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Show BISHOP NIATZ PAYS THE FREIGHT. The appeal which the bishop of Denver will soon make to his clergy and people to furnish means tfor shipping Colorado potatoes to Ireland is the first intimation of actual famine in that country which "comes to hand. Hitherto reports have been contradictory. Michael Davitt is quoted as against exaggerated stories printed in English newspapers, adding that in the district affected by the "potato rot" famine is the rule year in and year out. Peasants Peas-ants in the prosperous sections of the omntry,- he said, helped their less favored neighbors. Probably Prob-ably the Irish patriot was irritated over the insinuation insin-uation that his countrymen were beggars and would remain beggars; and his resentment was visible in the declaration that, Irishmen could live happily in plenty if they were given control of their own affairs. This is no doubt true, but the mere assertion of a fact, does not fill a hungry belly. The humiliation humilia-tion of begging for food does not hurt the Irishman Irish-man so much if his hand is extended to Americans rather than to. Englishmen. Probably the English people have enough to do attending to their own beggars, and it is quite-likely that the distress of London's poor is greater than it is represented to be in Connemara. Xo matter; Colorado has raised enough potatoes to spare twenty carloads for Ireland, Ire-land, and Bishop Matz and his people will pay t life-freight. life-freight. '. . .. V notice in Irish exchanges that a meeting of j the Irish parliamentary party was held recently in Dublin to discuss the distress in the west of Ireland. John Redmond acted as president of the meeting. Resolutions were passed condemning the government and demanding aid. The resolutions maintain that the proper temporary remedy, is not charity, but the starting of works which will be of permanent utility in the distressed districts, enabling en-abling the people to earn their livelihood by honest labor. It is declared that the provision of fresh potato seed is of urgent, necessity, but the memorialists me-morialists feel bound to point out that this measure meas-ure will be ineffective for the relief of distress before be-fore August next. The final resolution is as follows: "We feel bound to condemn in .the strongest terms the conduct con-duct of Irish landlords in aggravating the distress by pressing for full rent's and arrears processes by wholesale." : |