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Hibernicus. The Irish problem: what lacks the backward farmer most: security or skills?
The Irish problem: what lacks the backward farmer most: security or skills?
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The Irish problem: what lacks the backward farmer most: security or skills?
A PLEA FOR THE IRISH LAND
II. ABOUT LEASES
III. ABOUT LEASES (Part 2nd)
IV. LANDLORD AND TENANT IN ENGLAND
V. HOPE FOE IRELAND!
DESIDERATA FOR A TENANT RIGHT MEASURE
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Hibernicus
Published by Good Press, 2020
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This is the sort of sketch which the Intelligent Foreigner would make of our country and our countrymen; admitting of course that he had only picked out the salient points of backwardness and neglect, on the principle that good landlords and well-to-do tenants and trim farms, however plentiful they might be throughout the country, were nothing more than one had a right to expect to find in any civilized land at the end of the 19th century, so that only the negligent landlords or tenants were deserving of special attention as causing blots on the face of the landscape which had no business to be there.
What cure, then, would be devised for the evil by the impartial observer? Again, and again the words are being reiterated, until they will soon become a bye-word:—"Compel the had landlord by law to do that which the good landlord would do from a sense of duty!" Well and good—but is that sufficient? Is there no counterpart to such an obligation? If the good landlord's efforts to advance his tenants to their proper place in the march of progress are often unavailing, what can you expect of the bad landlord, even if he is put under legal pressure? You must go still further, and you must compel not only the had landlord^ hut also the had tenant, by law, to do that which the good tenant would do voluntarily and as a matter of course! And this is our "Plea for the Irish Land." Neither landlord nor tenant must be suffered to disfigure the face of the country with cabins or cottages needlessly squalid, if the law can do ought to prevent it; neither landlord nor tenant must be suffered to allow wet, and weeds, and bad cropping to curtail the generous yield which a properly cultured soil would produce, if it is possible to make an enactment which shall ensure good farming.
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