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unts and leaseholders should 

 vluded; that arrears (as it afterwai 



1) should be wiped out. The working 

 sses ought to obtain bett 



holdings should be enlarg< 

 ( regui :ary party Jto- 



gether against t .1 Act, for they realized 



:iger that the populace might be pacifi- 



id found himself compelled to advise 

 tenantry to make only a slow and gradual 

 In this was possible for 



the same test cases 



new courts and to keep the national 

 mc\ r in control and the revolu- 



tionary m good humo 



The Lanu Act of 1881 was only the beginning 



of far-reaching reforms. The fall in prices of 



chief agricultural products continued ; it was 



:icularly strong in the year 1885 ; the potato 



icd in 1886. On this the Nationalist 



Banded a revision of the already fixed 



resettlement of the arrears 



;nd the admission of leaseholders 



to the Act. The Conservative Government 



dstone had fallen on the Home Rule 



stion refused these demands. Immediately 



on flamed up anew, and again the 



e factors were combined, the striving towards 



social reform, the desire to keep the national 



iw-Lefcvrc, " Agrarian Tenures," p. 119. 

 1 O'l ife of Parncll," I., p. 302. 



