Let tile next Lmlgration be from the West to the East. instead of from the East to the Westfrom the hills of Connemara back to the fertile lands of Meath. When the resources of my country have been fully taken advantage of and developed. when the agricultural prosperity of Ireland has been secured. then if we have any surplus population we shall cheerfully give it to this great country. Then our emigrants will go willingly and as free mennot shoveled out by a forced emigration. a disgrace to the Government whence they come and to humanity in general. Then our emigrants would come to you as come the Germans. with money in their pockets. and education to enable them to obtain a good start in this great and free country. with sufficient means to enable them to push out to your western lands. Instead of remaining about the eastern cities. doomed to hard manual labor. and many of them falling prey to the worst evils of modern city civilization. I have noticed within the last few days a very remarkable refutation to this argument of overcrowding. in one of the newspapers of this countrythe Nationa journal. I believe. distinguished in the walks of literature. and whose opinion is entitled to very great weight and consideration. The Nation says: "That the best remedy for Irish poverty is to be found in the multiplication of peasant properties and not by emigration. as many suppose. there is little question. Emigration is good for those who emigrate. but it leaves gaps in the home population which are soon filled by a fresh povertystricken mass. A writer in the London Times. giving an account of the island of Guernsey. shows that it supports in marvelous comfort a population of thirty thousand by the cultivation of ten thousand acres. while Ireland has a cultivable area of 15.500.000 acres. and would. if as densely peopled as Guernsey. support a population of fortyfive million instead of five million." "The climate of Guernsey. too. Is as moist as that of Ireland. and the island Is hardly any nearer the great markets.
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