ABSTRACT
The measure of English Nonconformist sympathy aroused was immense, as was proved by the sums collected in England for the Sustentation Fund of a Free Church having suddenly to organise on a voluntary basis and even to put up new buildings by the hundred as quickly as might be. When, however, the most important of the Irish Land Bills, that for Tenants’ Compensation, was brought to the Second Reading stage, the “Irish Brigade” found it most inadequate. The Irish elections had been fought on a full-blooded Tenant Right programme, and the Government was offering, instead, merely some cumbrous guarantees that any proper improvements affected by tenants would be compensable on their leaving a holding. Land nationalisation, whether with some compensation or without, was the ideal land solution at which they aimed and it had the added attraction of appearing to offer an infallible remedy for Unemployment.
