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Show HOPE TO MINIMIZE I IRHRAT1 I Societies Labor Earnestly to H Prevent Exodus of Young m Men and Women. ASK PRESIDENT TO HELP M Appeal Made to Prohibit Per- 1 sons in America 'Sending I J Alluring Inducements. 1 1 BY AUSTIN P. MAGTJTR.I1. 3 I Special Cable to The Tribune. m S DUBLIN", April 0. Those leadors of jjll public opinion in Ireland who for ten iff yoars past or longer have been work- ! ing with all tho powers and moans at jjO? 1 their disposal to check the emigration jjBa j ovll are seeing at last somo ray of jj g The reports of tho labor troubles at ' 8 ' Lawronce, Mass., which havo como over to tho papers hore from their l $ American correspondents, havo done I , 'jj more to strengthen the hands of tho Anti-Emigration league than any other -. agency sinco tho league was started. . J Tho" publication broaflcapt of tho ! scale of wagos paid in the highly pro- tectcd mills of Lawrence and side by 1 side with tho scnlo of figuros of tho fc i cost of living havo sot thousands of j j! young men and women thinking that m it would bo much bettor, for thcci to S stay at home than to cross tho ocean in K search of fortune. c r" Emigration a Curse. Xext to landlordism is its worst form, jt h tho greatest curso of this island for j ft two generations has boon emigration. 5 Of conrso, all who know tho alphabot j h of Irish political and social life aro ' aware that landlordism and emigration j y- have been twins ovor since tho terrible famine, of lSi7. $ That famine nnd tho fearful results rrri that walked in Its wake, rosulted di- jj rcctly from landlord infamy and not C from anj' act of God, as the pious ovan- i B gclists who ran the soup kitchens used i ij fervently to suggest. ! j And it was landlordism which kept I h tho stream of emigration at floodtide ; !j from 1847 to tho present moment. For, I j though the feudal and heartless system k itself is dead or dying, tho ovil it rj worked in the j-eafa or its unbridled ; "j! iniquity still lives so far as cinigra- f b tion ia concerned, and is likely to stay h with us, for many years to cocio. " i ; But if it is to remain, thoso who A :( are fighting emigration will uparo no t offort to decrease tho volumo evory i year and hope to bo ablo ultimately to a reduce the flow to tho tiniest" of j V. streams. I j Tho number of emigrants in March ( i last year, was 2G1S. Thero is not much j S ground for hopo that tho number for i Murch this year will be much smaller. During January and February 1-10-1 -i i) voung men and young women left Tro- , : j land, most of th'om for the remainder i j of their lives. Moro than half of theao I went to tho United States. j Startling Economic Loss. i jj Ireland has been robbed by oraigra- 'J I tion of too many of her atrongost and j 'f most ambitious 3'outbs. Evetr young i ,. man and woman who went to America, fj Australia or Canada, bad boon fed, clothed and educated in Ireland from ' i infancy up to .manhood and womanhood. '' ? To leave their country when they had I i reached mnturitv was to inflict an ecun- t omic loss upon Ireland which a famom j statistician has figured amounts In vol- j- i! uine to many hundred million of pounds. ? f The National Council of Sinn Eoin ;: jj has a memorial to President Taft ask- 5 I ing tho American government to adopt y such measures as it may doom proper j J for tho correction or stoppage of cor- 1 H tain features which still mao cmigra- 1 n tion to America popular and attrao- j tive. j jj In tho forefront of theso is tho pro- f A paid passage ticket. It is estimated that one-third of the .emigrants from 5 Ireland do not pay their ovo passage. ij Thcv cross tho Atlantic on tickets sent f h to thorn by relatives or friends In tho f United States. The yeady njimber Jj of these propafd tickets is sajjj to "bo ij about 12,000- They aro tbo instruments n by which Ireland V dmjnid annually of whole regiments of her most capable Jj sons and daughters. tt There is a Jaw already in forco in 1 the United States which forbids any ( f person in any manner whatever to pre- f pav tho transportation of anv alien or f fofoigner into tho United States. 'c I Despito this law, it is afact wejl known :: that nearly all those assisted emi- ; i grants receive with their prepaid pae- I sago a promhve of work in America j 5 soon after arrival. j E Blame Steamship Agents. j t Much of the exodus from tljis country j m is directly due to tho activity of tho j U agents of steamship lines and to en- vm ticing letters from America whjch aro : written in many cases bv interested employers em-ployers with tho object of cecuring labor for less than tho American stan- J ; lard. . Tho unveiliuc of the labor conditions 3 in the Lawreuco mills has had a sober- 1 ing affect on tbo voung would bo crai- j grant from Ireland and ho is just be- j ginning to think that, after all, under J the now and bettqr conditions that havo -s come, he might do much worso than ro- j main at homo in Ireland. . ; As the Sinn IVin longer point put in j thejr letter to pTOSTTlcnt Taft. thp ex- j ; ireaaivc emigration which Is dcpxjvtpr Ireland of her most vigorous children ; is Fjmplv paxalvr.iuc her rural districts. I Labor is going to bo so difficult to ob- i tain that land in some districts has flfl simply gone out of tillage. XI The men or the system or company W which persists in sending alluring lot- Wl ters to young people in Ireland mav soon bo uncovered by tbo searchlight ' yof ruthJicity- Then their propaganda ; shall cease. |
