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CHAPTER XII. 



ULSTER TENANT-RIGHT. 

 DECEMBER 1, 1880. (Partly from Macmillan's Magazine.) 



IN discussing the proposed remedies -for Irish diffi- 

 culties it is needful to bear clearly in mind the facts 

 that have been established in former papers, before all 

 things, the thorough Scheming and falsehood that run 

 through everything said and done in Ireland. It has 

 been suggested to me that out of Ireland it will not 

 be understood what is meant by scheming. It is the 

 working to make personal gain out of everything, 

 small or great, without respect to truth or honesty, 

 e.g. saying that tenants have brought the land out of 

 a valueless state by nature into productiveness ; that 

 they have made valuable permanent improvements, 

 that they are charged unduly high rents, and their 

 improvements taken advantage of by the landlords ; 

 that they are treated with hardness and capriciously 

 evicted these are statements almost wholly untrue, 

 and if in a few cases true, are only so in part. They 

 are put forward as the ground for every sort of unjus- 

 tifiable claim, in hope of getting some personal gain. 



