Distress in Ireland.
'Miis is the old tnlc. and come* round year by year. Famine-, in Donegal ami other units is said to b<> rapid' y advancing, and the Govprnn cut seeing tlmt. the real cau^e is chronic, and is due to overcrowding, have do- ermined to *enf'orco the workhouse test, and at the same tinu 1 t> ri:Cf)iira»-n cm i^ration to the c h mics and m'irratioii to oth<>r parts of Ireland where \;iu<\ can bn faK'pn up. and this iij.piner.t liMrshie-s, but reol kindness, forms a rino t-xf lor the Home Kul'T?, who birtcrly r«pruach t!ie Kxcjutive for n'.t drawing 1 money fiom the ratr-payer* to maintain the j>edp!e in theii wretched hovels, ond perpetuate a state ot things which annually turnishes a standing subject from which they can draw ample matter for attacks on the hated Saxon, and they point to the wretched condition of these peasants us instance of the incapacity of the rulirijr powers. — Home Paper,
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 104, 15 May 1883, Page 3
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161Distress in Ireland. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 104, 15 May 1883, Page 3
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