Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-03-03
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till the population of this country
doubles, and see if one man will be
permitted to hold all he claims, and
see if one man can, as in California,
appropriate the water supply Of
thousands The earth is good
deal like a street car. People are
waiting to get on board, and the
great lout who has spread himself
over four or FIVE seats must tai Q
down his feet and sit along.
Two summers ago there might
have been seen a train Of coaches,
four Of them were filed people
sitting on the wood boxes aud
standing in the aisles-the fifth
coach had one man in it; some
kind of an official, clothed in little
brief authority. He chose and had
the power to use a car to carry one
hog. No one can estimate the
possibilities of that man ifhe had a
chance, but we will manage to sup
press him. The average life of a
hog is only twelve years.
There is a certain document writ
ten by Thomas Jefferson and sign
ed by good and great men (some
Irishmen among them, one in par
ticular, Charles Carol Of Carrolton,)
which speaks Of life, liberty and
the pursuit Of happiness" as being
inaIienable rights. Life, liberty and
the pursuit Of happiness depend on
land. Happiness isnot bird, and
fit were, we have no wings. We
have to hunt ON the ground.
Every human being born into
this planet must live upon the land
if he lives at ALL The land Of any
country is the property Of the Ma
ton which occupies it. So says
Thomas Carlyle, Herbert Spencer,
John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson,
Golden, Bright, and the Old and
New Testamcnts, and SO say we all
of us. Place 100 men on an Island.
Give the ownership Of all the land
to one, and he owns the ninety
nine. A man to be a citizen, a
patriot, a free man and happy man,
must have some stock in the land.
He must have sufficiency for the
present and security for the future.
Mississippi, between 1860 and
1870, had added to herself 1900
small farms that means 10000
patriots, school houses at the cross
roads Libraries, debating schools,
and life, liberty and happiness pur-
sued and overtaken.
Rent is value, created by the
whole community What is your
house and farm worth if it is alone
no roads to it, no market
no SCHOOL, If rent is value.
created by the whole com
munity, it belongs to those who
create it. Is it worth while to in
quire into the title by which Eng
lish landlords hold the land il
Ireland2 Have they improved tht
land ? and do they hold it by virtue
Of their work as a miner holds his
claim, as settler Of Government
land holds his2
They hold it by Rob Roy''
title
| "For why ? Because the good old rul,
Sufliceth them the simplest plan
That they should take who have th'
power,
And 10y should keep who can
In comparing the evictions il
the past two years in Ireland, anc
the distress Of the famine with tht
evictions and distress of the grea
famine Of I847 ! find less evictions
less distress. The potato croI
failed in both cases. The land
lords have been as cruel now a:
/ then. There has been a new factor
come into the calculation. 1t die
not exist IN IS47-it does in 1887
| the I.aad League. Eviction is now
practically arrested. There is
within the month, a feeling Of hope
of self-reliance come upon the PEG
pie. With the methods ofthe Lane
League you arc familiar. They
are legal. 1t is not Illegal to refuse
to take land from which a tenan
has been driven-not to trade witt
| the agent who has done this. There
is nothing illegal in letting hin
alone; there is power in it. Thi:
method results i'll his washing his
own shirt, cooking his own food
being his own servant. 1t freezes
him out. 1t makes him feel lone.
some. This is the way he ought tc
feel. If he wants society let him &C
across the channel; he has no bust.
ness in Ireland. Boycotting is a
new word but the thought is an ole
one. The agents Of King George
III, in and about Boston Bay, du-
ring the years Immediately proceed
ing the Revolution were made &C.
quainted with this plan.
There was 10 market for Eaglsl
tea People drank sassafras and
hemlock tea, native tea, and wore
homespun. The Tax Collector was
not made to feel at home anywhere
on the Lexington Road Old Sam
Adams let him alone Everybody
let him alone 1t the Collector OF
Taxes must have society, he could
cross the Ocean --"go ONE.
The Boycotters of l774 are th,
men we talk about on the Fourth OF
July.
"Boycottiug" will be all right when
il has succeeded Il vii be a grand
word Nothing succeeds like sue
cess That makes Father ont Of
a Colonial Rebel There is in Ire
land Organization" Tie people are
not like sand they are like rock
They have the wisdom gained from
old failures.
Outof old defeats they have learned
70 organize victory. Protestant and
Roman Catholic are seen to stand