Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — Irish Emigration will Go On. [ARTICLE]

Irish Emigration will Go On.

Michael Davitt says in substance that the Irish in America are helping the English in Ireland by “ehcouragtng our people to desert -our country” —lreland. Mr. Davitt says that during the last fifteen years 500.000 young men and women have come from that islan. to the United States to stay here Thus Ireland has lost a quarter of a m Zion fighting men. That is eight times the number of the Boers who have been fighting England for two years and who are "still unconquered and unconquerable.” “Unless this drain is stopped,” says Mr. Davitt. "the Celts in Ireland will be in the minority, which means that the conquest of our country after its hundreds of years of resistance will have been all but consummated." Mr. Davitt has made great sacrifices for the cause which is dear to his heart. There is no sacrifice probably which he would not make to further what he takes to be the best interests of bis native land. But he cannot reasonably expect Irishmen who have become citizens of America to be as devoted to the cause as he is or to make as many sacrifices for it. So he is not fair when he taxes them with "helping England,” and upbraids them for doing so much lees than Mr. Davitt thinks they ought to have done to help on the cause—Chicago Tribune.