In the first years of the Land League, Michael Davitt was able to secure the enthusiastic support of purely Orange meetings in Armagh.

Still later, Mr T.W.
Russell, at the head of a democratic coalition, smashed the old Ascendancy on the question of compulsory purchase, and Mr Lindsay Crawford founded his Independent Order, a portent if not yet a power.

So much has been done in the country.

But it is in the cities, those workshops of the society of the future, that the change is most marked.
The new movement finds an apt epitome in the political career of Mr Joseph Devlin.

The workers of Belfast had been accustomed to see labour problems treated by the old type of Unionist member of parliament either with cowardice or with contempt.