Why wouldn't I ?" Had I shipped him to Peru she would have been quite satisfied.

Why wouldn't she?
[6] Yet another view which seems to uproot most agrarian ideas in Ireland has been put forward by Dr.O'Gara in _The Green Republic_ (Fisher Unwin, 1902).

His main conclusion is that the present disastrous state of our rural economy is due to our treating land as an object of property and not of industry.

He advocates the cultivation of the land by syndicates holding farms of 20,000 acres and tilling them by the lavish application of modern machinery as the only way to meet American competition.

His book is able and suggestive, but it is perhaps, a work of supererogation to discuss a theory the whole moral of which is the expediency of absolutely divorcing the functions of the proprietor and the manager of land at a time when the consensus of opinion in Ireland is in favour of uniting them, and in view of the fact that under the new Land Act the future of the country seems inevitably to lie for a long time in the hands of a peasant proprietary.
[7] The reader may wonder why I touch so lightly upon a fact of such profound significance as the Irishman's acceptance of self-help as a condition precedent of State aid in the development of agriculture and industry.