Mr. Dillon then proceeded to make a violent attack on
the existing inspectors as belonging to a gang whose solo object was to destroy the efficacy of the land laws. "The people could not place any confidence in the majority of the inspectors. He had been told that there were inspectors who actually discriminated against individual farmers who had been active in the land agitation, and all he could say was that if he got. information about any such inspector, his term of office would be short." Mr. Dillon concluded in his most bellicose vein by appealing to the people of Tipperary to "dress their ranks and rally for the final charge." If the House of Lords threw out the Land Bill, the Irish people would "cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war." We have already noted Mr. Dillon's astonishing assumption that landlords and agents are still masters of the situation, and his absolute disregard of judicial reductions, and the still further reduction in the arnmity paid by pur- chasing tenants. Even more significant is his attack on the inspectors, men who hold their offices at the pleasure of the Executive, and have the best reason in the world for not favouring the landlords in their valuations.
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