
- caifs'Ifefand 4poor" is wrong. but t
..I man that cailsSireland mad is near
he the 4dark.
al with these figures before you al
a Yer: Need: single child of 1rela
iii. seek the emigrant ship, If we VIC
We true to ourselves? Do your duty. tn
ity in stopping the Nations hemorrha
dr. Take care that everything in ye
ing home, from match to carriage,
ak of Irish manufacture. Preach
The gospel to others. Encourage tn
ely to stretch out their hands to X
lch our pure girls and good boys IF
lief the awful fate that befalls SO ms
He Of them in foreign countries.
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