IRISH LAND QUESTION.
WHOLESALE PURCHASE ASKED FOR. [iTKITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (P.Y KLPCTUIC TKLKOKAPU. COPYRIGHT) London. February 24. In the House of Commons Mr J. E. Redmond moved an amendment to the Address-in-Reply asking for Imperial credit for the compulsory wholesale purchase of land in Ireland. Mr T. W. Russell, in a violent speech, seconded the motion, urging that timely concessions should be made lest bloodshed should ensue. The landowners, he said, were mere rent chargers. Mr Balfour said compulsion would be wild and ruinous. It would ruin the labourers. The Irish Land Purchase Acts had successfully created GO.OOO peasant proprietors. Mr Wvndhain said it was impossible to risk £120,000,000 and plunge Ireland into litigation. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman supported the amendment, which was rejected bv 235 to 140. The Irish Nationalists' press remind the electors that their claims were only granted in response to turbulent violence and refusal to pay rent.
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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 889, 26 February 1901, Page 2
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150IRISH LAND QUESTION. Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 889, 26 February 1901, Page 2
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