English Opinion

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 14, 2 April 1903, Page 10

English Opinion

Discussing- the results of tho abolition of landlordism in Ireland tho London 'Speaker' anticipates tho principal benefits that will snrinc from the liberation of tho energies and forces of tho country to be devoted to the regeneration of tho political, commercial, and social uplifting of the nation ' The first is the arresting of that fearful tide of emigration which strands tho .shores of pvery country in the world with the exiles of Ireland, not tho 'pp r °dm't as Mr I'railsford well says, of tho exul errmt energies of the population, but tho victims of an overpowering want Tho second in the destruction of another, and tho principal obstacle to the supremacy of the National spirit in Ireland Tho Tri.sh landlords will no longer ho the earrison of a foreign occupation, and the Trish tenants will no longer bo guerilla foices struggling to recover their rights in the soil