Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — Help for Ireland. [ARTICLE]

Help for Ireland.

Posttnaater General reports lhatHast year 391,882 persons in this country Sent money Jay postal Order to relatives iq/Great Britain and Ireland , the total Bum amounting to about 15,250,000, while 78,340 persons in Canada sent over 51,009,000 in the same way, and the total sum sent in that way from Australia, the United States, and South Africa in the year was over $9,000,000, or an average of over $30,000 a day, coming from 635,258 persons. A writer thinks that this shows what filial regard the British race has for the parents left behind.