The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26

WORKING BEAUTIFULLY.
he Concentration OF the Land.

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The landowners increased in num-
Der, between 1880 and 1890, in these
United States, according to the gov
ernment census, but q per cent while
the renters" Increased 40 per cent.
At the same time the foreign nabobs
and combines, after impovershing
their own countries, and making their
own people peasants, are coming over
here to reduce our population to the
same level. Read the following:
Immense areas of valuable ground
are held by wealthy foreigners, most
of whom are Englshmen. A recent
table, widely published, fixes the total
of such alien holdings at $4,000, 900
acres, distributed as follows:
| Names. Acres,
An English syndicate. No. 3, in
TIE exas. ..................... 100000
Mexico ........: ......... 4,5oo,OOO
Florida. ........................ a,0OO,Ooo
| NlScOunt Scully, in Illinois. 5000, 600
English syndicate in Mississippi. 100000
| Marquis of Tweedale. le.............. 1.ssO. 600
Phillips. Marshall & Co., London. 100000
| German syndicate. 100000
Anglo American syndicate, Mr..
Rogers, president. London...... 100000
sissippi.. ..................... 100000
Duke of Sutherland. ................ 425, 900
British Land company, in kansas $4,000
William Whalley NJ P. Peterboro,
Mssonii Land company, Edin. ''0'000
burgh. Scotland -. 100000
Robert Tenant, of London ..... 100000
Dundee Land company, Scotland 47.OOO
Benjamin Newgas, Iiverpoco'ii...........:: 100000
Lord Houghton, in Florida. ....... 10000
Lord Dunraven, Colorado. ......... 60N0
English Land company. In Florida. $4,000
English Land company in Arkan-
Alexander Grant, of London, in ''000
English Syndicate. represented by; 0 ~
Close Bros. Wisconsf. ........ :. 10000
NJ Elenhauser. of Halifax. Nova
Scotia, in West Virgia ala. ...-.... 100000
A. Boyson. Danish colssul, in Mil
Missouri Land compasy, Of Ediin-- '''''
burgh. Scotland. .............. 165.OOO
Total 230OOOOO
In the face of thi.o startling array it
may we'll be questioned whether our
British cousins did not blunder in call
ing attention to the sew pitiful sheep
farms bought up by ! couple of Ameri-
can plutocratS in Scotland. 1t is fair
to add to the Anglo American estates
above enumerated the enormous hold
lngs OF Manhattan realty by Squire
William Waldorf AstOr, the rentals of
which are being spent for the main
| tenance of English estates and de-
crepit Pail Mall journals'
Is that not startling exhibit?
| Think Of it. If tha0 land was divided
up into 40 acre tracts it would furnish
homes for $4,000 families, of six per-
sons each, or 3,450,O00 people. 1t has
been demonstrated in the state of
New York that eleven acres will fur
! a living for one adult person. In
France many of the farms range from
one to five and ten acres. And re-
member that the only political party
in the United States that protests
against this alien ownership of land,
is the Peoples Party. If they get in
to power they will take possession of
those 100000 acres, pay reasonable
price for them, and throw them open
to actual settlers at cost price. No
man who is not c tiZen or resident
of this country should be permitted to
take possession of vast areas Of our
soil and keep the children of the coun-
try without homes. 1t is a villainous
outrage that should be stamped out
at once. 1t is an attempt to re-enact
the history of enslaeed Ireland in this
free and powerful republic.
The Peoples Party and the Peoples
Party alone are making fight against
this great evil. Read the land plank
of the Omaha platform. You will find
nothing like it in tue platforms of the
| two old frauds. Come in with us,
bretheren, and give the people,
through the Peoples Party a chance
| to redress the peoples wrong This is
the day of fate. We need you.
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