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sentatives of the tenants had had any ofiV 



The Irish Parliamentary ind 



the official association of the Irish landlords felt 

 themselves, in a certain sense, set in the back- 

 ground; and in both orgai here were 



reme elements who, on the one side, were not 



Durable to a continuance of the land-purchase 



1 on the other, hated all idea of a 



peaceful settlement, on the ground that it would 



ke it more difficult to carry on the national 

 agitation. \\'ynlh.im succeeded, with rare tact, 



overcoming these difficulties. Even in Parlia- 

 ment he was able to commit Redmond and 

 O'Brien so deeply to his Bill that the Irish Pa 

 can never rid themselves of their responsibility 

 for the Act of 1903.* 



me th.u the recognized Landlords' Convention 



refused to approve the project of the Conference, but a 



iscite taken among the Irish landlords in general accorded 



approval by a sweeping majority. On the other side, an 



proof of the completeness of the ascendency of 



the political over all other interests in Nation land was 



n in the i n this Conference, where the fate of the 



vas to be decided, not a single tenant 



farmer had a voice. Trans/.] 



9 O'Brien has had to pay for his championship of the 

 Coir rogramrae by suffering a sort of political excom- 



munication, pronounced against him by the Fireman's Journal, 

 the chief organ of the Nationalist pat >n of the 



nan is q gible. O'Brien was imprudent enough 



to declare his satisfaction with a measure of reform. For 

 proposals relating to Ireland, it is regarded as axiomatic that 

 btmfeia obtruduntur. 



