[Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert]@TWC D-Link bookIreland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) CHAPTER II 38/63
They take care we hear of that.
The rest disappear, and are never heard of again." "Then you do not encourage emigration ?" I, asked, "even although the people cannot earn their living from the soil ?" Father M'Fadden hesitated a moment, and then replied, "No, for things should be so arranged that they may earn their living, not out of the country, but on the soil at home.
It is to that I want to bring the condition of the district." At this point Lord Ernest Hamilton came up and knocked at the door.
He was most courteously received by Father M'Fadden.
To my query why the Courts could not intervene to save the priests from taking all this trouble on themselves between the owners and the occupiers of the land, Father M'Fadden at first replied that the Courts had no power to intervene where, as in many cases in Gweedore, the holdings are subdivided. "The Courts," he said, "may not be, and I do not think they are, all that could be desired, though they undoubtedly do supply a more or less impartial arbitrator between the landlord and the tenant.
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