 | United States. Department of State - Labor - 1885 - 894 pages
...years in the United States — persons who may have left Ireland originally in poor circumstances aud are now evidently in good credit and prosperous (perhaps...laborers, male and female, make up the majority of emigrants to the United States ; clerks and mechanics furnish a small quota. In connection with this... | |
 | United States dept. of state - 1885 - 894 pages
...complained of by the tenant farmers of Ireland, yet though there has been a general reduction in the renta paid to landlords of 30 per cent., still the small...laborers, male and female, make up the majority of emigrants to the United States ; clerks and mechanics furnish a small quota. In connection with this... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce - Cost and standard of living - 1885 - 882 pages
...cent., still the small and poor farmer will choose to emigrate. Thelandlords have suffered greatlosses during these five years, but the country — as we...laborers, male and female, make up the majority of emigrants to the United States ; clerks and mechanics furnish a small quota. In connection with this... | |
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The political land agitation to which this country has been subject for the past five years has resulted in various acts of Parliament toward remedying the evils complained of by the tenant farmers of Ireland, yet though there has been a general reduction... 