It is the old story, "you are idle, you are idle,"-- it is the old demand, "make bricks without straw,"-- and then, by way of climax, we are assured that these "poor creatures" are assisted to emigrate with the tenderest consideration, and that, in fact, emigration is a boon for which they are grateful.
It is quite true that many landlords pay their tenants to emigrate, and send persons to see them safe out of the country; but it is absolutely false that the people emigrate willingly.

No one who has witnessed the departure of emigrants dare make such an assertion.

They are offered their choice between starvation and emigration, and they emigrate.

If a man were offered his choice between penal servitude and hanging, it is probable he would prefer penal servitude, but that would not make him appreciate the joys of prison life.

The Irish parish priest alone can tell what the Irish suffer at home, and how unwillingly they go abroad.
A pamphlet has just been published on this very subject, by the Very Rev.P.Malone, P.P., V.F., of Belmullet, co.