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Forty shilling freehold movement urged in Irish reform talk
An Irish MP extols the English Forty Shilling Freehold plan, urging independent local societies to win power for the people without party bias. He urges ballot adoption, cites Ireland estate sales, and compares ballot practice in France and Spain to UK canvassing while defending rights for Irish land ownership and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosporn
James Taylor
Birmingham
Freehold Land Society
Cheers
Freehold
Mr. Rogers
House of Commons
Taylor’s Society
Ireland
England
Forsooth
America
Socrates
Plato
Cicero
Papal States
Spain
Russia
Lattimore
Harwich