It is his belief that agricultural schools and model farms would do more than almost any measure that could be devised for bringing up the standard of comfort and prosperity here, and making the country quiet.
It is the opinion of this man that the people of this place have been led to regard the Papal Decree as a kind of attack on their liberties, and that they are quite as likely to resist as to obey it.

For his own part, he thinks Ireland ought to have her own parliament, and make her own laws.

He is not satisfied with the laws actually made, though he admits they are better than the older laws were.

"The tenants get their own improvements now," he said, "and in old times the more a man improved the worse it was for him, the agent all the while putting up the rents." But he does not want Irish independence.

"The people that talk that way," he said, "have never travelled.