The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-09

grievous, but natural and unavoidable inequalities in fortune and physical well being which. unfortunately, keep pace with civilization. and indeed appear to be intensified by progress.
 Is no, crime sn the increase: Yes.
 To what cause Is this due:
 To ignorance and poverty. Many very ignorant persons are not poverty-stricken, and many very well educated are. Prof lessor Vaughn died of starvation in a garre; in Cincinnati. cannot admit this cause Poverty, confess, does accoun, tor crime.
 To what do you attribute poverty. In it's last analysis. poverty is due to the pressure of population upon subsis- ,ence. In other words, the amount of land being limited by fixed boundaries. and the increase of population having no such limit, il IS apparen, that there must ultimately come time when there will be more mouths to feed than land to fur nish food.
 1 Do you think tha: time has arrived
 Not in America, but in England and Ireland, yes.
 
 rived in England and Ireland?
 Because there is much poverty. and there is no land for the people.
 Why IS there no land for the people :;
 Because |, IS owned by the aris,ocracy and many of the middle classes.
 How did they obtain possession of this and:
 In England some land was won by cultivation. some by purchase. bu, the greater part obtained by force of hand. :" ln Ireland. the land was gwen by the conquerefs of Ireland 10 those who would introduce civilization in Ireland.
 When was this Irish land thus disposed of:
 Several centuries ago.
 Have these owners as yet introduced any civilization of consequence.
 None 10 speak of up to date.
 The land of England having been won. you say, in the main. by force of hand. would not the people who suffer because of poverty be lus,hed in seixing by force of hand some of this land for themselves :.
 By no means. IL has been hundreds of years since the ancestors of the pres ent owners obtained possession. and what was ;ustihable in rude and warlike age would not De so n this age of refinement and culture.
 Who are the refined and cultured:
 Those who own ;he land.
 Has not Mir. Spencer somewhere asked writing of this land question, and agree ing with you that the greater part was won by force or fraud. a, wha, rate per annum does wrong become a right
 Yes, he has asked tha, question.
 Have you attempted to answer II:
 No.
 Is suicide on .he increase:
 Yes. Statistics show that in Europe some ooooo people die annually by their own hand.
 What proportion of these wretehes come from the laboring class
 About nYe-sIN.hs.
 There 4Ee then as many men. women and children ki.l themselves every year Is there are 1r.steera,s.
 In England, and n every i've years, as many people destroy themselves because of fpoyer,y and it's necessary consequences misery and crime, as eqa..l in number all the ! ghiy educated he a.,ured few Is .n De toued T. England, scotland. Ireland. Trance. Germany and the ai,ed States
 Thls $ certain.
 WhA; to you :h.nk oi he dcs oi mak, n l: possible. nay, easy taf e,ep man ~ao mlSA choose to haze his little farm. W..R go rents, s IAN to government oi iIem one .o three 0o.lAEs per acre, thus ! Ieasins tpe namoel those w..g need sa1h machinery, implements. ct, as Amer n manufacturers produce in. fe .s.a- A.>o tAe number ot ustomefs .gg eGr aaass, and by AaRgns always ess 'o .4r.! near eno-sh 10 reach d; !, .:le expense and na; s3 Lar II ;a ie s4ife the parting. pc-haps toE rfe, with every i.e q if!eadsa,g and every youthful asso- lti..on.
 nder iAe present system uea who would abfS tge psa ea l. s,ls | >as,vaat- age from them 4ai o,hef raGses :ha, we see millions working for q pare suoslst- eaee n order :hai iea nay nave much money, and. n lnu useq geac 2, eLlcailon showing ;his. ID proportion ts men be- came ea8eatea she, .e used te sork under such conditions consequently We see our cities crowded wl,h crimr4ls. -aa=.enee men ard sAfs b.eis, ~hie the ee4n;ry is over-T4n w.sh ;r4mps. h 9cot- lsaa some four millions of usen are and- les, and work T order ,ha, less than two thousand, who own he land. may have al income.
 Aha, ao you :h.ns oi the proposition advocated by some ia make lnd free n otder 'o co away wiIh ,hs state of affairs Z
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