It is a distinct warning served upon the smallest tenants as well as upon the greatest landlords in the United Kingdom that fixity of any form of individual tenure is irreconcilable with the Agrarian agitations.
I anticipated this demonstration, but I did not anticipate that it would come so fully or so soon.
I anticipated also abundant proof from my own side of the water of the accuracy of my impressions as to the drift of the American-Irish towards Protection and Republicanism in American politics.

This, too, has come earlier and not less fully than I had expected.

Mr.Patrick Ford, the most influential leader of the American-Irish, issued early in August a statement of his views as to the impending Presidential election.

"The issue to-day," he says, "is the Tariff.

It is the American system _versus_ the British Colonial system.