Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-09
POST : NTELLIGENCER
Vo1-KEsIDENr OWNERSHIP.

yeE.RESlDENr OWNERSHIP
There ia no greater curse 10 country
4 Exa nonresident ownership OF Mines
esjccs,sr OF lands, that is 20 say. no cosn
1try can be permanently prosperous
zfxx,e main sources of production are
sxsuapolized aud controlled by non
rosidx.ts. We do not need TO look at
sns hist ory of ireland to rea ize this
facx. The ownership and control OF
zuTres IN Nevada and Arizona, by per
sous and corporations whose residences
1ud III incipal places OF business we're IN
ati,ar States, have been Of inca.culable
5niury 10 that State and Territory. All
E1s yuoflts accruirg from success ini
sr-sning have been exported, and the re
salt is that nothing is LETT but an ex-
Esausted region and high taxes to the
fex who remain in the country. Gould
tho s,et profits o. mining III Nevada
have been retain in that State, IT
zzeuld, today. instead Of being poor, DC
<ass Of the richest coDnonTeal.hs IN
5be Union. We read much of the bon
a1rza farms of Dakota. We are called
1,,az to marvel at the extent OF lard
3vrzs1 and cultivated by some wealthy
zrancpoiist of God S acres, who, himself,
qes.l3ea in some Eastern city. We read
vi mics of waving wheat, OF the en-
q,Ioyneent of hundreds of men and
horses, of vast machine farming. In
the fail, after harvest, we read OF the
I chg trains of cars laden with the pro
ducts of those acres; of the profits OF
sEe vea-,-which, however do not return
70 ths region whence derived. but re-
gsaia to swell the plethoric bank &C.
count of the non resident owner.
Here are 10000 acres in one body, own
ed by resident of some eastern city.
Daring the summer season all Is hustle,
stfrg little village contiguous is prosper
ogs The iaboTers get their wages and
spend portion thereof. They have no
s1onies, no families, or if so they live on
rented land. The ownership is vested
1sroad. In the winter all il deserted.
The profits of the summers work have
goaa elsewhere. There is no increase of
zasiaess, no addition to population;
shere are no homes being built. no set
Elements created. The only benefit
which the country receives from tho
annual draft made upon its productive
RESOURCES, is the necessary outlay for
xz,oduction and harvest of the crop, the
sararabs which fall from the table of tho
xecs resident owner. This Is not true
prosperity. II is not the system which
5aIids up States and peoples them with
I'd energetic independent yeomanry.
That sort of growth which permanently
ssae6ts and builds up a region is found
1fzere the small farm, owned and cult
sassd by its occupant, predominates;
stxsre the net profits Oh its products he
laug TO and are retained in tbs locality
untch produces them, where a good crop
'gtsarc it grows, aud when the net profits
.4ea a community are retained to swell its
snnal wealth and constitute its indepen-
=3llioa.
1t Is the misfortune of all new oOun-
sxies that the first few years of their oc.
supat ion are wasteful; that, on this
s,ssist especially, vast enterprises nvolv-
aGg ea,ornOus outlay are deemed essen
1isl TO trUo prosperity. The profits of
h@ae. Foreign corporations occupy the
land, cut the timber. work the mines
ase cost of production alone ia the ben
SGT received by the Territory and its
citizens. Tho profits, the difference be-
agsen cost and sale, are absorbed by
.asz-residents. This, perhaps. is un-
sxrcida BILE. 1t is not said in a oaptlous
spa rn; certainly with no view of harsb
a.iaficism. Large enterprises involve
corresponding risks and require heavy
ssatiays before becoming profitable.
People of new countries arc poor and
are. forced to 80 abroad for aid. The
xseaf'ts must go where the money comes
Egan- This Is especially true of large
UaissiDg and numbering operations, and
x&,le the result, as We have shown. il
salroctly to dep,ete tho resources of "A
tsoantry, it is in all newly settled regions
s1an:ically unavoidable. But this doe /,
rs& apply to ownership and cultivation
III She coil. in that department OF
s1har no extended capita! il requisite,
ysa monopoly of vast landed interests
zSao1id be allowed. Land should be re.
'lsrved for homes aud families, for set
Giena and their children, for the mol, il,
ssa counties and States, not for ths
22lnal profit Of AN owner whese CHI
ksnship Is Of another State and in nlauy
<-Eses whose allegiance is due to an alien
GsEeynment. The strength of society,
ssxe reliance, OF on. government il o..
aas yeomanry. IL is to tito cvideu,
Aaaafit of the Republic to increuse the
. mber OF its homes and families. l,
- plain, self-evident proposition tina,
~ community is stronger when its lands
Dne owned by its own citizens, aud
-naher by the annual profits OF tLs pro.
t1uetions of its acres.
Recently one thousand Cinnamon left
sSsa Francisco for home, taking with
'shesn their savings in this land Of The