You must look at their rents as accommodation rents.

Suppose they earn the rent in Scotland, or England, or Tyrone, or wherever you like, the question is, What do they get for it from Captain Hill?
They get a holding with land enough to grow potatoes on, and with as much free fuel as ever they like, and with free pasture for their beasts, and all this they get on the average, mind you, for no more than ten shillings a year! Why, there was a time, I can assure you, when the women here earned the value of all the Hill rents by knitting stockings and making woollen stuffs.

You see the stuffs lying here in this window that they make even now, and good stuffs too.

But before the League boycotted the agency here, the agency ten years ago used to pay out L900 in a year, where it pays less than L100 to the women for their work." "Why did the League do this ?" "Why?
Why, because it wanted to control the work itself, and to know just what it brings into the place.

You must remember Father M'Fadden is the President of the League, and the people will do anything for him.