Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-06-24

II nakine q spsaeh il ~ D. 8. esn-
ates one day Iast week. Mr Hear q
Massachusetts, said:
AGrsat orator and statesman. within
k9onty-lolr hours, Is q meeaina II he
1talo % Maine bald % express aympa-
thy gith ME. Gladstone, dsclaraa % his
andienea thai tha ona reason for shs
present oandition of Ireland, With her
Easl and wonderful fertility, Is thns enc
half her s0il u owned b. bstmeen nins
hundred and q thousand msn. and he
remaining half is owned By three thon-
aand The aAmo condition Of thinRs, %
Eroal oxl4ht, exists In England. 1
have here tho statistics, whiah vii nni
undertake. g rad; bu1 q Eary fau msn
10 GHea1 Britain, ] think less than seven
thousand IL ali, own the entire land Of
All that proapeBo1s and powerful ooun-
try; and tha result is. uosuithsiandinQ
eli the pride that The Enalishuann fesls
Ia his country, and notwithssandinQ her
power, notaifhslanding her wealth, her
sogkinRman emiaKaio 20 Ahis euanery
u they can eorapa together the means
20 Rst - he asAboaEd and make the
v 0VaQe.
Thsrs b a siagy thaf heard Of an
Amarioan In EnQiand Who was TRAVELLING
% = railroad train with Sir Watkins
Williams Wynn, the passea1oE Of tie
vagt landed estate which belanqs % tie
great house Of BuokinRham. Sir Wat
klns was q stranger 10 him. He asked
him pho owned the house thsy passed.
and The baFunel replied that 1haa wa
his. They uenl ten miles further. He
looked cut and saw 3 beautiful noun
tain ogested wiah wood and green on the
SIDES, and be said, Who owns this
meunkainfe and his fell0w-lraTalsF ts-
piled. rather eleopily, That q miRe.n =
Several miles farther on they came 20 q
wood and be asked Who owua that
Woodf" His fell0W-traveler waksd an
from ais sleep and said, . Why, that d
miae." Tho stranger got cut at she
next station and told the guard that
theFo vas Q IunAtio on the train Who
fancied that be owned The whola king
dom round about, and be thought they
had bstier take him into custody; bat
b vas not dangerous. 90 he then seemed
10 be aaieep.
This danger Is not g danger which a
found only Ia the imaaination 0e radf.
cal refoFmeks or domaRoquss oF alarm
lists. Il is the pregnanl and real danger
which menaoos our great npaeas II the
new states and in the Territories of the
Northwest. Il is reported 50 Us by Cen.
afoaalonal committees: it conea 20 uq In
c0mmnnioasions Of our Departments.
Here is 9 liBt contained in q d0oument
communicated 10 tbs House Of Repre-
ssntatiges at the second session Of the
H1ak o.. - an-la-na.-a
showing purchases of lands In this coun-
Try by foreign eyndiaafes which aREFs-
Rata 20,9Al .666 aoFsA
II neems 70 me that ws are aIl some
What jesily exposed 20 the criticism that
We have allowed this thing e 90 TOO far
already. The wonder is, not thatlWo !
have walked up 80 soon, but that We have |
uaksd up % late. In my Judgment the |
time has come when u Is she duty Of |
the Congress OF the United States, Wher- |
ever the matter Il ia tts power, 10 break |
up these large holdings BY corporations |
and aliens altogetheF, and to limit them |
strictly ~ this amendment Of mine /
proposes 20 limit them, 20 the ownership |
Of parcels reasonable II amount IN sin |
Rie hands. Certainly go acres are
enough for any one man who is himself /
tc be counted as husbandman. / do
not think We are aware Of the extent 10 /
which tenant farming has already be-
como an institution IN this country. |
According TO the oonsus Of 1880 there /
we're l,02l,60l farms rented By tenants /
IN the United States; l.02t. .e0i farms IL /
this country occupied By men 10 whom /
the produce Of the soil shey till does not
belong except - tenants Or holding IN /
dor lando sners who have nothing 20 do |
with the cultivation OF she soil. AZ this
proud as ve are Of our REQ
manry, which throughout certainly The |
northern belt Of states 10 this ceantFy,
aa in England. has been the Glass 10 |
which che history and character of
eur country has bean due, ws are the
largest tsnant-faFming nation In the
world.
The Senator from New York talks |
about the feadal system. and be inds |
mat system IN q condition that no one |
man shall eneroas moEs than go acres |
IN one ownership, and fails 10 hnd |
Anything Of fsudalism In q system /
under which l.021.6 tenants have |
grown up.
nv notion Of What feudailsm is 20 b |
dreaded di9sga from that Of my honoE-
Ablo friend. do n0t think that q con.
dition entering into the very oWnership |
Of land itself. that the land shall not Be |
sold 30 8 corporation 70 be held IN morn.
main, is fsadAiism. u is blow as feu-
daliam. do nos think q oondifion that
land shall be held on she lsnare that lt
shall not be cold to a man who owns 60
acres already is feudalisEn. Il ia bloc
at feudalism. / ind the danger Of the
fsudAl system 70 this ooantFy IN its e.
senee In tae system which provides that
one man shall own tke land which an
other man IL 70 lili.
The number Of tenant haldings u ea-
simate1 20 have increased 25 PER can't.
sinee The result Whirh have stated VS.
aaoeEtained IN she census % 1880. There
are bat 5A7, ~ tenant fArmeEs 10 Ire
land. and IN England and wales ~. .00e
more, making 97i,223 IN ell, and ID
Scotland 90. loi. So the United statas
a. the present. day possesses more till-
ere of The coil paying rent 10 land
lords, b. more than IS per cent, than
Rnelands Wales, scotland and Ireland
combined.