The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-08
FREE LANDS

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 Bailey, has awakened srea; in,eres, among ;hinsias readers. Henry ueorge pronounces |, a Srea; ~o,k. and des.afe, ,ha, \ shceld be read by ever, man whe $ interested la the vital sGh,eC; with winch !; deals The following was atit- ten by Mi BAiiey tor the Dallas .Ys, ,.G TtGth. Ike the sun ,a the heavens, n esef present n the unlNeise o. humanity . bui the revolutions oi tune CT inc shad- ows ei passing events. like the clouds ln 1 the armament, raay obscure ioi a while
 or conceal for season the brightness ot the one ot ,he beauty oi the other. HN- lRg explored all the secrets oi heaven having eNplo.ed all ;he ,iadlt,ons ei the past progress m Amer a. in the evening ot the nineteenth century. hnds itself brought taee ,o face w,th the same ma terra. and earthly questions tha; tweaiy- three hundred years ago VAS the vital l pom; I, issue IT republican Rome the l problem of pr,va,e property in land
 To those who have followed the atgu- men,s oi oha S;uar; Mil. Herbert spen. eer aud Henry George |, ~ill be sppar- en, that the vital 9iestion ,o determine now Is m; shal, the land be free but tab" AtAts sp 1tsai A1tG tGnaN DC brought ahoa, with leas; de,t,meni Ia the ,n,cres; ot the money making, and with
 greA,es, beneht 10 the working portion ot sociesy, Philosophy has m ,h.s pas,,eu 1 lar performed her miss,on, the abstract truth has been declared |; nos only re. mans tha, statesmen advance toward
 those truths by adopting such measufes of reform, ot change and ot adIustnient as |, Is the o.fi C of stA,esmen to deter
 mine. Ina, the nigh, ,o own, to buy or
 ts sell land Is theoretically erroneous ls prosed.by this simple test, If man have suifi leni m money he can buy ten milllons ot acres as well as he can bay one and If ten. why no, twenty, hf,,. one hundred millions as well There is no rcason m the ~orli e&cep, wan, of disposition and means. Ina, the dlspos 'ioa .s not lae kins IS esldeneed by ,he is, thA. competition in all other branches oi business is daily producing a dessrc aruongS capitalists to invest their wealth in land The recent purchase in Texas ot four counties by tpfeisn capitalists the purchase. by Hamilton Dsston Q, Philadelphia. of four millions of acres m lorida the purchase by syndiC ate of seven millions of Texas t1s4s i~ttNfB1f Ptttts lti- stances could bc cIted ,o shos tha; no, only Is Inc disposition no, wanting bG, .ha, Il IS actually mant.es,,ns itself and To the de;Tlment of 'hc prohc good. as further on l wia undertake to shoa. That the means afe no; ~4atns is also rVls denced by he iAi D. the Pute hases re- corded and by the further ia, that. as yet, our ~ealthiest men have no. eSet,ed themselves n this dsre, ton. II Mi. Diss- ton can buy tour million acres wha, is ,o prevent Mir Could buying ten million acres And, |; perchance eircgmsances guide m thls direction his enterprise and h,s dollars and he does posses himseli of this amount of land, he ~Ill be the absolute lord of an area equal 10 the whole territory of Belgium l. is idle So say that. ~hiie such acton is possible, |, wili no, be accomplished. Wha, IS pos. sible. circumstances may render prob lble, and the days of miracles having passed from the held of Ir.peral Rome. may in its revolutions through cycles ot ages, ind aga,n theatre of operation m Re- publican Amerlca, and the mos, demo- cratic cf all republics my ind that. by it's laws or it's negiigences. II has placed it ln the power of p!ebeiAns by birth and by vocation. to lord |, over the se.f-s,yled sovereigns oi the land of Washington.
 haze, in a tecen, work endeAsofcd 10 show the eyil results tha. iniic, us be- cause of this matter also. Tn the same work, have z,iemp p,ed % ti!l vacuum, which. so far AS l know, no one before me has lad much stress upon--that n, the results m the paracalars of com2e- tence and happiness ,ha, follow bec aase of free land in such eoan;nes where land IS not subject to purchasc and sale. In this commune a,ion 1 must limit myself 10 the assertion tha, no m an, however in . teihgent, is authorized to p2ss judgment n this matter until he has thoroughly is- yestIg gAted the data, either from original sources. or which are accessible tn the works before referred to certainly those who exercise thea ingenuity and their wisdom on such threAdbAre Issues as State Rsgh,s." and '- Cen;f4iizs,lor -- |" Free Trade and " Protection canno, assume such an amount of data only by intuition. on subjects that. eSc4pinx thesr sieS, have ye, sofriesea, importance 10 attract the scrutiny of Mill or the de- nuneia..on of Spencer. Taking |. for granted then, that those who are nos posted ln this mz.fes, will, for the time beng. coneede wha, we claim vlx that private ownership of land is detrimental to the intefes, of community or nation. we wish to point ou, as cencisesy as we can how, and 10 whz, extent the krmers of Texas are interested n tnis matter. Eighteen years ago, ~hen the only rail. road in the state wzs the Houston & rexAs Central. and which T. the time refer ,o ended a, AIllicAn. |, was freely prophe- sied, and was the universal opinion, thA, when tha, road reached Dallas a grea, gain would ensGe to the farmers. When this grand result had been achieved
 prosperity not ensuing. the reason as. signed was, want of competition ln irans.