Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
am opposed to violence. prefer the ballot
TO adjust these wrongs
Our land and our liberty was tyon by

| can MAINTAIN their rights by force
EFFECTS OF LLSDLoRDIsM-
| Here is what Henry Labouchee NJ p,
| editor Of the London Truth. says of evic-
| tons in Ireland. He says: The horrors of
| Glenco have been outdone by those of the
! glen of Glenbeigh. II is a barren and desc
! late spot and its wretched soil has been
made to produce heritage by the toll of the
| people that inhabit it. They are so miser-
! ably poor that it Is wondrouS how they and
| their families can live. while as for rent.
| how are they to procure it, This glen be-
! longs 10 the Hon. Rowland Vim, who. it
would seem. has handed over its inhab-
( itants TO the tender mercies of some London
| money dealers. The agent OF these Shy
locks appeared in the glen with policemen
| and bailiffs and DEGREES of eviction death
| seutences). The wretched huts in which
| the people were living were burned over
| their heads and the gang drove on. leaving
| aged men and women, and children VINO
could hardly crawl, without roof 10 cover
\ them in this Indictment season. What
would these poor people not give for q
| Texas Hogg 10 root up the whole bunch,
and Texas legislature to enact Just laws2
| LANDLoRD1sM IN SCOTLAND.
Down to the reign of King William III.
the land of Scotland belonged 10 the PEG
| pie of Scotland. In that reign landlordism
| was established. and its first fruits was TO
| take q mean, iow-down man and give him
| the title of Earl of Orkney, together with
| an estate Of the stolen lands in considera-
| tion OF his marrying left-of mistress OF
| King William, ana the poor people are at
| this day paving rent 20 the Earl OF Orkney
| for the very land of which their fathers
| had been robbed 200 years ago.
We now come 20 a man VINO ought 10 be
| known here, as he IS one OF our present
| landlords, the Duke OF Sutherland. Let US
| examine some of the doiugs OF this SUther-
| land family on their Scotch estate towards
| their serfs. The dutchess started to make
| a game preserve for Prince Albert and his
| London chums to go deer stalking in, and
| in doing so resorted To what the press OF
| that day called the Sutherland clearanceS.
That is, she, the patrOness OF Mrs. Beechcr
Stowe; she who shed crocodile tears OF
sympathy over wrongs inflicted on the
negro, issued her ukaSe Of death 10 clear
| fifty square miles of the highlands of man,
woman and child TO make room for deer,
but as the process Of evictinS was too slow,
she reSorted TO the faster system OF burning
the cottages over their heads, and as the
houses were matched with straw, the plan
was effective. An act of grace. When
the house was in flames, all those who
wished to obey the law had the liberty of
running out. All of 4 rebeliious spirit
could remain inside. But no one on the
border of the tifty-milc limit dare give
shelter to the hunted ones. i Presbyterian
minister permitted poor mother and her
little ones to stop one night in his cart-saed,
for which offence he was eyicted, and as the
lord of the soil is also lord of the kirk he
lost his living. Another case, an OLD
woman who had been bedrldden for many
Years was unable 10 run, so they burned
her III it. She had a rebellious spirit.
Some people said it was murder: so the
duchess was tried at the Inverness
assize and acquitted, of course. II was her
servants who burned the old cripple, for so
the words OF acquittal ran. 1t wus ma his;
il WIS his man. / was about to say from
such brutal tyranny may the Lord deliver US,
but think with the help of the alien land
law act we will not require deliverance.
God helps all those who help themselves.
What an awful day it would be when the
Duke of sutherland could burn some of the
Texas citizens out and turn il into Il game
preserve. Me thinks | hear some one say,
Son, such things could never happen here. "
| believe that one ounce of prevention Is
better than pound Of cure. The grunt of
the Texas Hog has sounded the death
of Sutherlaudsm in Texas, and the strange
echo comes back from the state legislature
No foreign landlordism mere: and the patri-
otic portion of orr people all say, amen.
LANDLoRpIsM IN ENGLAND.
In 1884 Dr. Bagshaw, bishop of Noting
ham, writes: ''Cnhappily in England the
state government is chiefly in the interest
of the wealthy and laud-owning classes,
leaves this unjust and barbarouS power al
most uncontrolled. We see this i'll the
rackrenting and evicting which has gone on
for so many years in ireland. and still goes
on. which has caused the ruin and death OF
millions and most mischievouSly depopu-
latei that country. 1t is evident to every
one that an accumulation OF land gives to
its owners a power TO make poor men
through sheer necessity, and to avoid star
walton, work for them on the owners own
terms. He takes 10 himself almost the
whole profit of their labor arbitrarily gives
or refuses the right TO live on the land and
so holds at his own caprice, the lives and
homes OF muitituGes.
The anen land law act was TO prevent
such a state OF things.
Many honest and well-meaning people
don't know what landlordiSm is. II don't
mean working en- shares. | now turn to
America. | read the speech of Congressman
Holman on the postOffice appropriation bill
in 1854. granted 10 railroads 2lS, $50, 1876
acres. He says the legislator who conSiG-
ers the mere money value of the land
granted, enormous as it Is. takes very
superficial view of the subject. Had the
value of these vast millions of acres been
granted in money from the public treasury,
or been expressed IN bonds issued by the
government, the only evil TO our free inSti-
tutions would have been the granting of
great fortunes by the fayoritism of govern
ment to portion of its people at the eX-
pense of their feliow-citizens, but the evil,
great as it might be. would not go beyond
this. But the giving away in vast tracts 10
the favorites OF congress of the fertile l2-Is
which. on any just conception of our free
institutions, ought to be the free-holds of
our people, advancing the price of these
lands beyond the reach of the laboring and
landlcss men of the present day and early
future is an evil that admits OF no remedy
except revolution. The amount OF land that
is being acquired by foreign capitalists and
landlords is fairly amazing. Ireland is to-
day grooming beneath the yoke of oppres-
sion, and not many years will roll around
before the American tenant upon his knees
will also look up into the scowling face OF
his master and acknowledge his obedience.
The following are some Of Americas for
eign landlords and the amount Of their hold
ings expressed in acres:
Acres
An English syndicate No. ?. in Texas. 100000
The Holland land company New Mex
Sir Edward Reid ana syndicate in
FLORIDA. -.... .--...----... ........ 100000
English syndicate IN Mississippi. l.s0Gu1O
Marquis OF Tweeddale go. ---..-.--... l,.5o0t1