with his rental could have the same adjusted by paying
the sum of is. 6d. Compare our English farmers with them. How many of our English farmers are losing money, and how many can hardly make both ends meet ? If they are dissatisfied they must go, no adjustment of rent unless the landlord chooses, and yet we are continually having dinned into our ears about the poor Irish farmer." Equally striking is the testimony borne by another North of England working man, Mr. C. G. Thomson. As to Ulster bigotry and intolerance, he observes that the statements of Gladstonian papers on this head are "scattered to the winds." He finds more bigotry at home "in Gladstonian circles, where nine out of ten who are enthusiastic over Home-rule do not know the A B 0 of the Irish question," and he is indignant at the Gladstonian hypocrisy which proposes to disestablish the English Church in the interests-of denominational equality, yet "winks at the fact of polling-booths in Ireland being packed with priests."
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