The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-08-05

These are impressive figures both of
original possession ANA continued acqui-
sition, but they need explanation to real
ize the whole truth. 1t was once the
statement of Mr. Webster that the sun
never sets upon the British dominions
and the rich Imagery in whici. he clothed
this truth has given, as in Nenorhon' $
description of the retreat of the ten
thousand creeks under his command,
Immortality to his verbs Bat the sun
never sets upon tue lands of the United
States. The golden gate that opens to
the great city on the Pacific is only mid
way between PASSPORT, on the northeast
ern line of the Union. and the far of
limit Of Alaska, purchased from Russia.
With only u break of q few degrees i'll
the line between Washington Territory
in the northwest and the southeastern
limits Of Alaska, and with the slightest
deduction, the country extends seven
teen degrees more than
HALE WAY ROUND THE woRRD,
and through 191 degrees Of longitude.
When the woodman at the rising of the
sun is chopping down his single tree from
the virgin forest of Maine, part OF the
1900, 600 feet of lumber still left in this
one State, the fisherman of the Aleutian
Isle i'll far Oft ALASKA is welcoming the set
ting sun that closes the labors of the day.
Any legislation which would take any
part of the land from its owners, 50 far
as it has private ownership, Or place what
is owned by the government, by putting
it beyond the reach of private ownership
would begin in folly and end in revolu-
ton. Every man has 4 right to the full
and peaceful enjoyment of his labor The
State owes to the citizen every possible
guarantee of property, whether in the
form of labor or in the form of produc-
ton from labor and capital. He may in
create the properly for his full benefit Of
his family Or for the good OF others. Cap
ital nor labor can be forced from him by
law, and still less be forced from him
without law. Both must come and 90
through their natural channels. Giving
to the few what belongs to the many
ncglecting masses of persons to the adj
vantage of individuals, like the inter(ic-
ton of work by combination OF persons.
is in violation of common right The
Introduction of the freest navigation by
statutes that obstruQt commerce is also
an injustice.
| INSECURE PROPERTY AND ITS EFFECT.
What comes from insecure property is
seen Just now not only in Egypt and Tur-
key, but in about all the provinces of
Asia Minor, where the farmers are liable
to be turned adrift on the shortest notice
and where taxes are raised upon the full
products of what the land produces In
Syria, also. is illustrated the practical
| idea of soil ownership in the government.
The Grand Seignor there is literally lord
of the soil, and the collectors, of the land
tax are an improvement upon a licensed
banditti. Where the government receives
one dollar for taxes, the collectors, by
free living and spolistion, get two or
three, and where this system has beeL
tried in land or III the use of communi-
ty in goods or work. it has made the peo-
PIE wretched and the country miserable.
Thrift, industry and ability will submit
neither to a community of goods nor to
any agrarian law in lands. Nothing is
more emphatic III the rule of the ancient
law-giver than the declaration: Thou
shalt not remove thy neighbours land
mark which they of old time have set in