Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-02-07
LAND EEIgEEATEAN.


LAND LIMITATION.
VIM. K WILSON, of Milwaukee, who has Tor
years beer an active Land Reformer has intro
duced into the Assembly (of which be is a mem
bor) land Limitation bill. This bill, if we un-
derstand' seeks not to disturb existing relations
and conditions, but provides against further mo
nopoy and accumulation Of land in the hands of
individuals or companies. OF course this novel
proposition in Legislation excites considerable re-
mark among the press-and we do not perceive
the democratic papers of the state come up to It's
advocacy and defence as we supposed they
would in virtue Of the public resolves of that
party, in favor Of the measure. On the other
hand the Milwaukee Sentinel, the leader Of old
Whiggery and narrow views, il the state, attacks
and condemns il with bitterness.
This is new measure in legislation, and we
are not prepared to say, nor is any one, that the
details of Mr.. Wilson's bill are correct in eve
~ particular. That is a matter which nothing
short OF experience can fully regulate and de-
termino. But VIC do know that the principle in
believe that the Limitation 1920 acres) is liberal
for all possible wants-and so knowing and bf =
Iicving, we would be willing, and all land re-
formers ought to be, TO take the bill as il is if
S details cannot now be altered to advantage.
and leave it to time and experience 10 perfect
those details.
We say there is no principle more palpably
and positively correct, than the one involved in
this bill. The land is the common heritage Of
the racc-it is necessary for the sustenance Of
the raco. hold precisely the same relation to
it that ny brother does, and it is preposterous TO
say that because he has been born Il generation
earlier than M, he has Alright to all the land over
which he may spread his gaze, and make me.
through my wants, his slave for life. If title
10 land be correct and good title, it can be so
only from the eternal fitness and nature of things
1t is not SO because William the conqueror, or
any other robber, has parcaled it out among men
but it is SO because Of the relation man holds
to the soil Is it not plain then, that as we are all
creatures Of the same principle, all holding pre-
csoly the same relation to the soil-that tile
which does recognise the right Of the whole race
to the soil is no title at ALL end is not worth really,
one copper. Abstractly it would be right for
our Legislature, to-day, to destroy all monopoly
of soil within our borders. both present md pro-
spcctive But this bill proposes only to prevent
future Accommodations, and we say it is reason
able, Just and proper bill, and should be enact
ed lit Be- ,rrong to moaopolize the soil, is it
wrong to make an enactment that the soil shall
not te monogozcd? and fiji be best for all con-
cerned that the land be not monopolized, shall we
neglect or refuse to pass snch law !? Who is
TO be wrongad b. it? Il is certainly, not wrong
to prohibit me from committing wrong !; aud
my grumbing and growing about being depri-
we'd of my natural right to stretch barren sheep
skin over all the land can accumulate. don't
really give me a right TO doit. Let all who sin
cerely believe that land monopoly is wrong and
works injury, assist this bill in its passage, and
we can perfect the details of it, as time points
out exactly what is necessary to be done.
VERY Observation-Disclosures of being de-
lighted by the christian generosity of the Nv
York Union Committee in paying $500 towards
the expense Of capturing and returning Long,
the fugitive slave to bondage. the south takes
reIy desPonding view Of the matter Thus, say
they, if il costs $500 to get a man back on the
road to bondage, and there is no Union Commit
tee on hand to pay expenses, what are we to do
The game under such circumstances is hardly
worth the candle. Very true, it has rather a
desponding look