Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-13
Riches in Europe.

The rich own all the land. which is held il
large estates often by hereditary noble tennres
and cultivated by tenants, or more frequently
lot out III small sections to petty reuters There
are no larms III the American sense, The peo-
plo moi farmers, but peasants" They live not
III Isolated farm houses on their respective tracts
oil land but i'll villages, from which they 90 out
each TO cultivate his little patch This Is espe-
cally the case in Germany. In one of these
villages they are huddled up together in about
nifty hOases or huts, resembling the qllrters OF
the negroes in the South. The whole with the
Sheds aud other out-buildiDgs, does not take up
more space than the out-bulldings OF an ordlnq-
ny tarm in Penns Jlvania. In these villages theY
GENERALLY have a church, a windmill, and a beer
saloon, as the only public buildings. II the pro
pfietor has any residence on his tract OF iah'i II
Is not on the village, but is in palace or castle
with park. But more commonly ha lives IA the
largest of the neighbOTing towns. or else at the
capital or royal residence
Ihe landed estates being thus large, and their
limits liked from time immemoral 1t will readily
be seen that the working classes can not own
land. Furthermore, the land generally dascends
~ direct line III the family of the proprietor,
Hhe the aristocratc titles. Ii Is the same IN re-
gard to the dwellings,. The houses are all large
There being, presume, not one in Berlin or
Pafis costing less than $40 900, no that the lower
classics can not be prOperty-ownersin in any sense,
Dut depend on the rich for their lodgings
Again, the rich carry ON all the manufactures,
oualntTce, and BUSINESS enterprises, W lcu ale
there ON large scale. and owned by long-stand'
ing houses or extensive corporations lhe high
cost OF the raw materials, and the great quantity
OF machinery, will not allow those with little cap
ltal to enter into them II the poor enter they
are crushed out by the competition OF the grea
nrms, which can accordingly master the trade
and keep the monopoly. These great firms have
always large profits, and are, indeed the onll
class which have such, because labor Is cheap
and the people can not afford to work on thel
own account, as il no capital were required
The rich in Europe livs we'll, having their pal
aces, liveries, twenty cours aud rich wines
their tables, spending the summer at the water
lng-places or in Switzerland, and all this VIII
little expense to themselves since their grea
trains ot servants cost almost nothing, owing Z
he eheapness of labor.
Thus, there is an immense difference betwee
ne poor and rich in Europe, owing partly to tn
original establishment. in feudal times, OF ie'
princes or knights over whole nations or depart
nehts' When these were afterward united VIII
the French kingdom or the Gsrman empire, tn
proprletors gave up their independence, but NO
their land. 1t is owing partly, too, to privilege
granted from time to time by kings and prince
IN the shape OF rent-charges, exemption frol
taxation, NC and partly to the start gotten .
long g-continued acquisition. From = SoctdHS'
u Europe" IN Old and Net0 for October.