But the greatest step of all will be the large
extension of peasant properties, which must certainly give a great impulse both to Irish industry and to Irish emigration. So long as emigration is regarded as a remedy proposed by the land- lords, it is unpopular. But when the Irish peasantry once realise that their own interests will require the emigration of seve: al of their children to prevent the subdivision of their own property, emigration will become popular in Ireland. The true example for the statesman who governs Ireland is the success of peasant properties in France in creating a stable system and enormously increasing the industry of the people ; and the Irish Land measure, therefore, is the true and necessary supplement of that restoration of law and order in which the present Government have so notably succeeded.
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