ABSTRACT
For the purpose of raising the condition of the poorest families in the poorest districts of Ireland, by assisting the emigration to the United States or Canada of ONE ABLE-BODIED MEMBER OF EACH FAMILY’ specially selected on account of her poverty, good character and industrious habits, with the natural expectation that she will afterwards, from her earnings in America, extend that assistance to the remaining members of her family in imitation of the notorious and very characteristic example of hundreds of thousands of the very poorest class of Irish emigrants, who have most affectionately and generously so devoted their hard earnings during the last few years, thus exhibiting a most noble example of Christian charity to their superiors in wealth and intellectual education.
