. Ireland yesterday and today . to see for himselfhow the people are living and what measure of justice theyhave won. Let it be said at once that the change is nothingshort of marvelous. It was a dark picture seven years ago,but that picture is fading. Seven years is a brief span in thelife of a nation, and this generation will not see the last ofinjustice. But the reformation has begun. Thousands uponthousands of families which were suffering want are now con-tented and near to prosperity. Many evils have been wipedout and others are marked to go. In the succeeding articleswe are to see a new
. Ireland yesterday and today . to see for himselfhow the people are living and what measure of justice theyhave won. Let it be said at once that the change is nothingshort of marvelous. It was a dark picture seven years ago,but that picture is fading. Seven years is a brief span in thelife of a nation, and this generation will not see the last ofinjustice. But the reformation has begun. Thousands uponthousands of families which were suffering want are now con-tented and near to prosperity. Many evils have been wipedout and others are marked to go. In the succeeding articleswe are to see a new Ireland—a nation once more on theupgrade. The prediction made in 1902 that the governmentwould be compelled to take drastic action was soon a year the Wyndham Land Purchase Act was passed,increasing the powers of bodies engaged in undoing thewrongs of centuries, and for seven years these wise reformshave been in operation. What they have accomplished it isthe purpose of the present investigation to set AFTER SEVEN YEARS 107 To the student of history—and, indeed, to anyone whohas the faintest interest in human progress—the story of Ire-land must be fascinating. Americans particularly should findit attractive, not only because so large a proportion of themhave Irish blood, but because Ireland still suffers manyof the disabilities against which the American coloniesrevolted in 1775. Irelands afflictions under misrule andthe still surviving system of bad government will be discussedlater. These earlier letters are to deal chiefly with thereforms in the grotesque land system and the amazingchangesfor the better which have been wrought in the short periodof seven years. The testimony, in the main, will be thewriters personal observation, for he will visit the sameplaces he inspected before. But already there is evidencefrom a competent witness—a man whose inflexible opposi-tion to English government of Ireland during his whole lifegives weight to his
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