TEETOTALLER ON IRELAND.
Mr Hoyle, the eminent temperance statistician, shows another phase of the land question. Listen to the Land League orators, and you are told how after paying exorbitant rents the people have not sufficient means left to obtain the merest necessaries. The squalor, the hunger, the crime, the misery, are all due to landlord extortion. Mr Hoyle says :—“ Ireland, which is almost entirely agricultural, and where there is so much deplorable destitution, the rental of the lands amounts to £1,518,392 ; but during the ten years ended 1879 the people of Ireland spent on an average £3,824,602 each year in intoxicating liquors, or £2,302,210 more than the entire rental of the country.”
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Patea Mail, 21 February 1882, Page 3
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113TEETOTALLER ON IRELAND. Patea Mail, 21 February 1882, Page 3
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