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Show TO HELP "IRELAND. The ham or $3,000,000 Waaled frera Am.rrlca to Mftt tl BUtreij EXISTING IN THE EMERALD ISLC. btnator Kennedy's R-ccnt Atlicl Upon the .Senate and hN CcllM., qaay. SEVERAL PITHY ITEMS FROM PARIS. The Rrmilna of Join Errircaon Landed ta Stockholm. Trie Flooili. Bf Taleiravh to the Jfraja.l roRiBELtxo'.H rtELinr. America Will IltAiIiril Ta Glae Her Aaatafanee. DceOS, SepL U Before winter sets in the people of America will beaArdtoaend at least $5,000,000 lo the west coast of Ireland for tin!1 relief or tbr hungry. John Dillon said today that be and hiscolleagurs expect to raise half a million dollars for a plan of caniaIzo alone, but money doled out u truer the juan of campaign, lo feed and houee evicted teuau's, will mot do much togivu Immediate relief fur the widespread destitution, If not actual famine, which Is bow admitted even in Dublin Castle, to be Inevitable. The money euUcribcd through the National .League or the Tenants' Defense is applied tolely. .for the benefit of the tenants who have defied their landlords and are homeless home-less through their adherence to the principles laid down by tho leaden, of the Irish -National movement. John Dillon, who makra the disbursement dis-bursement under the plan of campaign, cam-paign, aaya that he has now thirteen hundred families to support, with an average of five people to each family. It now cost on an avenge of $5,tXW ach week simply to support sup-port Une evicted tenants, without Uklncintoaccouutlbe money expended ex-pended in efrcting new buildings for them to live lu, and other ex-penfea ex-penfea incidental to carrying on the war against landlordism. By their lour iu.Anicrica, Dillon and O'Brien expect to ralee money enough to carry on the I'LAX OF CAMI-AIGX until the next general election; but for tho purpcte of Immediate relief their funds will be available for let than 10,000 jieopte. On the other hand, it will bo largely under the mark" to tay that three thou-aud people In congested districts along the cit coast will bo uttrly destitute desti-tute of food before snow fall. John Dillon gave-mo some details of the American trip of the Irieli member:. He will tail on the Teutonic OctoUr let, with O'Brien and Timothy Harrington. Ho others aie settled on at present, though two moro may go. Dillon feels confident of going, though the rarnrll-0"heii case has been trotted out purposely to eubprcna Dillon as a wJloif", with n view to prevent the American tour. BaluLury is trying to keep O'Brien at home by bankruptcy proceediEgs. The members will spend two weeks in Sew York and then scatter. scat-ter. Dillon will work westward to Montana and tbe mining ngions. AH will return home In January. Balfour's main remedy this year will be to build three, or pctiUy more,narruw.uge railrondisw hich he baa been rotn!e!ng to build for three yeam but unlets he carries this remedy to an extreme by building build-ing of railroads in remote regions, hem there Is m 'articular u-e for them, a very tmall proportion of the distressed people will be btm fitted by them. The other remedy that Jullour has in view aud means to push hard, affects Americans more seriously. That remedy Is emigration. emigra-tion. He estimates that at least a qunrterof a million of people can be tldpped from Ireland to our shores, lie known well these are net the sort of people we wnnL 1TIB NlcTORTTXE OK YEAIta has drained the west coat of Ireland Ire-land of lb youug men andnomen, leaving the mud huts there filled nith tiiii aged and infirm, but by shipping these people to Canada and Mil ng them get acrots the Canadian border as best they can, Balfour hopes to evadeour emigration laws. Amusements are already In pro gre9 to this effect. Balfour has immediate im-mediate command cT a fund of a million dolhrs voted him by parliament parlia-ment for this purpose some timeago, but bleb, ire nas not used, lie liar as much more at lib dlspttal in ex-cet ex-cet of moneys voted for other purposes pur-poses of IrelanJ, but which hctuu eally turn to this account. However, it Is hot a Ink ol money which will upset this plan, tait a determination on the part of ihrse old lop!e, who are tho lal remnant of the pure Celtic race, not lo emigrate. Tin re paiish prltfU in theconznted district told me even Iftheyuted a'l their Influence to Induct the1 tnple to emigrate, theywoiiM not ! li-tVced tr-; Init -Hit of one million drrtltutepcpjlc, Balfour will proleibly succtvd In -hipping one hundred thousand (o Canada aud the United State. In l&Si and 1S53 more than ten thousand thous-and deaths were added to tbe usual death rate, due to the direct result of destitution, aud tl;hty thousand morn pauper (.migrants sought refuge in America in dKress. At least ninety thousand collieisdied in leas than a year's lime, and eighteen thousand mon of them hau emigrated; emi-grated; This gives some idea of the distress to be met with the com ing wiuter, If even the most hopeful predictions prove true made now by people In position to judge. Even the government agents scut cut ad mlt that, while the early reports of the potato blight were exaggerated, exaggerat-ed, thu outlook is at least aa unpromising un-promising ss In 1S79. |