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elements of weakness, for it is just these who most 

 need the rent-reduction in the shape of which land 

 purchase presents itself to them. One can assert 

 h confidence that th< \Vyndham Act will at 

 great expens< imcrous peasant own 



sards haw ir farms as 



iependent proprietors. ^ >ne in Ireland 



i declare openly for a system of economic 

 vivnliation in Irish life. A feeling for equality, 

 dt a very superficial kind of equality, comes 

 in all agitation and is destined to 

 bring many oiiu-r dangers for the new agrarian 

 onl reductions of rent are different on 



es. e peasants who bought 



unt Ashbourne Acts are under differ 



conditions from those who bought under the 

 Wyndham Act. The obligations of the one will 

 cease before those of the others. Second- term 

 rents have been reduced by 21 per cent., first- 

 term by 26 per cent. On one estate the rents 

 are reduced by 2s. in the/"i, on another by 8s. 

 Why these inequalities? Of course there are 

 .ich experts will recognize as decisive; 

 but they will not console those who are on the 

 unfavourable side of the difference. I do not 

 believe that the English Government will ever 

 have to meet anything like a great national 

 ike against rent it has only to withhold the 

 grants .rve out the local 



bodies but local ilimculties will always be 

 occurring in Ireland so long as success and 

 lure remain factors in the agricultural situation. 



