Page:Irish Emigration and The Tenure of Land in Ireland.djvu/248

Rh scheme to be put in operation, it would be perfectly justifiable for the state, while in promoting these purchases with public money, to impose stringent conditions against subletting; but such precautions would be found practically inoperative; or only to be enforced by a code of primogeniture, entail, and limited ownership, such as would keenly shock the advocates of the change. Supposing, however, the