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Show Irish Emigration Increases.. In spite of all the efforts to check emigration from Ireland, the returns for the nine months, ending with September, Sep-tember, show a big increase. During the first three months of the year there was a substantial decline, but in April a rush of emigrants began, which has swollen the tide to a figure much beyond be-yond previous years. The total number num-ber for the nine months is 30,081, as compared with 26,215 last year. The increase is less from congested and poverty-stricken districts than from the mora prosperous provinces. Of the emigrants em-igrants to America. 8,336 had their passages pas-sages prepaid by friends in this country. coun-try. If the increase is maintained until the end of the year, over 35,000 young Irish men and Irish women will have left Ireland in the three months. These figures prove conclusively that the steps thus far taken to make Ireland Ire-land attractive to its younger people have not been successful. jNewark Monitor. Maybe the republican government will change the name of America sometime some-time in the future to New. Ireland. |