Thus ten laborers in Ireland raised only the same quantity of produce that four laborers raised in England, and this produce was generally of an inferior quality.
Why is it that ten men in Ireland produce no more than four men produce in England?
Henry George says (_Social Problems_, p.

150): A year ago I traveled through that part of Ireland from which these government-aided emigrants come.

What surprises an American at first, even in Connaught, is the apparent sparseness of population, and he wonders if this can indeed be that over-populated Ireland of which he has heard so much.

_There is plenty of good land_, but on it are only fat beasts, and sheep so clean and white that you at first think that they must be washed and combed every morning.

Once, this soil was tilled and was populous, but now you will find only traces of ruined hamlets, and here and there the miserable hut of a herd, who lives in a way that no Terra del Fuegan could envy.