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Show Why Millions are Leaving Ireland ! Ireland boated a population of ' nearly D.fiOn.riOii in IS 17 Today it 1 Utile more than 4,i"tu.uv, nearly .r0,-000 .r0,-000 of the f,ne:t. strongest, .iblest young people oi the country the (lower of the laud, an- annually et:ii grating, neatly fir, p. r cnt to tho L'nitid States," while wc:;t at lasi Mi per cent of the total immigration I rum Ireland In the last century nnd v.h.eio today people with a large prci-.itag" of Irish Wood number nm los; ;lun 2O,niio,fiO0. says Soum.ij McMam:.; im the Travel Magazine for February. At tho natural rales of increase, Ireland should have today, instead of -I.50.V 'm.'O Inhabitants, at least three lint a that number. With :i2,nun square mtl"s of l.tr '., tho greater portion of It except lunallv favorable for the racing I grant.-, roots, trulls and cattle; wlb magnificent magnifi-cent water power, a water pnwi-r equalled by few countries, and with Its well known, if developed, mineral re sources, Ireland is capable of support-. support-. ing in comfort and plenty 20,000,000 I people, adds Mr. McMaous, continuing: continu-ing: "Emigration has been a bltisnlng as well as a cure to Ireland. "While for sixty or seventy years It has gone on depriving Ireland of all that' wa healthiest and brainiest and best in the country, thus enervating the race at home, the Irish nation is not at the same time unmindful of the fact that the millions of American money poured home to Ireland in a steady j stream, has helped, through the trying decades that have gone by, to keep alive an Ireland at homo. Tn at luasi. twenty of the thirty-two countlei of I Ireland it Is rare to And a family that has not a representative in .America Some of the in have four or five, la all tho poorer mountainous counties that border the rugsed western coast , there Is hardly a comfortable new ; house erected that has not been crcct-ed crcct-ed by American money.' ' |