Ireland, As I Saw It: the Character, Condition, And Prospects of the People
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100. AGENTS AND MIDDLE-MEN. 229 for him, which is, perhaps, the least objectionable method, taken as a whole, by the absentee proprietor. But cases are not wanting of their faithlessness, both to their em- ployers and the tenants. I have had the most undoubted proofs of the most wicked and inhuman treatment of these task-masters, in numberless instances ; and there are not wanting evidences of their treachery and dishonesty to the landlords themselves. On large estates, numerous sub- agents are... employed, who increase the miseries, and feel less compunction, inasmuch as they feel less responsibility.* The dishonesty and knavery of the agents are bad enough, heaven knows ; but it is not half equal to the oppressions of the " middle-men," as they are called. This is a class of petty landlords, a kind of stock-jobbers, who hire large tracts of land at cheap rents, and then underlet them in small portions, at enormous prices. f This is done in vari- * " The landlord and agent are both absentees, and it is a great loss to the tenantry upon a large estate, when it happens so.
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