156 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



independent of local employment, and his 

 position in a wealthy country like this will 

 enable him in its future progress to obtain 

 his due share of the rewards of industry and 

 skill. The extension to the counties of house- 

 hold suffrage will, ere long, give him that 

 political position to which he is equally entitled 

 with his brethren, the artisans and labourers, 

 who are householders in towns. 



