He further declared that a just and wise legislature should secure to every man, high and low, the fruits of his own labor, and he maintained that such simple, natural justice would produce confidence in Ireland, and that confidence would beget content and industry, and that a contented and industrious people would soon learn to love both king and country, and make Ireland happy and England strong. Just laws would silence the agitator and the blunderbuss, and range the people on the side of the rulers. Hugh Bronte preached his revolutionary doctrines of simple justice in the cheerless east wind, but a little seed, carried I know not how, took root in genial soil, and the revolutionary doctrine of "_Every man his own_," at which the political parsons used to cry "Anathema," and the short-sighted politicians used to shout "confiscation," has become one of the commonplaces of the modern reformation programme of fair play. The doctrine of common honesty enunciated by Hugh Bronte has lately received the approval of Liberal and Conservative governments in what is known as "Tenant-Right," or "The Ulster Custom." And here it is interesting to note that Hugh Bronte was a tenant on the estate of Sharman Crawford, a landlord who first took up the cause of Irish tenant-right, and after spending a long life in its advocacy, bequeathed its defence to his sons and daughters. Whether Hugh Bronte's doctrines on the relation of landlord and tenant ever came to the ears of the Crawford family, I know not. I think it is exceedingly probable that they heard of the remarkable man on their estate, and of his stories and theories. The Crawfords were never absentee landlords, and, as men of high Christian character, they always took a personal interest in their tenants, and would not, I believe, have failed to note any special intellectual activity among them. It is certain, however, that the Sharman Crawfords, father and son in succession, spent their lives largely in the propagation of Hugh Bronte's views, both in the House of Commons and throughout the country, and it seems to me not only probable and possible, but almost certain, that Bronte's eloquent and passionate arguments, dropped into the justice-loving minds of the Crawfords,[5] _may_ have been the primary seeds of the great agrarian harvest which, with the full sanction of the legislature, is now being reaped by the farmers in Ireland. [5] In 1833 W. Sharman Crawford published a pamphlet embodying Hugh Bronte's doctrines, and making suggestions for the good government of Ireland. The pamphlet was republished by Doctor W. H. Dodd, Q. C., in 1892. Councillor Dodd is an old pupil of the Ballynaskeagh school. He received his early education from Mr. McKee, the friend of the Brontes, and he was acquainted, as a student, with Charlotte Bronte's uncles. The following is his summary of the political portion of the pamphlet: