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The Growth Of Landlordism

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
October
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tiam tl Bouslon (Texas) Kcho. Nothing traspires in Ireland bat wht can be traced to the evils that grow out of kndlordism. The everlaating rent questioo is the head and front oí alt the diseontent and suffering that poor, downtrodden pople have have to complain of. It is tbe direct caue of hr beet citizenBhip emigrating tu other countries, where the evil exista in a milder form and the poor are enabled to half-way live and not be confronted by the ghost of gtarvation. Ilundreds of ihous&uds of the unhsppy victims of the tyranny and irijustice of ibe praepine. greedy Eogligh landlords have foond homes ainong our people, and their changed oondltioM are go much improved, that in sympathy for those leit behind.tbey have orghnized them?elveB into clubs the objects of which are to devise ways and means tor driving the landlord and big mir.ioiiS trom Irish soil. Nor have the efforts been left in the hands of Irishmen alone. Liberty loving people of all classes, creeds, and conditions have taken part in the noble crusade. 80 nniversally interested have citizens 1 of the United States become in this matter that they have paid but little heed to tbe rapid growth in thia country of the very evils that they have been contending with in the Emerald I-4e. Speak to thera I of landlordism in Amerioa and they are ready to langh at you, and you are told that there is nothing to be feared on thst I ftcore in Ibis land ot freedom. However free the peopïe may leel Irotn this 8'. arce of danger, it is not probable that figures and faoU will lie - and waht are the faets? Two English syndicates bold, in Texas alone, an aggregate ot 7 500 000 acre! A third syndicale owns 1,800,000 acres of American eoil ! Sir E. C. Reíd, K. C. B., owns and controls 2,000,000 acres of the finest Iand8 in Florida, while a company of shrewd Scotchtnen possess the title deeds of 500,000 acres more in the same state. It is said Phillips, Marshall & Co., of London, England, together witb. another Ix)Ddon firra, owns a total average of ble land within the conbnes ol toe unuea States of 3,050,000 acres. Still another ooncern owos 1,750,000 acres. A Germán bonse controls a tract Jf the fiaest farmine land in the State of Mississippi, whioh oomprises 1,100,000 acres. Two English companies own an aggregate of 1,450,000 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana. i We have only enumerated such as are koown who are holdiDg their millions ot acres. There are thousands who are owning from 200,000 down to 50,000 and still lees acres of American soiL These holáI mag we known to be for speculative poses. Vast amounU are invested in real state m our large cities, and it 8 further known that foreign capitalista are ever present, through their agente, in every hew railroad town growing up on the extending Unes of our railroad system Anuther and most threatening evil tbat in every State in the Union, but more especially in the new States and Territorios of the West, it will be found that money tenders and usurera are taking possession, by means of mortgafie forecloiure?, of farm after farm, and men who ten yeara ago did not own a foot of soil now have thousands of acres of improved and proved fanning lands, the best of the 1 cenotry. The American people must wake up, and that soon, to pat a stop to thia chief of evils, or we will before another decade hate the ecenes of Ireland ed in onr own country. The evil must be confronted, and why not uow, while the people are awake to the pernicious system of class legislation ? Down with forpign ownérship of lands or the nation 8 I doomed and damned.

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