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CHAPTER X.
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The Irish Exodus—Emigration, its Dangers by Sea and Land—Captain and Crew well matched—How Things were done Twenty Years since—The Emigration Commission and its Work—Landsharks and their Prey—Finding Canal Street—A Scotch Victim—The Sharks and Cormorants—Bogus Tickets—How the 'Outlaws' resisted Reform—The New System—The days of Bogus Tickets gone—A Word of Advice—Working of the System—Intelligence and Labour Department—Miss Nightingale's Opinion—Necessity for Constant Vigilance—The last Case one of the Worst |
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CHAPTER XI.
Evil of remaining in the great Cities—Why the City attracts the new Comer—Consequence of Overcrowding The Tenement Houses of New York—Important Official Reports—Glimpses of the Reality—An inviting Picture—Misery and Slavery combined—Inducements to Intemperance—Massacre of the Innocents—In the wrong Place—Town and Country |
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CHAPTER XII.
The Land the great Resource for the Emigrant—Cases in Point—An Irishman socially redeemed—More Instances of Success on the Land—An Irish Public Opinion wanted—Irish Settlements in Minnesota and Illinois—The Public Lands of America—The Coal and Iron of America—Down South—A Kildare Man in the South—Tipperary Men in the South—The Climate of the South—California an Illustration of the true Policy |
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CHAPTER XIII.
California of the Past and Present—Early Irish Settlers—Death amid the Mountains—Pat Clark. But One Mormon—The Irish wisely
settle on the Land—How they Succeeded in the Cities—Successful Thrift.—Irish Girls—The Church in San Francisco—What a poor Irishman can do |
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CHAPTER XIV.
Drink more injurious to the Irish than to others—Why this is so—Archbishop Spalding's testimony—Drink and Politics—Temperance
Organisations—Hope in the Future |
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