But the report itself was, like the Railway Report, too sane and too Irish to stand a chance.

There was sent over from England a Mr Nicholls, who, after a six weeks flutter through the country, devised the Poor Law System under which we still labour.

Mr Nicholls afterwards became Sir George, and when he died it is probable that a statue was erected to him.

If that is so the inscription must always remain inadequate until this is added: "Having understood all about Ireland in six weeks he gave her, as the one thing needful to redeem her, the workhouse." But, of course, the capital exploit of the Economics of Unionism was its dealing with the problem of land tenure.

I shrink from inviting the reader into the desert of selfishness and stupidity which constitutes English policy, in this regard, from the Union to the triumph of the Land League.