New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-27

bon.s. of uubecoming resort end In this manner
an alarming moralinjury is inflicted upon toe youth
In our country. Land Monopoly Is the root OF the
vss, tree of .el6shuess and antsgonism in society,
rrodncino the varied branches, flowers and fruits
n ;ck edne,s and discard, and individual domestic
.rd national wars and calamties, which dafken
The world and shed poisonous mlasm over the
minds and the hearts OF men neither is there any
eecfus remedy for these Ills OF society, short OF
,be extirpation Of their great rost and cause.
That a land Limitation law Is necessary for pre-
venting land monopoly is ap cot from the history
OF the progress of land monopoly In Europe and the
United States.
Mr. Macaulay, in bis recent history Of England
stateI that, il we may trust the best statistical
writer's of the age Of Charles H. not less than
160 300 proprietors who, with their families ct the
average number of persons in family, must have
made M more than one seventh OF the whole popu-
Iation of England at that date, derived their sub
sistarce from little freehold estates yielding year
ly income Of rom ECO TO go. II we include all
the landed proprietors, the large and the middle
clssses as well as the small, the total number at
.hat period must have been very large compared
with the entire population. In other accounts, we
see il stated that the total number OF land pr0pFe
tors in England in 1875, was 100000. But in 1880.
the total number Of land propretOrs in England il
only 10000; and the total number IN the entlre Is
land Of Great Britain is only 10000, being one
fourth of the number Of the petty propFietOrs in
the increasing misery Of the working classes un-
der system Of hand monopoly which diniaishes
the right Of sefemplOyment, enhances the value oil
rents and reduces the comparative rate OF wages
In the United States the same principle oil acca-
muating landed estates in few hands is IN opera
ton. In New England, small landed Proprie'ors
are selling their farms, that they may emigraie
westward with their families, because their small
farms in the East will not answer the purpose OF
establishing in business ell their children. The
same necessity which compels small proprletors to
sell their farms, prevents proprletors with small
capital from being the purchasers The conse-
ouence is that many small farms are being accu.
ulated in the hands of large capitalists, and pau
persm would have already alsrmngly increased in
New. England, if that section of country were, as
old England deprived of an easy access 70 unoccu-
pied lands in the West
We might present many historical examples but
we will cite only two the one TO show the nfla-
ence Of land monopoly in the downfall Of a nation
ard the other to show the influence of more equal
distribution Of land among the people, IN promoting
rational prosperity.
From the non observance and the final repeal Of
the sgrarisn laws ancient Rome, the lands pass
ed generally into the hands of the patrlcians, the
spirit of liberty among the people became extinct,
and the republic became the empire OF the Caesars.
From the still greater increase Of land monopoly,
and the accumulation Of the estates OF the patriot
ans in the hands of few owners, the empire fell
under the dominion Of the Cloths, and the Western
Roman empire ceased to exist Many causes we're
in action to produce the fall Of Rome, but land mo.
nopoly was among the principal and most infuen-
tial.
In France from May, 1890 until the end Of 1900,
national domains, TO the amount OF two thousand
six hundred and nine millions of francs were sold,
and towards the end Of 1900 there were national
domains of the value of seven hundred millions
still remaining unsoldF This mass of property be-
fore the revolution, had been locked up In the
hands chiefly Of large PROJECTORS the royal IA
mily the nobility, the clergy and the religious DO
dies So mach land being suddenly brought into
the market and the insecurity which attended
revolutionary title from government, very greatly
reduced the valuation. By the division OF this
mass of property among a great number Of small
and larger proprietors and by the adjustment OF
the feuda system, was created class OF free pro
pretoTs of the soil necessary for the safety and
liberty Of the state at that trying crisis. This d.
vision of the soil into small properties, which Is
naturally connected with more careful cultivation,
must be considered the chief cause of the
rapid increase of the population OF France" Not.
wihstanding the French wars and executions aud
massacrep, the population OF France, which was
in 1859 only twenty millions, was IN 1921 thirty
millions Of people-But unhappiy in France,
there was 10 law for Land Limitations therefore,
at present land monopoly again prevails to great
extent in that nation, and the estates OF the small
proprietors, by subdivisions among their children,
are becoming insufficient for their support Hence
France presents threeiold lesson: First, the ill.,
iurious consequences Of Land Monopoly; Tor II de-
graded and brutaized the people, and Produced the
decspta alton Of the Monarch and the reign OF ter.
ror: SecOndiv the regenerating influence OF more
equal distribution OF lands for 1t sustained France
ia prosperity az home, and in victories over CON
b'ned Europe: 1hirdiy, the indispensable necss-
sitv of Land Limitation for without nat, French
Republicans are now degraded and starving upon
their own soil. Many causes unquestlonabiy con
trbutod to the success of the French arms but the
more equal division Of landed estates was a chief
and principal one
From these facts and considerations, it must be
evident to every rejecting mind that land mits
ton not only affords sure basis for all genuine
FORM but is Itself the only eilectual remedy for the
poverty, degradation, ignorance, vice and crime
which abound are constantly increasing in the pres
emit organization Of human society that funiamea-
tai 10 human progress as are al the measures OF
Land Reflrm, land limitation is the great measure
Of this movement which underes al the others,
and like the back bone in the human body, gives
strength consistency and uprightness to the whole
system; that it is the universal safeguard 10 the
perpetuity and perfection OF our free Institutions,
and that its prompt adoption is demanded alike by
the safety and welfare Of the PEOPLE.
Eucyelopedia Americana. Vol p. s5L Article France
WING ALMANAC ABROAD We fad the follow
ing notice of this publication in the HoH0laln
Friend of the lst Of April;
THE WING ALMANAC AND U. s. REGISTER YoR
1850; published at Tribune Office N. TO the
Postmaster a. san Francisco we tender our CRATE
ful acknowleo gements for late papers, aud copy
of The Wing Almanac. Now, if all good Wings
throughout the United States should have their
heads full ffacts statistics and literary Informs
tion as this Almanac then surely they would prove
a match for an equal If not greater number Of good
Democrats The articles upon various leading
topics are excellent, viz: Postal Reform, Floy
cling in the Navy Public Lands Finances &c.
This is Just the book that should be read by every
American citizen abroad II figures speak tbs
truth, one would suppose that Yankees might be
content with the present Of the country, when
there remains unsold 245,9l334i acres Of public
lands, ON the lat OF January, ls49.