The world: historical and actual . nds died of starvation, and vastly moresought relief in emigration to this country, some toEngland. It is estimated that over 2,000,000 cameto America between the years 1851 and 18T3, andthat there are more Irish, including their children,in the United States than in Ireland. There arecertainly more in New York City than in English and the landlords do not regret thisloss of population, for they prefer cattle and sheep that reasonable men among them expected, or evendemanded, down to the year before its passage. Itsecures to all tenants throughout
The world: historical and actual . nds died of starvation, and vastly moresought relief in emigration to this country, some toEngland. It is estimated that over 2,000,000 cameto America between the years 1851 and 18T3, andthat there are more Irish, including their children,in the United States than in Ireland. There arecertainly more in New York City than in English and the landlords do not regret thisloss of population, for they prefer cattle and sheep that reasonable men among them expected, or evendemanded, down to the year before its passage. Itsecures to all tenants throughout the sister island theright of free sale for which Ulster was wont to beenvied. It gives them the privilege of getting the• fair rent of their holdings fixed by the court, andof obtaining what is in fact a statutory, or lease forfifteen years, renewable at the end of the term. Itextends the authority of the tribunal created to ad-minister the new law over contracts of the most sol-emn and stringent character, so that leaseholders. to men and women; butter and beef, wool and mut-ton, to potatoes. In this country the industriouscitizen, irrespective of nationality, is a public bene-factor, whatever his employment. That the Irishimmigrant is welcome here and the Irish emigrantbidden godspeed there, is a difference largely dueto different economical conditions and circumstancesof nature. The London Times, thus briefly sums up the Irishland bill, which became a law in August. 1881, afterone of the most memorable of parliamentary strug-gles, extending over seven months : It gives the tenant farmers all, and more than all may not be excluded from the benefits of the greatly enlarges the opportunities for the creationof peasant proprietory with the aid of public chief cities of Ireland are Dublin, Belfast,Cork, Limerick. Londonderry and Queenstown. Theriver Liffey, flowing through Dublin, divides it intotwo nearly equal parts. The population is about350,000. The form
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