of Sweden and Austria. It is a great tribute to the Trade-Mark
Association that within two years of its incorporation the Congested
Districts Board has applied for the use of the trade-mark for the
products of its lace classes and for its homespuns.

The task proposed by Henry Grattan to the Irish Parliament may well be
taken to heart by the Irish people to-day:--"In the arts that polish
life, the manufactures that adorn it, you will for many years be
inferior to some other parts of Europe, but to nurse a growing people,
to mature a struggling, though hardy, community, to mould, to multiply,
to consolidate, to inspire, and to exalt a young nation, be these your
barbarous accomplishments."




CHAPTER IV

THE LAND QUESTION

"I can imagine no fault attaching to any land system which
does not attach to the Irish system. It has all the faults of
a peasant proprietary, it has all the faults of feudal
landlordism, it has all the faults incident to a system under
which the landlords spend no money on their property, and
under which a large part of the land is managed by a Court; it
has all the faults incident to the fact that it is to the
tenant's interest to let his farm run out of cultivation as
the term for revising the judicial rent approaches."