The electorate in the counties consisted of the landholders with a few large farmers, while in the towns it comprised the great middle class.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
With the Winnowoc Valley people the rich landholders had no social traffic.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter
Then, again, the question of the free navigation of the great stream that serves as her southern boundary is at present occupying the serious consideration of many leading European statesmen, and the solution of the Danubian difficulty will materially affect our trade with the whole of Eastern Europe; whilst the peaceable creation of a peasant proprietary in Roumania about sixteen years since, and the advantages which have accrued to her from this social and political reform, present features of peculiar interest for those who favour the establishment of a similar class of landholders in Ireland.
"Roumania Past and Present"
James Samuelson