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Ple who have been driven from the better lands are allowed to live upon
it--as long as they pay their rent. If it were not too pathetic, the
patches they called fields would make you laugh. Originally the surface
of the ground must have been about as susceptible of cultivation as the
surface of Broadway. But at the cost of enormous labor the small stones
have been picked off and piled up, though the great boulders remain, so
that it is impossible to use a plow; and the surface of the bog has been
cut away and manured by seaweed, brought in from the shore on the backs
of men and women, till it can be made to grow something. Sir Thomas
Brassey writes from a capitalist's standpoint, while Mr. George writes
from the standpoint of a philosopher who not only sees gross social
wrongs but boldly applies the remedy. But let us see if the same fester
which irritates the body of Irish society has not also a parasitical
existence in our own land, where society is yet in its infancy, where
the people are supposed to enjoy all the advantages of the competitive
system, and where all are, measurably, free to take and to use the
opportunities offered the pioneers, or him who gets first his grip upon
the three natural elements absolutely essential to man's exis