Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-09-25
The Land War in ENGLAND
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very center Revolution or reform
are the two alternatives that the
Irish Government will have tn
choose between in the near future.
The villianous laud laws, which
Bright recently denounced as
"ancient, and stupid, and mis-
cbevous Iegislation,n are bearing
their Legitimate fruits in the dis
tress aud suffering that now pre-
vail among the agricultural classes.
The yield OF grain tins year is ex-
pected to be One-third less than the
average: u falling off that all re-
present as II loss to the Euglish
farmers of E25,0OO,O0O.
The English farmer, who, on &C.
count of the present failure of the
crops, falls behind in his rent, in
looking forward to the fu ure sees
his labor in the coming years NOR
tagged To man whom he actually
pays for the privilege of cultivat-
ing land that belongs to himself 10y
the second highest claim, that of
cultivation, the highest being crea
ti"n; for, AS Carlyle has very truly
sad, "fi,e land belongs to these
two, to the Almighty God and TO
all His children of men hat have
ever worked well GA it., o. that
shall ever work well on II -
The law making aristucrary of
England do rot, hnwee r., AXE
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Fh-y he,ieve TIA, tu, ansu.alug
afiet0rIacS have The ir4t Rpd pufY
claim TO the tand, hnu this b-u.f
they have embndted in the law-
thai Il few huudred Of them have
made for twenty millions Of
Eng iisruen.
Tie main object is TO Keep the
land o. England in the hand Of The
few hundred that now monop0Ilze
it. This Is effected 10y the laws of
prim0genlture and entail The
English land thievers cannot part
with what they have stolen, even
If they wished TO do so. The law
will not u low them to relax their
grasp on the stolen Inheritance of
the English people.
But this is not all. The tenant
of one of these land-grabbers has
scarcely any right as against the
man who permits him to use what
God intended should be his own.
II his tenant spends money on i'm
provements, they belong, not to
him, but to the landlord. and they
can be taken even from his use
without recOmpeuse.
The law of distraint gives the
landlord pref, reuce as creditor
over all Others, aud the power to sat
isfy his aims out of Ii proceeds of
farm labor before they can be APP
piled To any her purpose.
The farmer and his family may
he dying of hunger. No matter. The
landlords claim must be first sat
i-fied III. fore the tenant Can apply
even the smallest part of the pro-
duct of his labor to his own or to
his family's use.
The game laws prevent the En-
glish farmers from protecting their
crops agaius any beast or fou that
the landlord may keep for his
amusement.
Englishmen, generation after
generation, have. patiently sub.
mitted to these wrongs. Their
public teachers and political lead
ers were continually DINING into
their ears that they were living in
the hest-governed LAM in the
world.
They are, however, beginning to
awaken to a real iZation of the
wrongs that have been perpetrated
on them for so many centuries. The
National Reform Union, lately
formed, with headquartersat Man
chester, is the the first evidence we
have of this awakening.
The Union has recently issued an
address to the country, in which
are embodied the following de-
mands: BOLTON of the laws of
entail aud primogeniture, and
Limitation to the power to tie up
land by settlement, so that some
living person shall have absolute
power to sell; taking away OF the
power of landlords TO appropriate
the results oil his tenants outlay
aud labor without paying for them;
abolition of distress aud hypothec;
reform of the game laws. so that
the farmer may protect his crops;
and getting rid of the uncertainty,
delay, aud eXprnse attached to the
buying and selling of land, max
ing the transfer of this kind of pro-
perty "as simple as the sale of
shares, ships or cotton"
These demands, moderate as they
are, have already in-plred the Eii-
glish land-thieves with dread of
what they forrshadnw. They fear
that, commencing with u demand
for II laXation Of their iniqui'ous
land-laws the English people may
end In d maui fnr tie ful; res
| t0ratiou If trr lani ~ he est 90 +
or. To whom, by rlgAt, b juu ea.
ID -raeii bimsel sGeNts the doug
er from ufsr, spi refuses % al -suivs-
agricultural dis res- with itS az
conpinying land agitation con
| tnues. The present Parliamen
expires by limitation next Spring
aud it has usually been the custom
to dissolve Parliament aud order u
general elec ion at least u year be
ore the expiration of thu term.
DsraelI'- refusal to observe this
custom shows that he fears to fac.
the storm OF indignation that the
discussion of The land laws Is call
ing forth throughout all England.