The Forrest City times., 1890-12-06
Copyrighted, 1886.
CHATTER XIII. coNr,S,,rp.


 grain, and he received one dollar per bushel for his wheat and twenty-five cents bushel for his corn. I hal to sell when Lord Sanders agent demanded the rent. and got sixty cents per bushel for my wheat aud fifteen cents for corn On tho two you can see quite margin for free dom; yes, freedom. l am bound under an Iron clad leaso almost as binding as Q bill of sale used to be in slavery times"
 'But you need not stay here if the terms do not suit yon," remarked the duke.
 That's true. But here have a shelter: my wife and child are quite comfortable. If I should leave here 1 might do even worse. Some of the tenants on Lord San ders' estate have a terrible struggle to get along. One day last winter when the thermometer was twenty degrees below zero, went to tenants house, and there they wsne boiling whole corn to keep them from starving. Their fire was made of roots dug from the earth ten miles distant and brought home to burn to keep them from freezing. Oh, 1 could tell you tafes of sufferings that would make your heart ache. If there is any more suffering in Ireland than right here on Lord Sanders estate, God pity them Here in this beau. tiful country where everything grows in abundancel went round to the different families and gathered up provisions to Keep one family from starving to death"
 What made the people 50 poors" asked the duke.
 "Becanse they had to sell all they could raise to pay the rent, that the greedy land lords may live in case and luxury in some foreign city, where he cannot see or hear of the misery he causes. While the thrifty farmers, like neighbor Jones, who have their own homes, must pay their own law ful taxes and portion for my Lord san ders beside'
 "Why man how do you make that out'' asked the duke. Your neighhor has i'm proved his lands. while Lord Sanders has not, that makes the difference
 That is just where the injustice comes In. If Lord Sanders had to pay taxes on that naked land and not on the improve ments, he would soon be willing to sell some of his hundred thousand acres But while he can shirk out of the taxes and re- ceives good rent, he will not sell any of his broad fields, though offered five times their real value.n
 You are rather hard on the land owner" said the duke If you could carry your theory into practice you would make fine mess of the finances of your country Ii might benefit the small farm CTS, but 1t would be hard on the landlords who hold large estates,n
 Well, sir, We would be willing they should sufrer.a little. They have bled the people long enough Beside, the lands of this country were intended for the many, Tor hn I To t> tl. man who owns the lands live on them and use them himself, and not have the power to grind the life out of the unfortunate man who has not been blessed with rich relations, fat offices or lucky opportunities, by which he can buy or steal titles to lands that God made free as the air we breathe, for all to enjoy and use, not to monopolize and abuse"
 Then you would make null and void all titles to landsf" asked the duke.
 As means of wealth and speculation would, but not as a means of life l be. heve laws should be made, by which titles to lands would be granted for use and oc. cupation only. And that all taxes should be levied on land values, but nothing on improvements. Why, as it is now, there Is a premium offered to the man who can hold the most land and make the least i'm provements. As it is now, if you build house you are taxed for it. If you plant a tree or shrub, or do anything to add beau ty to your home. you must pay for the lux ury in additional taxes, Lords Sanders knows how that is. He will not even put a coat of paint on that old shanty or dig a well for fear of his taxes being heavier"
 Are there many of your opinion in this settlement" asked the duke,
 Yes, sir, nearly all the tenants and farmers generally believe as do But we tenants are not free to vote as we please We must follow an unprineipled agent and vote with him or be evicted Talk about freedom and progress' We are not free. but we belong to q class of serfs and slaves. We are slaves of the foreign land lord all because he has been allowed to in vest his wealth in American soil But it will not always be so, said the man with warmth These foreign landlords. he continued, think they are riding an ass, but they may yet find the beast to be an enragcd tigress instead, They cannot bind Us body and soul forever The Farmers Alliance clubs that meet in almost every county in this state and in the United States arc putting new thoughts into our heads and new impulses into our hearts, which inspire us with new hopes. If We only unite in our efforts we will yet crush out this great land monopoly and defeat the foreign landlords The Alliance sends good reading into the tenants homes and children will learn that the greatest crime Of the nineteenth century is this alien landlordisml l say God bless the Farm CTS Alliancel And may he send LIS wiss taw-givers so that just laws shall be enact cd and fairly administered and human equality enjoyed, We want government of the people. by the people and for the peopleF Then we can defeat tyranny at home and abroad
 we have no need to import landlords, They are of no more use to us than a pack of wolves in flock of sheep. They pro duce nothing They do not even spend the money they obtain from us iu this country, but 1t goes to England or some other foreign nation, Why, Lord Sanders makes his boast that he receives from his tenants in America two hundred thousand dollars every year. Good day, gentlemen, | must go on with my work said the man, starting for the field with hls team and cultivstor.
 We visited Ave other tenant families that were living on Lord Sanders estate. One was an Irishrnan, When the duke asked him if he liked living in America, he said
 Och, and it's bad luck to me that iver came to America at all for l am under the self-same old master a. l was in Ire landl woe be to himl He evicted me theref'
 What do you meanr asked
 Lord Sanders had hundreds of us turned out at once, like pigs in stye; ye pee he wanted the land for cattle But we made him sick of 1t, and he sold his land there and bought here. Bad luck to him And I'm one of hts tenants again I left Ireland and came to free America to get me home"
 Every tenant we visited was discontent- cd and eager for change. But they did not dare 10 leave for fear they would not lind another place as good Hard as 1t seemed and discontented as they were. they all realized that there were plenty of other men waiting to gctcven chance on