New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-27
Land and Labor.

ponder them with an eye 10 the great ptne1Pes
therein evolved, we think few would grudge the
space 20 occupied. Crowded as our columns are
with the doings Of Congress, our Legislature &c
we can only make room for two or three pithy ex'
tracts. And first from LORD JoEs RUSSELL, who
a. Premier, propoUnding 10 the House Of Commons
the measures deemed expedisnt BY the Ministry,
says
There are 10000 acres Of waste land in Ireland
We propose TO devote El 10000 70 is improvement
and propose that the land should the proprietor DC
willing part with H. be purchased but That II ne does
NOT Improve 10 by accepting loan under this measure
or out IL his resources. and i be refuses 70 SOL
there shaH BE- COMPULSORY pono IN the Conmisstones
Of Woods and For~n 70 take and 'm1vo1e rdae Iand'
which below certain ssloe
Where are the Courier & Enquirers and Elk.
presses of Great Britain We find in our English
files, not a word Of remembrance against this bold
proposition. 90 far transcending any Anti Kent
doings In our own legislature. The awful bill re-
gulating Devises and Descents, On account OF
which Col. or Gen. Webb refused 10 vote for John
Young only proposed TO transmit the fee, upon due
payment made, Of lands held on perpetual leases,
and then only at the death Of the landlord but here
is great portion Of the Soil Of Ireland TO be re
sumed at once by the Government paid for at it's
own price improved, and then sold or leased TO
coltivators in convenient farms Of rs to 50 acres
each. And this is undertaken svowedly lsee
Queens Speech TO lessen The pressure that com
psat,oa fer the occupation Of lind Which has bee"
tAe f,uttfa source of crime and misery"-in other
words, TO reduce the incomes OF landlords and i'm
prove the condition Of the tenantry. Comment is
superfuous
Now hear Mr. RoEBUcK, aleading Liberal Mem
her of the House. He says:
sir, say that 1t is the duty OF Ensand-snd "a
dress myself English Representatives. sn.a ma,
a. AND of Ireland shall maintain TIE PEOPLE o. Ireland
Uesr too. Lord GEORGE BrSTrsoK the leader
of the high Tory party in the House. He first ad
rnits that the Empire may fairly be called upon 70
do something in tbs present crisis, and proceeds
Bu, at ,he same time be clearly understood that
ve do think that for the future run ffo1W II bO'D
TO MAINTAIN the lrish Poor
Leaving these truths to make their proper
impression, we turn to the Express, which, IN an
article entitled Agrarianism no Remedy for Pow
srtv' cites some uncomprehended Statistics from
French documents, or rather from British Tory
diges, and Review of French documents which
are assumed to disprove statement that In
spite OF the Revolution aud the law oil Equai fer-
tis.on Of Estates the larger portion OF the son oil
France il still held by small minority oil It's REQ
ple, and that the great mass OF those ostentatousy
denominsted land owners are such IN name only.
The facts cited by the Express however, rightly
.nn,.hsnded. confirm our statement They show
that about half the landowners OF France hoid less
than Ave acres each. while iour.hiths possess less
Than ten acres each But on this the Express goes
on TO preach against dividing the land more ana
roore into garden-patches so that very often the
.n.a. not the plow, must be used. as If we had
W. sed or favored any such thing. Can ma
non be fed by any other than broad system Of field
Agricultural" it asks. as utterly ignorant mat we
are in favor Of much broader fields and more extern
s,ve farms than it has ever agreed TO. The waste
and wrstchedness OF petty fields with their innn-
msrable fences and other obstacles to economy
If eort. and nurseries of weeds. brers, thistles'
ho have been fully and frequently depicted In our
oelnmns. What we desire VIGOROUSLY is, not patch
cultivation, but a system under which the cuitivs'
Sor shall as nearly and as speedily as may be, be
come a proprietor also And while we oeheve
that the most expensive system OF scientiho coi'
ture and rotation is desirable and that farms should
comprise not hundreds merely but thousands oil
.oye. we still maintain that however large OF
small thew may be, the cultivators have better
chance to make a living from them II they are Mt
the same time the owners than they can have IL
they must pay rent for them. 10 not that plain
enough Why does the Express change the
rent Of Patrick Gallagher stated in our icrmer art
Gle NJ per acre TO sl-a difference Of four ffths
While we heartily agree with the Express In con.
demnine the partition of the soil into mere garden
p.s we deny that the condition Of the Lseorers of
France, and especially those who own even half
an acre each Of land, is SO hspess as that OF the
landless laborers Of Great Britain To be poor
man any where. but especially in the most civilized
portions Of Europe is hard fate but the privstions
81 the Starving Millions of Ireland have no parallel
IA any county where the Earth is not monopozed.
and the Agricultural aborers OF England, receiving
lwhen they have work an average of Oh per week
wherewith TO pay rent buy food at present prices,
eloshe and educate family. have but the Union
workhouse between them and death by famine,
whenever their labor or its reward is interrupted.
Thousands of plowmen and respers on the most
nroductive whea, land OF Europe are themselves
compelled TO subsist on coarse bread and lard, and
TO sleep in hay lofts for want of the means ct doing
better The ancestors Of these same lseorers, hve
centuries ago earned half bushel Of wheat by q
days labor and had meat of various kinds In
abundance, where the descendants, working harder.
now taste meat perhaps three times ayesr and
earn four to six quarts OF wheat day. Yet Land
continues to rise in market value, while Labor
sinks gradually lower and still lower until the gen
ersl tendency is arrested by absolute starvation.
Where is the Express remedy for this
We have never advocated any such law IS the
Express cites from the Code Napoleon. compelling
the partition OF landed property, however small
equally among the heirs OF dying owner; and yet
we must smile at the grave citation BY that paper
from Tory Review OF a French Preiects circular
informing the owners Of land in the Department Of
the Lower Alps that if their land was not worth
paving the land tax OF nineteen cents per acre up
on they might absndon i, to the Government and
be nd OF the tax. We presume the owner OF
Mont Blssc, # there be owner, would prefer to
relinqaish his property rather than pay nineteen
cssts per acre annual tax upon IT, How tina,
would tend to prove that oatvAtors cannot live up
on their own land bat mus, hire il Of and psy rent