The Tenant-Right Associations of Ulster are discontented with the Land
Bill. They say the alterations injure it, that they want the Ulster custom, and not the usages of each separate estate ; that the landlord retains the power of capriciously increasing rental ; that there are too many openings for legal proceedings, and that "both in and out of Parliament a combination of English, Irish, and Scotch landlords has been formed for the avowed purpose of obstructing and defeating the Government Land Bill, and every other measure of legislative justice to the tenants of Ireland. How weary Mr. Gladstone must sometimes be of that "closely watched slavery which in England is mocked with the name of power." These Ulster men, even in the altered Bill, get twice as much as anybody else, yet they will not remember that Mr. Glad- stone has to steer his course so as to secure all he can for Ireland, without provoking the very combination which they so angrily denounce. In a House of landlords he has to pass a tenants' Bill, and the tenants scream at him because he tries not to make it a violent one.
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