The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-05-26
Away With Alien Lardlordism.

The peop.e Nj. watc- closely the
action Of the house ri Representa-.
tive, on tay b'.i 70 prevent alien,
from acquiring real estate III the
terrllotic, the es !! which thi. meas
arc d, inteu I'D 70 arfes, should have
been dealt With .ong ago; bu, The
absorption ot cur public lands by
foreign capitalists, corporate or in.
aiv.dUai, was carrie. on 80 crlttily
and quietly iaa, .Lc abuse OF the
PLAN purpose ol oar .aw, and def
arcc Of the spirit Of American iusti.
tui:1hs tor some time escaped notice.
N"w our eve. are opened, aud We
learn with dl>.u,. aud resentment
that vast tract, in tie most fertile
sections Of the national patrimony
have been grabbed by British oil.
garcIS who i0tesec that their own
e"Untry vii soon lie too hot TO hold
them, ana who are planning to trans.
fer ~ our free soil the system OF
absentee aud alien landlorlism about
To be stamped Oh, Of Ireland.
The extent to which this olious
evasion Of our homestead laws has
gone Il even ye, imperfec,ly appre-
clateI, bu, the partial lis, of alien
landowner, Land before the house Of
repr, ,entaiives has alarmed the pub.
he mind, and full statement OF the
facts il now impcfatively called for.
The interior department and the law
department OF our federal govern.
ment would he better employed in
exposing and defeating this mon.
str.us contisca,ion Of the peoples
inheritance, than in bolstcrlDg the
speculative .chcmes Of a telephone
stock company. The poor men for
whom and for whuee children the
public lands were held In trust will
look TO Secretary Lamar for de
tailed and exhau. i've disclosure Of
alien depreda,ions on their rights,
and they will require Attorney Gen.
eral Garland to explore and ca,ti.
gate the frauds by which alone the
noXiuU, lucubu, Of foreign landlord.
ism mas been fastened on our cour
try.
Even in the incomplete cnumeya
ton furnished by the chairman of
the house committee on territories
there are some astounding items.
What do cur hard working fellow
citizens, for whose future homes our
public lands were supposed to have
been set apart, think Of the an.
nouucement that by Trick and de.
vice 4 single British nobleman, the
Marqui. Of 'Iwcoldalc, has managed
to gobblc up more than . million
aud half Of acres in the mos. valu.
able portion Of our trans Mississippi
territory DO the victims of thi,
robbery grasp the meaning of such
figures; Do they understand that
an area Of American soil twice as
large AS the state OF Rhode Island
has fallen into the clutches o! sin.
gle European landlord, who has nev.
or dreamed Of becoming an Amer
can citizen, but who means to spend
abroad the revenues Of his western
prlncipality ~ the incomes wrunp
from starving laborers are spent by
Irish absentecs!
The land grab of Lord Tweed.
dai, il not by any means unique
The duke of Sutherland, the duke
of lIaml ton. Lord Dunraven and
Sir William Whallcy are each cred
tied with the requirement of huge
tracts of western land, amounting
IN some instances, to many hundred
thousand acres. Besides the ind
vldual pIntocrats operating on their
own account, British corporations,
or land companies, have engaged in
the evasion Of ctr Homestead legis.
la'ion on 4 gigantic scale. The mo.
tlscs prompting such investors may
be iorcibly illustrated hy the case OF
the duke Of Sutherland. Here i. a
man whose estate in the Highlands,
spanning the whole breadth Of Scot.
land from sea to sea, is the fruit of
a notorious crime against justice and
humanity II is but a little more
than century since the wide lands
Of which the duke Of Sutherland
now calls himself proprietor were
owned III common by the clansmen
Of his family. through the harsh
enforcement Of imported laws the
humble tenants Of the soil were
elected and reduced to choose be.
tween exile and starvation.
But the day Of rctribu,ion is at
hand in Scotland As well as Ireland.
The men made opulent and mighty
by the deso'ation of the Highlands
are fleeing from the wrath to come.
In foolish hour they counted on
playing the same game with safety
upon our far western plains. But
they will find out that impunity will
not ontlast publicity an hour, We
will brook no anarchism here. and