The Latin writer. Pliny. says that the large estates wvere the ruin of Italy and of her Provinces. Let us look a moment at England. A few years ago the average duke owned 142.264 acres. the average marquis owned 47.500 acres. the average earl owned 30.217 acres. and the average baron 14.152 acres. Absentee landlordism was responsible for the emigration which drained Ireland of onehalf of her population. England has seen the error of landlordism. The process of eradicating laudlordism in Ireland comnmenced in 1903. and now a commission is at work preparing plans for doing the same in England and Scotland.
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