They bargained with Great Britain to the effect that, if they were permitted to pillage their tenantry, they would in return uphold and maintain British rule in Ireland.
It was the old picture with which M.Paul-Dubois has acquainted us, that of the "Garrison" kneeling to England on the necks of the Irish poor.

In this perversion, which under autonomy would have been impossible, we find the explanation of the extreme savagery of Union land policy in Ireland.

Its extreme, its bat-eyed obtuseness is to be explained in another way.

Souchon in his introduction to the French edition of Philippovich, the great Austrian economist, observes with great truth that England has not even yet developed any sort of _Agrarpolitik_, that is to say any systematic Economics of Agriculture.

In the early nineteenth century her own land problems were neglected, and her political leaders were increasingly dominated by an economic gospel of shopkeepers and urban manufacturers.