The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-04-21
ALIEN OWNERSHIP OF LAND.


that Congress take prompt action to
devise some plan to obtain al lands
now owned by aliens and foreign
syndicates, etc. Few Of us know
the importance of this subject or the
alarming extent of the purchases
OF land by European money in our
country. The Hon. John Davis, M.
G., referring to this subject in an
able article says: Suppose Great
Britain should send an ironclad to
| the coast Of New Jersey and cap;
ture bit of Sandy Beach on which
to erect Notifications and on which
to float the British flag. How our
| American blood would boil. That
bit of worthless soil would be re-
claimed if it cost the life of every
man in America. But on the other
hand the British millionaire land
lords have sent into the very heart
Of this nation that equally powerful,
if more subtle, war power, the
purse, and have captured many
thousands Of acres OF the best lands
on the continent without boiling
our American blood to any alarm
| ing extent"
| Why should Great Britain capture
this country with the sword? The
answer is plain; That she might
levy tribute on our people.
i Why do British landlords capture
our land with that other, war power,
the purse? The answer is equally
J plain: That they may levy tribute
on our people.
Let us examine few facts as they
exist to>day, black and portentious,
in the land of boasred freedom.
/ William Scully, British landlord,
: has sent his purse into this country
8 and has actually captured some
: ninety thousand acres of the richest
! lands in the State Of Illinois, and
J the American citizens living on those
acres are compelled to pay two huns
dred thousand dollars per aanum to
that British landlord, for the privi-
lege ;of cultivating the American
soil on which they and their chill
dren were born. Think of it, We
t boosted freemen ! The same soil
purchased with the blood of their
: ancestors little more than century
ago. That is a greater tribute than
King George expected 10 exact bS
the Sword in the days of 1776.
! This same William Scully, of Lon
: don, has captured seventy thousand
acres of land in Marshall county,
Kansas and thousands of acres of
land in other parts of that state, and
Mr.. Scully is not even the largest
alien owner of land in the United
States, hundreds of European mil
lionaire's, Lords gdnd Landlords to
day hold the title to millions of acres
of the most fertile lands on this con-
tinent. All this is done by that war
power known as "the purse" It is
done that Mr.. Scully and these
aliens may levy tribute on the stree
citizens" Of America, that their chill
dren may levy tribute on our chill
dren, that their grandchildren may
levy tribute on our grandchildren
and SO on down to the lapse of time.
What more could these alien Land
lords do if they. had all the armies
of Europe at their back? In many
parts of Colorado, Texas and Wyom-
ing, the citizens of those states are
paying tribute to European Land
lords for every blade of grass crops
l
ped by their cows and other animals
which are necessary for the support
of their families" This state of
affairs cannot exist much longer,
there yet fingers enough of that
spirit of liberty in the breasts of the
descendants of the ''mensof '76'' to
cause them to soon rise in their
might and through their ballots and
and legislative halls declare in no
uncertain tones that the motto of
this American nation is-America's
lands for Americas settlers.
MATTER of any kind for this de>
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