Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-06-02
THE ARGUS AND LAND MONOPOLY.

/ Our TREND a. Madison attempts TO be severe upon
the doctrines and doIngs of the national relormers
In a late leading editorial, he says:
4" IS man rcor? :, is land monopoly that has
made him Is man Thief gambler or d muir
derer? It's land monopoly which has made him
so. Land monopoly is appealed 10 by a certain set
OF men, as the prolific source Of all evil social, po-
liucai and moral; or rather we should say the two
first of these; for many Of them DO not believe in
the existence Of moral evil at all But land mono
poly Is the great procuring of all the evi there
Is more or less and the cry Is echoed from Maine
to Georgia from the stump and the press, down with
the land monopoly! Lecturers are employed, as
sociatioas are formed, and party organized ard
drilled, with the single object OF putting down this
runous land monopoly
d" Now, suppu,c woudrous wise man should
start up in Madison. or in any other village in the
land and tell the people that because they have
been afflicted with few of bilious IL, er there
must be a Bengal tiger somewhere in the neighbour
hood. and that he is the real cause of the maladv,
Is it likely that the whole neighborhood would raj
| ~ and put thenlsel ives under and leaders to
hunt the tiger, without plusing inquire whether
such an animal had ever been within FIVE thou
eaIt miles OF them and if so. whether his presence
would produce a bilious e, er, and whether killing
the Tiger would be an adequate remedy for The dis
ease, SC, sc.
/ Now, Mr.. Argus, it would not harm you TO hold
up, and take a candid view Of the subject Justtry,
/ for five minutes to be candid. and see how it will
seem. Land reform is not proposed as a cure for
ali evil For example, re have no idea that it would
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