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Emperor's seisachtheia brought unexpected relief to the 

 land-owning peasantry. So have Roumania, Serbia and 

 Bulgaria — Serbia very much. And he must be blind who 

 does not see the great progress made in France. I can speak 

 as an ocular witness, having been a frequent traveller in 

 the rural parts of France, always comparing notes with 

 local agriculturists, taking stock of the condition of Agricul- 

 ture and attending, as a guest become familiar by repetition 

 of visits, agricultural congresses. The advance raade, 

 thanks, on the whole, to an enlightened policy pursued, is 

 very considerable. 



Why have we all alone stood still and, indeed, gone 

 backward ? 



\Vhen we have an exceptionally severe winter we hear 

 voices complaining that the Americans " must have turned 

 off the Gulf Stream." However, the superhuman beings 

 — Pandora and others— who direct human destinies can 

 scarcely have been so partial, and to ourselves so male- 

 volent, as to have sent all the good things of the celestial 

 Gulf Stream to our neighbours, all round about, leaving 

 Pandora to endow us all alone with her fateful godmother's 

 present. 



Besides, it is not the Continent only that we see pitted 

 against ourselves. Things have moved on satisfactorily 

 in America — on both sides of the Anglo-United States 

 frontier, as Mr. Wilson's latest Reports and those of his 

 colleagues at the Agricultural Department in Canada show. 

 And we may look still nearer home. Ireland has not yet 

 had " forty years " of the curative treatment, as one might 

 call it, of the favoured continental countries, that is, of 

 well-aimed organisation and a judicious agricultural policy. 

 But it has had a small dose and pro tanto it has advanced 

 at the same rate. 



Clearly there must be something in our agricultural 

 system which is in fault, which keeps us back and makes 

 adverse seasons tell with twofold gravity. If our landlords, 

 as Mr. Hall complains, will not " take the lead " in a move- 

 ment which so nearly concerns them ; if our tenants remain 

 unaffected by the brilliant examples set them by the 



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