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Trade were recognised, has been done in all other busi- 

 ness dealings amongst us. Or whether, because some 

 Irish tenants are poor and backward, and seek to get 

 a money advantage for themselves whether rightly or 

 wrongly, a fixed artificial system is to be set up for 

 this end, depriving owners of their honest reversion- 

 ary rights. It has never been thought that to give 

 largess to a pauper will cure him of his beggary, 

 still less of indolence and love of drink. Every- 

 where else in the world industry and self-exertion 

 are counted the only road to prosperity. 



