New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-23
National Lnnd Reform.

. Already have several bills been submitted to enc
or the other House intended to modify or radically
change the conditions on which the PuBLlc LANDS
are now cedcd to private ownership and use. That
great change in this respect mast soon take place
is as morally certain as another sunrise The dan.
ger lies in prccptate aud unwise action by men
who do realize the nature and extent of the evil
to be redressed but have only vague idea that
the Working Glasses beginning to feel that
they have right to land 10 live on and that to re.
sist their demand will be peril to popularity So
the more politicians will rush heller SHELTER to foa,
on the rising popular tide, without a true under
standing OF its impulses or reasons. Thus bills
have been introduced TO gre TO each actual settler
or each poor settler, tract Of Land but in every
case without due provision against Monopoly OF the
aggregation of many aiictmen,s into one, as the
necessity or caprice Of eie owner, the wealth or
acquisitiVenass OF some purchaser, may dictate
This is the play Of Hamlet with the part Of Hamlet
omitted, 1t is infinitely less important that Land
shall for the present be supplied to the Lsndlcss
for nothing than is that the facility OF acquiring
home on the Soil shall be indefinitely secured bv the
establishment Of the principle Of Land Limitation,
So with regard TO the granting Of Bounty Lands
to our gallant Soldiers and Volunteers. 1t ought
20 be done must be done. but il must be So done
that ii shall benefit endurinsy their wives and
children and not merely the suffers and other vul.
lures who follow in the track Of our army Grant
ten thousand Bounty Warrants to rs many Soldiers
next month, aud Year sftcrwaTd not one thousand
OF them will belong to the original holders and not
half Of them will have done the poor Soldiers any
lasting god, Many will have been passed of for
twenty thirty dollars TO satisfy suffers accoun,
tor whisky at three to five dollars per gallon, or
been fooled away at. the gambling board, But
make the grant The Land Reform principle 10
the Soldiers condition Of actual personal settle
ment on the lands ownership OF no other and in,
alienable except by voluntary sale by both eccu.
pant snd wife to some one who owns 10 other land
and the benefits Viii be certain and enduring
Young America gives the following summary
Of the reasons for and Reform rs insrpduc:or, TO
the bill 10 ac,ualixe it in relation to the Public
Lands. We bespeak for them careful considera
ton:
Reasons To-. Ae Fssdon. OF Ike Palic Laxd<
II world INCREASE the number o. frecaolders and
decrease the antsrcpubNcan dependence OF those who
might not become reeholders exactly reversing ,ie
state of things now in progress,
. As the drain OF the population would gradually &c
TO where the land free The price Of al land held for
trehc would gradually decrease. I'LL. ultimately the land
holders would see greater advantages in isrSlisn
plsn tia, would make every freebooter than In
INC system OF landselns, aa6er which their children
might become dependent tenants.
S.Y populations would diminish gradually. til
every iaaae..en, could DC owner Of comfortable hsh
sAaon sas me seSnssy population would be
raety setted making and bridges necessary
and giving greater tac!hac. oil eaues,;on
1. There need be 40 Standing Amy s,r thor, would
be chain OF Townships along the trcpt;r, ss,IS
by independent ifeccn willing sd able 10 defend be
country,
< The Danger If acian assgessions would 10 r,,,-;
ally lessened our people only took possession 81 80
enough for their sse.
4 Tho strongest motives TO cncroscAlncn. BY Whit,
on the rights OF the Indians woud be done sway w;,hS
prohibiting sptcuicssaR in land.
The ambition, enterprise, thai wo9ld under the
present system add scre 20 acre, would be directed
more usetally 10 the improvement OF those 10 which
each mans possession limited.
g. There would be Repudission OF State Debts for
let the people settle the land eomscty and they could
and would make all desirable improvements without
going into debt.
National prosperity and the prosperity Of the masses
would DC concdcu; here ssa;n reversing the present