New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-21

lOus cties, 80 raisersby cultivated tnae tney grow
poorer from year TO year, and. from having been
most productive Of Wheat, have run gradually dosn
until they produce barely Rye and Corn enough 10
keep their shiftless cutvstors from the Poor-house
Other influences may have aided, but the primary
and essential cause Of this desoston this decadence,
i. Lasp MoSoPoLr-;be granting OF sale az a nominal
prce of wild lands 70 feE favortes Of the ruling poser
doonpa the great msss 70 clear and cultivate these
lands Is eTernOre 70 pay e1orbitant sd Ds
for their redemption from feuda ownership. Had the
soil az this ate been granted none bu actual SCI
tiers On each lot Of fifty to hundred acres. there
would by this time have been hardly an unoceuPiel
contradiction within the States limits and not merely
her Population and Wealth bat her Education, Arts
General Intelligence and Virtue would have been Tar IN
advance Of Ehat the now are
SO with the Free West. Go where you may between
N,qsrs and the Missouri, you VIII fad thriving VII
lsges belted around BY Tscsnt lands bought up OF
speculation often by nonresdenrs and waiting Tor the
ten shnss per acre they originally cost and the ten
dollars per acre the present owner may have pad Tor
them to be- Transmitted TO thousand dollars per lot By
the sorcery Of speculation VIVA; mas the Spectator
done 70 entitle bin 10 this exOrbtaRt proht' WAT
has tie village done that ire growth should thus be OBJ
structedl How has the surrounding country sinned
that it's industry should thus be taxed What is 70
compensate the districts which see the Population and
Lrbor they so pressDgy need driven b. them and scat
tered from the Colorado and GA to NoOtks Sound oy
the exorbiant prices affixed BY spectators to their
unoccupied lands ,
Monarchy is going ahead of this Republic in it, acton
on the Land Question. Though most Of the eligible
soi Of the Canadas long since grasped by seis
neurs and spectators yet the Crown has good lands
left which the vigorous construction OF Railroads IS
rapidly increasing. Portions Of these lands have Tor
some years been open to settlement on these c0nd,ns
l. Fifty acres 10 be given to each bona fds settler on
condition Of residence and improvement 2 Fifty more
Wing next the former % be reserved fer purchase By
the settler in case be shall apply aud pay for il within
specified time This plan, while it PrOfers to every
one Free Home in fee simple, and nsures the compact
settlement of the district doubtless yields more income
to the Government than the old monopoly system We
are informed by an intelligent Canadian that the poor
settlers who lad fifty acres allotted them few years
ago are beginning to pay for the additional nifty acres
reserved for them Where they neglect to do this be-
yond the specified time iii presumed that the hrst ie
is all the settler needs viii improve. aud the second
is open to a new settler
With our State and the West settled on the Free
Land principle this city weud naturally have had tFce
the Trade and Population she now has Every section
held up By speculation for exorbitsn price abstracts
something from the aggregate of her Business Every
dollar screwed by speculation out Of Labor In the price
ultimately paid by the settler detract' from bis ability
to improve to cultivate, and to live in comfort-al Of
them contributing directly to the prosperity OF our CITY
If the Merchants and Manufacturers of NegYork we're
10 nav the Government outright an annual SUN equal
to its average net receipts from Public Lands, on con-
diton that those Lends shOud henceiOrth be Free III
limited alotments to Actual Settlers and should be
granted TO none Others sure the payers would
make money by the arrangement, while contributing
immensely to the Countrys progress and solid pros
perity.