Robert Elsmere has not been the only one to rebel against the tyranny of the Squire, Ireland's story contains too many black pages of, wrongs and cruelties meted out to fgnants who were never docile, Sr. Lloyd George has won his greater fame over his zeal for land reform, with perhaps a bout or two still to fight. In Southern Italy, we are told, the owner of Inrge tracts of land, under the old system, often' could not tell where his borders were, He might ride all day passing' out of "Monarch of all 1 survey! ambition of the high and mighty. [And this, not in one land, but in many.
Tu modern times the tiller of the sell in many lands has seen the fruit his labours goto. enrich the "owner" who did nothing. to earn existence, In fact large. lund: owners have been found. in every and, and there are usually those in humbler circumstances who have been foreed to the position of tenants. As long as the "will to power" remains among ts there will be those who seek to gain their ends through the power of mo and the concentration of wealth will be the normal thing. The measure of benefit and disadvantage to both landlord and tenant will depend upon the laws, customs and precedents that have become established and rooted in the natures of the peoples. These are not easily altered and will remain long after: agitators, legislators and others have done their best, or their worst, change the existing conditions,
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