The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-10-10
LAND OWNING
FOREIGNERS,
How They are Scooping up tho
Domain And E1aoting Heavy
Rents From Americans.
A PLUTOCRATIC IDEA

n II - w u a ! IL 4 A
OF What the American La aborsr Must Asks
up His Mind to do-And Of the station
In Life to which ie Hes Pleased God 70
Call Him-Rsck Rent Defined.
J. g. in Topeka Advocated
On page l09 Of "Coin LIP to Date"
will be found long list which con-
tains about thirty names ct lords and
ladies' of the british nobility who own
a large slice of our territory which
ought to have been reserved for homes
Tor our citizens. From an editorial in
tn Ottawa Journal Of May % l quote
the following:
That English aristocrats should rule
large dOmlnions in the United States, and
rule them from London. is first difficult
thing to grasp. For until it is borne in
mind that peers and peeresses of Great
britain are large landed proprietors in our
country-ViscountS Scully alone owns three
million acres in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska
does the significance of absenteeism in
landlords become apparent"
From the figures given the holdings
of alien landowners in this country
aggregate twenty-five million acres,
and that is constantly being increased
by real estate foreclosures. 1t is a
well known fact that most of the
money loaned on real estate is foreign
capital, and mortgages are now being
fOreclosed at lively rate.
Millions are now 80 frequently
spoken of that we never stop to con-
slider how much it actually is; there.
fore | am inclined to believe that
do ~
| he possessions of those alien landlords
or they would make a more vigorous
protest than they are doing.
took my pencil to figure out the exact
size of millionaire tract of land
and was astOnished at it's magnitude
1,562 square miles-almost forty miles
square.
| Now let us compare the Scully es-
tate of three million acres to Rice
county, just to see how they appear
The county is 24x3O miles, giving t
an area of 72O square miles, or about
46l 900 acres. Thus you see the entire
county does aOt contain 2 milliOI
acres, being only equal to about two
thirteenths of Scully's land. Then il
would require about six and One-hal
counties the size of Rice tc be as large
as the Scully estate, which cOntain'
1857 square miles. and is equal to ,
square whose sides ire sixty-eigh
miles long, or 272 miles around it.
We will now consider the entire
amount of land that has been mOnOp
olized by those foreign aristocrats
which aggregates 25 million acres, o.
39,O62 sqnarc miles. If it was all il
one body it would be about fOur-fifth
as large as England-abOut ore. ant
One-third times as large as Scotland
and bout five times as larg'
as Wales. Thus you see the,
own an empire within the bound
aries of the United States al
most half as large as their own owl
) country, the island of Great Britain
1t would be equal to a square who's
sides are 1877 miles long. 1t woul'
make 156, ,25O homesteads of 100 acre
each. Counting five to family ther
are 7S1, ,25O persons crowded out o
homes, because those aristocrats ar
allowed to monopolize, and then refus
to sell our birth right.
will again quote the Ottawa Jour
nal:
THUS Scully practically owns in Ill
inois the best part of Livingstone, Loga
ana FarWoll COuQCl0S. Inc St6Ue III lot
passed an alien land law directed solel
against Scully. To evade it he insisted b.
| forehand upon clause in all his lease
STIMULATING that the lessee should pay a
taxes accruing against the property LEASED
The result was the creation of large an
solid body of voters in the scully countie
as they are called, opposed to proposition
of public Improvements by taxation"
1t is reported that the proprietor
of nd inland onfOPo0 th
rack-rent plan, which is said to hav
been imposed with considerable sue
cess in ireland. 1t is also repOrte
! that agents were sent to Russia to en-
list tenants for them, because Rus
, sian serfs are willing to submit t
3 harder conditions than American citi
zens usually are. So far American cit
: zens have not yet made up thei
: minds to accept such condition
without a protest, which the Me-
+, York World said they must do i
these words:
l THE American laborer must make u
! his mind hencefOrth not to be so muc
Y better off than the European laborer. Me
must work for less wages. In this way tt
working man will be nearer that station
= life in which it has pleased God to cali him,
American workingmen, how do yO
D like that? You must remember ths
. by importing laborers and tenant
d from Europe and Asia, you are force
: to compete with conditions that yo
9 refuse to accept, but have voted to SUI
8 tain. 1t is said that an assOciatio
: has been organized to resist the d.
mands of British landlords. Son
/ American workingmen yet seem
> think they are independent, and ha,
Q something,tO say about what cOnd
+ tions shall be imposed on them.
Q may require a decision of the court
@ and perhaps the aid of few regimen
d of soldiers, to cure them of that d
q luslon, and compel them to submit,
y an Englisman would express it, ii
good FORM" It will be remembert
that the American Railway uniC
committed that mistake about q ye
ago.
Webster's dictionary defines rae
e rent to be ian annual rent raised
l. the utmost, or the full annual vail
J. of the premises, or near it." l suppo
"a the annual value of land is the value
% its productions less the cost OF produ
- ton. According TO that the tena
p for himself and turn the balance Ov
?. to the landlord, and pay the taxes b
e sides. I understand when such ren
D. are imposed the tenant has to pay
le stipulated price, and the taxes for t
I use of land, which is usually about ,
m its products are worth after the &C
"a of production is deducted. That &C
~ tainly is grand scheme for landlor
= and others who earn their living
" the sweat of some other persons Ia
KS IL ha hO I'd tho nth0P N
lows who do the sweating.