New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-01

average price paid by settlers thus iores'aiiea o'
the lands they improve il certainly not less 'nan
three times the Government price ana "n"o ~
speoulator holds back for this advance ocno''s
Roads Churches. &c. are prevented or 'e'"'
The Ns,;on obtain, not more but less than IL ~ouo
,.o.;vs u No man were allowed to appropriate an
aero Of Public Land except 70 nIni'so CAUGHT 'O'
hi. own use and improvement
Rat the Commercial objects TO Land Limita
ton a.
Observation-Disclosures man gets bis $40 scres and
rear. family ofsix children all dsughter' h dies
uh.t sre those daughters TO do They cannot NJ tne
LAM they csnnst sell II becsuse ell the men VIZ 20
provided with their farms Of $40 acres and no man Gan
hold Or suppose the original holder dies Iesrns
one child son who has decided vosston for sehoisI
ship. or the sea or the ministry or art Inas son esI
not tl the $40 himself without Wasting ~na' neJ
perhaps be eminent talent for some DINER 'oeeuou
be cannot sell because all who might De opposed 70 Pu
chsse are provided with their farms snd escn can ooo
only one he csnno, mortgage II TO some rich esptssI
because the mortgage would be In effect sae ana sn
evasion OF the law"
Our neigbbor here assumes as a matter oil course
that ifna man were permitted TO acquire more tnan
ae0 acres Of land, everybody would hare tha'
amount, and no person be in need OF any mere IL
another grievous flaw in bis understanding "e
do indeed hope and believe that with such lin /
tstion. modicun OF land wopld be somewhat
mora easily obtained by the needy than 1t now u.s.
But the supposition that, good improved iAnd
would be no longer In demand or possess any Pc
cuniary value betrays a most melancholy want Of
reflection on the subject. Had Nsboths vineya ard
m whine in Palestine under the rigorous Agrarlan-
ism of Mosesl
With regard to the policy Of allowing an alleg'
ed tenant TO dispute the assumed title OF bis land
lord the Commercial says;
TO answer the first branch Of this question fully and
show why certsin mode Of doing thing has been re-
sorted To- rather than another mode, would occupy
room thsn we can spare Nor 10 II necessary We
afford 10 admit that the tenant might drecuy hho
without resortng 10 snv legal fiction bring 10 issue and
overthrow his landlords title" even In an acton ior
rent brought by the landlord without in the least inur
Ing Our side But the second bhnch
involves piece Of simplicity manifest that we can
hardly avoid suspecting some Typographical error Inc
mere belief Of the tenant that the landlord mas no 'so
titlei Does The Tribune seriously mean 10 say ,nst
courts of law are 10 receive defsDdsnts naked bti'g
without shadow Of evidence TO support H. az prtH0 taee
proof that the lease Is fraudulent the admitted te COCO
for nohing1 fthss the meaning then we can only smile
at the papabs absurdity To such question no serious
answer can be expected might sd init that It would
be we'll 10 allow the tenant TO dispute and dsprove DIS
landlords title but To put the landlord whose tte mas
been recognized for twenty nifty or hunoren years 70
the DELAY and expense and trouble Of proving his ute
every time his tenant thinks proper 10 cay don De-
Hvs your title IL good would be arrangement alto
gether beyond conceptions Of stability and propney
and Justice in conducting the affairs Of society
OF whatever of argument or force may bs found
IN the above ourreaders have the benefit its cour
tesy 10 all the Commercials. His evidently reiuo-
tant concession that he can adduce no good reason
for compelling tenant TO wander through critical
labyrinth Of legal fasehoods in order to bring his
assumed landlord title into Court will be noted by
discerning readers. And, as to our simplicity
and his smile, these are but figures Of speech TO
which our friend is addicted-they mean nothing
offensive. The every time landlord would be
required to prove his title would be just once the
record of that proof would answer for the next half
century at least. As TO the expense we had
supposed in our extreme simplicity that he who
should set up an unfounded denial of title in his
vertable landlord, and get beaten on 1t, would
have 10 shoulder the expense and that 1t
would probably be enough to cure him OF setting
no such deiences for one while. But if the winner
of lawsuit pays the expense, there Is sure to
DO litig alton enough. fix the laws as we may.