New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-26
Refusisg 10 be Comforted.

The Wisconsin Argus, the State organ
of Hunkerism at Madison, groans doleful-
" over the prospect that Land Limita-
ton act will pass the Legislature Of that
Safe. Hearken to the voice of the SORROW
full one
Heretofore the general scope our Liquidation has been
to provde WAYS 10 swndle cTeditcrsso that ore who
could get possession Of your property Keep ~ sno
have The law his side This Is an advance step as
VIII be- an equal division of properly Some may smile at
this incredible but we tel Them plainly, lss part OF
The programme War capital has become settled pur-
pose-snd Legislature can limit the size Of mems farms
Il step beyond TO limit their accumulation OF other
properv So long the idea be msde conduciveio the
enos ofdemag that the surplus accommodations OF indus
try ought be criminal and the vicious lazy, and sness
have but 10 IT, 10 cOnhscae such earnings 70 7lr o"h
use there ia no safety for capital In the Slate Such ume
is coming and s far nesrer than is generally imagined
yery few wears more progress will bring us 10 1is end
The people wske repudsie such outsges upon
civilization, morality, and iusu,e ,,, ~,
What necessity exists for land Limitation law Mill
lions OF unoccupied spread out all arOand-The Ssle
Is capable of sustsniBg Popusnon OF $1,000 h nov
has population OF 500 900, and gracious now we are
squeezed for room In the northern part II arevee' has
fast horse he need TO be- over two or three days pc
tween houses In the oIhes parts the man, 10 nd
ing mile after mile prHres and openings untouched
by the pow would be surprised al The density 0 tne pop
uialion What Jam there 10, amer all In The interior
farms will fully average one 10 zen miles square "ua
tciA the next generation do Tor lsna =
What rcill it! Why, if you and your
set have your way, the tillers of the soil
of Wisconsin will, before 1890, pay more
every year to drones for permission to i'm
prove and cultivate the soil than would
now buy it outright. They will bitterly
rue the day in which their fathers per-
mitted you, with your th,eadbare rigma-
IL r LII. ~
light of Jefferson's Doctrines the world
is governed too much &c. to cajole them
into a false security, while the chains OF
Land Monopoly were being fastened upon
them. You talk of riding mile after
mile over prairies and openings aa-
touched BY the Plolo," as if that were
synonymous with 'unclutched by the
land spectators, but the People
know the difference. These lands have
been bought up by Counties with soldiers
warrants so as to cost but sixty or eighty
cents per acre, and when they are required
by poor men to be touched by the plow,'
they will be held up at ten, twenty, aud Of
ten fifty to hundred dollars per acre, &C
cording to their location. Those farms
lone to ten miles square will be petty
earldoms in the next generation, whereOna
hundred families will be shaving and scrimp-
ing in order to pay the rent on which the
landlord and his family are rioting in
London, Paris or Italy. NeighbOr Of The
Argus young as Wisconsin is, she has cut
her wisdom teeth, and will not naturalize
ON her soil the social institutes which have
filled the Old World with inequality, igno-
rance, depravity and misery!
C,p,r.1 PUSIsBMENT IN Iowa The an.