220 A LIFE'S WORK IN IRELAND. 



than half Ulster at this moment is dissatisfied with 

 the Tenant-right it has. Like all other protected 

 trades, more protection is wanted that more should 

 be taken from landowners and given to tenants with- 

 out payment for it. 



I believe these facts cannot be met. Parliament 

 has never yet taken away from one body of men that 

 which it has recognised for centuries to belong to 

 them, and given it to others, however strong the 

 reasons of public policy may have been, except by 

 paying the owners honestly for what is taken away. 

 Nor could the principles of the Land Act, passed so 

 lately as 1870, be thrown overboard without the for- 

 feiture of. all self-respect. 



I have been forced to use hard words about lying 

 and untruth much more often than I like. But there 

 was no choice. The extent to which these faults 

 prevail upon the subject cannot be realised out of 

 Ireland. 



The opinion expressed by M. de Molinari, that 

 there is no royal road to prosperity in Ireland, is the 

 very same that I have constantly expressed and acted 

 on for forty years past. He says, increased produc- 

 tion can alone make men to be better off. The pro- 

 duction may be from land or manufactures, it matters 

 not which, but more production there must be for 

 more prosperity. Misery may be relieved by poor- 

 laws or charity, and, rightly, from another motive. It 

 is only from increased production in some way a 





