The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-04-14
WHOLE NO. 1894.
IN. Y. TYibune.1
The Abolition of Real Property.

It is the season when the average
New-York householder, in the house
which he cannot hold much longer,
turns by no means lightly to thoughts
of moving. 1t is the season when the
owner in fee simple of the house
aforementioned ruminates upon rents
and the pleasures of raising them.
Naturally the views Of lessor and les
see are conflicting. The former wish
es to get all that he can. The latter
wishes to pay as little as possible.
Each has the other at an advantage.
The landlord knows that in most ca
ses his tenant has no stomach for
moving. The tenant knows that his
landlord may find it impossible to re-
let the premises-that for some months
at least they may remain empty.
Each party naturally looks out for his
own interest-it is with houses as
with everything else in this somewhat
selfish world. We might venture to
offer some suggestions tending to a
reconciliation Of these conflicting opin-
ions, but fortunately certain sagacious
persons have hit upon plan which is
IculdIhdUlo UOGA LUZ 1oo o1ulPllOAUy olAu
its originality. In fact, it may be
considered as triumph Of the human
intellect, while it confirms forever the
proverb that Necessity is the mother
of invention" The plan proposed is
not to pay any rent at all! 1t has
been brought forward with natural
enthusiasm at several meetings OF op-
pressed and indignant tenants in this
notably, it was discussed at a
meeting last Sunday in Williamsburg.
All the remonstrants are indignant at
an advance in the rents, and declare
that they will not pay 1.-THE Will
liamsburg lessees go a step further
and solemnly VOW that they will pay
no rent at all! All rent, it appears, is
an unjust exaction. All that the
landlord can equitably demand is the
sum which he is himself obliged to
pay for taxes, repairs and insurance.
Interest on invested capital is to be
paid no longer. Capital has been Gre
ated by labor and labor is entitled to
its enjoyment, @. e. d. No more
rent! There has been great mistake.
1t is the tenants who own the houses.
In these houses the Williamsburgers
propose, hereafter, to live rent free.
1t is beautiful idea, copied from our
Irish friends across the water, and one
charm Of it is that it is so eminently
practical
Nothing could be easier, indeed,
than the reduction of these lovely the
ories to practice. Perhaps the land
lord, after this, smitten suddenly by
new sense of meun and tuatna, will
come to the conclusion that, so far as
he is concerned, there is no longer
any such thing of n,eun,, and will not
come after his rent any more. Per-
haps he will not take out writ of
against such deeply phi
losophical tenants. Perhaps he will
not put their furniture upon the side
walk. He will only say of the house,
"'Twas mine, 'tis, his" and make no
more fuss about the matter Possibly
he may so much admire the novel wis
dom of the tenant that, in an outburst
of repentance, he will refund all rent
paid The philosopher will
calmly settle down to the enjoyment
OI HIS ueW pOSSeSSlOuS.
One precaution, however, we advise
him to take. Let him keep his doors
and perpetually bolted! Let
him do this, but some other philoso-
pher of higher views and still more
enlightened notions of property may
come in and turn him out! Posses
sion may, under the new order of
things, be ten points of the law, but
the difficulty will be to keep posses
sion; nor will there be any law worth
talking about when we have entered
upon the real estate millennium. Ev-
cry house will belong to the man
sharp enough to get it and keep it.
Moving then will not be confined to
the first of May. Everybody will be
moving every day Of the year. The
carmen will all become millionaires.
The fortunate dispossessed will be liv-
ing in tents or extemporized shanties.
And beautiful time altogether we
shall have of it, houselessness chiefly
predominating! As nobody under the
modern system will build any new
houses as the old ones gradually de-
cay, the whole community will lapse
in time into nomadic life. After
this there will be more Socialistic
meetings to concert measures for
turning out those who have comfort
able meadows, and for confscating
their cattle and carts Ultimately
there will be a general prevalence Of
hostilities; the human race will share
the fate of the Kilkenny cats; and all
because few discontented Boycotters
got together of a Sunday afternoon
in Williamsburg and talked prodig-
ious quantity of nonsense.