MODEK 1 LAND AND HER 



AGRARIAN PROBLEM 



1'AKT !. Til!-. IK1-! AY. 



CHAPTER I. 

 ENGLAND'S FAILURE IN IRELAND, (a) POLITIC- 



SEVEN hur :\d thin ears have passed 



to-day 1 since the commun* 

 col* hind. Whilst the 



English colonization policy has, on the whole, 

 been successful in every quarter of the globe, 

 every reader of the newspapers is a\ iat, 



n at the present day, Ireland is not content 

 ; i its results. With the exception of t he- 

 north-eastern portion of Ulster, Ireland has not 

 conciled itself to English rule. Ulster 

 is c !ly a colonial s< nt. If we 



assume, as in a certain sense i hat 



the colonist population belongs to the Pro- 

 testant religion and the native population to the 

 Catholic, we find in Ulster a slight predomi- 

 nance of Protestantism and consequently of the 

 colonist element, since there are only 442 

 Catholics to 1,000 inhabitants in that 



1 [The standpoint in time of this work may be taken as the 

 year 1905, for though a portion of it appeared at an ea- 

 period, the statistics have, where necessary, been brought up 

 to da notes. Trans/.] 



