CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
As the hour approaches when the legislature must deal with the Irish Land question, and settle it, like the Irish Church question, once for all, attempts are redoubled to frighten the public with the difficulties of the task.

The alarmists conjure up gigantic apparitions more formidable than those which encountered Bunyan's Pilgrim.

Monstrous figures frown along the gloomy avenue that, leads up to the Egyptian temple in which the divinity, PROPERTY, dwells in mysterious darkness.

To enter the sanctuary, we are solemnly assured, requires all the cardinal virtues in their highest state of development--the firmest faith, the most vivid hope, and the charity that never faileth.

But this is not the only country that has had a land question to settle.