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No sooner was breakfast over than the conference on the land-purchase project was resumed, Madam Blennerhassett participating. "You propose," said Blennerhassett, "to buy forty thousand acres for forty thousand dollars, and you have the pledge of Mr. Clarke, of New Orleans, and of your son-in-law, Governor Alston, that they will stand surety for you.
The Irish tenant is now subject only to rents fixed by law; he can at any time sell the interest in his farm, which he has, therefore, a direct interest in improving; he is also assisted by a great scheme of land-purchase to become owner of his land on paying the price by terminable instalments, which are usually some 20 per cent. less than the amount he formerly paid as rent.
The circumstances above set forth do not pretend to be the whole story about modern Ireland, nor do they show that the millennium has arrived in that country. Apart from Home Rule, which is outside our present field, much still remains to be done there is elementary education to be advanced, commercial facilities to be developed, land-purchase to be completed.
Hence the frequent wars and chronic bad blood. Every African traveller knows the meaning of land-purchase in these regions. There are two ideas peculiar to the negro brain, but apparently inadmissible into European heads. The first is the non-alienation of land.
The first task of a Unionist government, when again in power, must be the resumption of this policy of State-aided land-purchase the only completely and unquestionably successful and pacifying piece of agrarian legislation in the history of English rule in Ireland. Other writers will give, later on, a more detailed account of various branches of Unionist practical policy in Ireland.
"If they have suffered wrongs," said the Quakers, "we are resolved to do all in our power to redress them, rather than entail upon ourselves and our posterity the calamities of a cruel Indian war." The Indian records were searched, and several days spent in unsuccessful efforts to prove fraud in a late land-purchase. Post after post still brought news of slaughter.
The Effects of Liberty Difficulty of Obtaining Accurate Information Pessimist Testimony of the Proprietors Vague Replies of the Peasants My Conclusions in 1877 Necessity of Revising Them My Investigations Renewed in 1903 Recent Researches by Native Political Economists Peasant Impoverishment Universally Recognised Various Explanations Suggested Demoralisation of the Common People Peasant Self-government Communal System of Land Tenure Heavy Taxation Disruption of Peasant Families Natural Increase of Population Remedies Proposed Migration Reclamation of Waste Land Land-purchase by Peasantry Manufacturing Industry Improvement of Agricultural Methods Indications of Progress.
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