. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 1868 A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. IN FIVE Fixity of Tenure, cte. UCH stress has been laid by the Irish party upon emigration as afifording an undoubted proof of misgovernment. The fact of large masses abandoning their country in search of labour, while within the country there are large tracts of land unimproved and undeveloped, does appear enigmatical, but, as already stated, the circumstances of the last twenty years demanded a change in the numb
. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 1868 A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. IN FIVE Fixity of Tenure, cte. UCH stress has been laid by the Irish party upon emigration as afifording an undoubted proof of misgovernment. The fact of large masses abandoning their country in search of labour, while within the country there are large tracts of land unimproved and undeveloped, does appear enigmatical, but, as already stated, the circumstances of the last twenty years demanded a change in the number and habits of the people, and what has been the result ? Do we find land unoccupied ? Do we find in- creased pauperism or increased crime ? No. The change that has been brought about is, that we miss the once half-fed, ill clad peasant—the mass of struggling humanity who were hardly in a position to keep body and soul together ; and we have now an enlarged sphere of action for those who remain. Two men are not now looking to reap the one blade of corn, but the one is able by the aid of appliances to effect, secure, and enjoy that which heretofore he could never have accom- plished. No longer, then, requiring assist- ance in the production, I do not see how he would be benefited in having an additional mouth to aid him in the consumption. Apart from this, America has inducements to off"er to men of every country, who do not occupy an established position at home, boundless VOL. I. acres of maiden fertility, with a freedom of thought and action, and, in some parts, im- munity from the heavy taxation which the luxuries and habits of an old country must necessarily impose. In the free atmosphere of the republic, too, such as have disliked the restraint imposed by their clergy in secular as well as religious matters, have an addi- tional inducement for emigration. Here an independent course would be met by per- secution, and the number of channels through which it would be
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