A LIFE'S WORK IN IRELAND. 



the work by tlie inucli-ubused landlords, had better 

 well consider the question. It may be relied on, 

 there is no need to add to the inducement for any 

 man of education not to live in Ireland, and but for 

 the pleasure and profit of seeing an estate improve, 

 very few would undergo it. To few can it prove 

 more profitable than it has done to me. Besides the 

 gain from an improved estate, the rent of which 

 hitherto has been paid with very little trouble and no 

 ill-will from the tenants, and from very successful 

 farming, I bought much land after the famine, which 

 has paid me well. 



Yet, in spite of such gain, and the pleasure of 

 seeing one's people thriving, and being on such terms 

 with them, it is a sorely heavy drag to live here. 

 And though I have seen as lovely a place grow up 

 under my hands as can be found m the South of 

 Ireland, if the Government likes to pay the honest 

 value of it aU, I shall gladly leave it, and think my 

 son a gainer by the change. This by the way. 



These are some of the practical objections to 

 making the Ulster Tenant-right compulsory, and to 

 that modification which some have described as " The 

 Three F's — Fixity of tenure, Fair rents, valued by 

 County Court judges, and Free liberty to the tenant to 

 sell his interest. All these plans have the same evils 

 as Ulster Tenant right. 



There are other objections on principle in every 

 way. A number of witnesses in favour of Tenant- 



