The Depopulation of Ireland.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1658, 15 March 1886, Page 3

The Depopulation of Ireland.

•TKoMost Rev; Dr D'nggari, the Irish • Roinau Catholic Bishop of Glonfeit, is responsible sfor the following statement; of jjthe rapid deDopulation of Ireland. It islakeafrom the columns of an. Irish pAen^r-the Weekly \ Freeman.' He is ttfere reported to haye'said, iii reply to ' ah'^PeVsmadeto niin^'lfeel it a grSfC^ViWlege- and gratification t6 nierit tW>goddWill:ofthe influehti«l, ; discriminating, and patriotic people of Ballin- ' *tofifmFf>r; the -part I took m the agi t«tiftn (^p'r the great social reforms now welLjwitUib, reach of^ accomplishment I ct"isnot reclaim any credit, inasmuch as I iftfStfi^r** 'conrinoe'd I was oblyper-foWiffit-uiy Simple 'duty. 1 saw 'a ii6ble rlM^ling annihilated > bifofe my eyefe. ' I •aw.«*minibn dying of famin>,Uautl : - aqhfcherfmjllion expoitedin ocean ViParßcp' • in^^i^earg., ,1 saw iu f my own i lifetimeifie population reduced from nearly nihe millrons ' to'spuiewhat 'oyor^ : four inilfiol?^ ; ia^d" tit\% ''^elwcjßii imrajgrati&S'WAh -evictions, tho Irish are dissappaffrfrfg^at therate of about one bun- ""' dred and fifty : thousand a year. At •oaM t rite !tlie utter extinction of the Iryd^inithßir.ownland is , piily agues- ; tion of Jtime. ' ; ITlie effects pf , this,; are vynble^iri Ihos? cycles of Btaryatiou,.hnd &o%adi\ftl'm tlie ever' rec'ufring rittle ofHfle»b'effging : b6x for alms to the hu in%ni ahd'bharitableian over^the civi- «' lifß^«wfolff<. naSrey; ateuviaible; m- the BtTOto.Woisr>deß6ited towns;: Thepeo- . pl^S^q^crpwdetl our markets and ■' chasea £roodt off our shopkeepers .nave been cleared away -to m»ke room for bkUp' au'^fcattlb. ' Iri syiririathisin'g'with " anV^ai^ng' the* agitation "to. put an 'end foVWv'B^tothiß ; depletion I was only dointeirhat^ibeHevKd to be a duty of con•'%wsvnum%a):c ',■•>*■■ ,;>■> ■;.*; .;'• .'•'■-■:■■> ■■■■■