I believe the last offer has been made to Irish landlordism.

The ultimate settlement of this question must now be reserved for the Parliament of Ireland, and meantime the people must take care to protect themselves and their children.

In many parts of Ireland, I assert, rent is to-day an impossibility, and in every part of Ireland the rents demanded are exorbitant, and will not, and cannot, be paid." He was wrong.

The settlement of this vast question was to be accomplished through the Imperial Parliament, not the Irish.

Yet it was accomplished in essence by an agreement between Irishmen for which Redmond himself was largely responsible.
That settlement, however, merely ratified in 1903 the final stage in the conversion of both countries to Parnell's policy of State-aided land purchase.