Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-30

advancing ths price of those lands be.
yond the reach IT lab ring and land
lees men Of the present period ant
early future, u an evil that adulit- of n,
remedy except revolution. 10 make
these grants on the pretense Of progress
ana opening no th. wilderness to tn.
devei"ping power of labor. to Civ Iabo,
chance. II - invite - onr shore, the
theory Of tie Middle AGES. baconiaI
estates. baron ard serf. tue power OF
the ose 10 shelter the feeDieness of th
p'her. Wa II through imperial grants
the great country from the Atlantic
ocean 10 th- Allegheny range WAS se,
w u ana thence onward IL the VI isis
sippi, with prosperous people, remark
able tor the rnGRed virtues of their
manhood, bnt stl more remarkable
| ana without precedent in hist ,ty
Tor The general equality IN their ID .tt--
| i'hi possessions Here wa. seen the
natural outgrowtn Of our free instIsu-
! t"n~- IL the new theory of progress
tnfohgh saronlal grants producing such
fruits?
knt the evils Of this system are not
limited to the withdrawal for all time
from the great body OF our lab ring
ana inndi"ss people Of more than 90
/
IN the aggregate equ4iiuQ In extent ten
suc! states ~ Iudian.l nor In crsa-
tug coTporttlons Sd great and powerful
that they pervdde every department of
! your Gpvernment. tahpefiuI with Off
ciai authority and claiming the benefit
| OF every donbt, putting the Goveruneu,
Itself AT defiance nor ia the creation of
oyergroTn fortunes, which enter the
controlling departments Of your Gov
| ernmeht through st i'es Org tniZed un
der The auspices Of these cor yora.ions,
| and exercise Judicial, executive and
| legislative power. No, sir: the evil
does not terminate there. but under
this periiiious system Of progress. AZ au
inevitable and natural result, land mp-
nopoly runs riot, the land lobbers hold
high carnival. and the lands left after
taking out the great grants, the lands
left under tins tr-achereu- systeIn for
the people. are seized upon bv the vi0I-
liant land !ubbipg CAPITALIST and his
skiilful and inscriptions agents. Your
land grant roads every where meander
through your most fertile lands, on the
margin OF rivers and through fruitful
valleys, and even before the labOriny
men, your laudiess people, the men who
long To become, with their wives and
children. bp,.1 nile settlers of the naw
country, are able to turn their faces
westward the rem,ining lands---verv
fertile valley, every inviting field. even
the alternate sections reservef In the
land grants and far beyond-are taken
up section after section. swelling into
great private estates; and your pre-
emption la~, through frtut an1 per-
iurv. is made to do service IN this most
infamous proceeding. Opening up the
wIld-rness For whom Ine tyna
nj, settler, whose labor would make the
land fruitful. and whose children.
reared in virtuous industry. would give
strength and stabi.it, to their country?
No. SIR: Ia the land jbter and the
land owning bIrons who move 40 nat
uraily Alongside the Immigrant corpora
ton. You may travel for hundreds of
miles even In ID Dikott. and. aithou gh
YOU see no human habltatiOn, every
acre of the land has already
ceased to be part Of our
once grand public domain In vast and
solitary regions not an acre left for the
49, tier. Under the old time, honest sys
tenn of our fathers and Of the early pc
Rod of our age, every quarter section
entered would have been adorned by
the home Of An independent treeholder
and the presence of his vile and chil
drep. Time VIII develop the great
landed estates your itud grant system
has rendered possible, even 1t that WAS
not its original purpose, and Will call
down Iii" execratiou of mankind upon
the infamy. Even now list OF some
of them IL made public. How does this
neconne Republic? | clip the follow
iap fr IN tn. san Francisco Dr3y E.r-
aD.,ntr. Il leading journal on the Pacific
coast
THL GROWING MoNSTFB.
Bssdes the millions of aorc5 belong
ing to railroad and other corporations,
the amount of land that il being acquir
ed by foreign Capitalists and landlords
ia fairly Amazing. ireland IL today
9roaning beneath the yoke of oppres
sion, aud not many years will roll
around before tn" American tenant,
upon L:s knees. will also look up into
the 800 wing face of his master and &C
knuWlcdse his obedience. Following
are few of Americas foreign lat.d
lords and the amount of their holdings
expressed in acres
The Holland Land Company,
New Mexico p................ 4,.hc,UUN
I'm Eneltsu syndIc,t At, No. ), IN
Texas s................... 100000
Sir Edward Reid and syndi-
cate, III Florida ...... ..... 2,Wh,tUU
T. 'giish syd,cate. III MissiSsippi l.SUD,oU
MARQUIS of rSce.iair..... l.1JS.OOO
Philips, Marshall x Co. Lond IN l.3UO, 900
German syndicate e......,....... l.tUo.UOu
Anglo American syndicate. Mr..
Rogers. President London. iJo,uJO
Hyr All Ii Evans, of London, III
Missi,sipui. 7oOOOO
Duke of sutherland ..... AZ. 100
BRUSH Land Co. IN Kansas. 32n,ou
| Vim. VIII alley. NJ. r.. Peter
boro. England. .............. 10000
| Missouri! Land Company. Ed
| iuburgn, Scotland. ....... =. 1O,Oo1
Rob. RI Ieunsut, of London. 23o,UO
| ID 4ndce Land Co. Scotland. H1 900
Lard Duumarr, 10000
Ben jamin Newgas. Liverpool 100000
! Loid Hon 2htou. IL fiJridl.... To
| Lord DuRt.ven. III Color do. tb.tH
| English Land Co., in Flurid,.. 5000,
England Land Co.. Ia Arkausas 5000
| Albert Peel. NJ. F.. Leices'er-
SHIRE. Enal,nd. d.......... lo,vS
| SirJ. L. Kay, y,Yorkshire,E Encind 5.eS
| Nexauder Grant, Of London. In
Kansas Observation-Disclosures. o',oV
| English syndicate represented
by Close Bros. Wisconsin,. 10000
NJ r let b ,user. of Halifax. No
| v, Scotia. IN West Virginia. $4,000
4 Scotch syndicate. IN Florida pU.ou
4. Bossen, DANISH Consul, III
| MilWAukec..... ......... .. .p.NN
Missouri, Ltud Company. of
| I'd aburRh. Scotland. ....... l6I,0N
| -, ~ a. ptn
| Twsuiy million seven hundred and
forty seven thousand acres Aud tue
land grant system was To enable the
bona ide settler To reach the public
land admit the railroad land grant,
| are not responsible for two of the pur
chases set forth In the above list, but,
uniting those, here IL u Territory which
n the aggregate Is nearly Is large as
the great State of Indiana. held by for
eipn corporations. lords and capitalists
every acre of which, the two tract,
,mltted. 4 ain assured. IL within the
land grant regions, and entered unques
/ tionably through the aid of that in
famous system. have before me a lis'
. | hy .