anti-home-rule

Updated: May 17, 2025

I have facts showing that for years English poorhouses and hospitals were emptied of their inmates and shipped to America. It was a distinct policy of the anti-home-rule party in Ireland to encourage the poor Irish to go to America; and now when there are more Irish in America than in Ireland the fate of Ireland is assured.

- As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home