The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-03-27
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This is apparently, from certain inli-
cations, but the beginning of the pur-
chases Of yet larger and heavier guam
titles of free American soil by British
aristocrats. At Macon, Ga, but fort
night since, negotiations for tho sale of
some two or three million acres Of pine
land in the southern portion of Geor-
gia to on English Earl were in progress.
Less than week ago the sale Of 7o,t0D
acres in Kentucky and Tennessee of
heavily timberel land was not effected
to British syndicate by Mr.. John Ed
ward Haynes, Of rs Nassau street, New
York City, as he and his brother capt.
talists insisted on 81. 30 instead Of - IN
acre, the price offered. II is asserted
that Dakota and the Black Hills are
swarming with English agents and cx-
perts for European capitalists tine Of
these is located at the town of Pierre,
on the Missouri River, Dakota, ready
to conclude his bargains for lands in
the Sioux reservation. as soon rs feast
BILE, with necessary Congressional ar
rangements. Another, whose card
bears the name of y. Taylor 4 Co,
Mining Engineers, Surveyors and In
spectors, S6 London Wall, London,
i. c., has a branch Office in Chicago,
and spends his time in Dakota and Col
orado on behalf of the English peers
and members Of Parlismc who have
money to invest in mines and acres.
Aud these are but few instances of
the many cases where the determine
ton on the part OF British aristocrats
to purchase heavily in American lands
have been made manifest within re-
cent period. As it is, the above fig
ures show that members of the House
of Lords and British syndicates have,
in their aggregate Of 2O,94l, GG6 acres
Of American real estate. greater acre.
age than all Ireland, 2,OOO,OOO of acres
more than Scotland can boast, and
over half as much land as there is in
England and Wales.
The greedy English acreocrat is
never contented. He now owns the
British Isles and English colonies body
and soul, but that is not enough for
him. Like Oliver Twist he cries for
more, and regardless of the fact that he
was Yankee-Doodled ont of America
over one hundred years ago, he is now
attempting a new conquest of this coun-
try. In lsl2 it was with musket and
cannon, but in 1884 it is with silver and
gold. His own colonies offer no induce
mcnts to his emigrational and agricul-
tural desires. The East Indies are too
equatorial and overcrowdel, and the
West Indies too yellow-fcverish; Aus
tralia too barren and Canada too cold;
New Zealand too much occupied al
ready and South Africa too Zuluistic
and Boerish. The British arceocrat
believes none OF these will soothe his
grasping soul, and he turns TO our
Western and Southern Stats as the IL
Dorado of his capitalistic heart. To
English subjects, whether they be
Saxon, Celt, or Gael in origin, no
American would object rs long as they
confined themselves to the 100 acres OF
land per head allowed by the home
stead act, which came into operation
January |, 1868. Blocks Of land, how
ever, aggregating millions and hundreds
of thousands of acres have already been
purchased, and arc of another genus
altogether.
What will have to he done about tho
presence Of unnatnralized foreigners in
our midst, with their grip on over TO-
900, 900 acres in Texas, Florida, Arkan-
sas, Wisconsin, Kansas. and other
States, will be great and coming
question. York Iforld.