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disturb their partnership so long as these re- 

 lations continued. But the preachings of 

 certain members of the community has aimed 

 at eradicating this sympathy. Traditions have 

 been abused and misrepresented, sentiment 

 scoffed at and belittled. No one feels these 

 attacks more deeply than the landlord, and 

 no one resents the injustice more bitterly than 

 his tenants. 



The present difficulties could not have hap- 

 pened at a time which was more unfortunate. 

 The disasters of the nineteenth century are 

 being forgotten. The depressing effect has 

 taken many years to remove, but it is gradu- 

 ally being shaken off*. And, with a tendency 

 to better prices, the whole outlook is brighter 

 than it has seemed for years. Such an 

 economic displacement can never again occur, 

 and the industry appears to be slowly adapting 

 itself to the new circumstances. The farmers 

 are well content with the old conditions, and 

 have no wish for any disturbance of a system 

 that has been their mainstay for generations. 

 But they are not fully aware to what extent 

 their interests are threatened. Changes of 

 method and alteration in custom dawn late in 



