The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-06-19
LANDED MONOPOLY
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an perfected ly legislation THE
.ea.-h speaking people has," I+
f-sr.d legislation
Pour per cent II the population OF
SPARTA owned th. real estate u SIt't
that foQr per cent dictated tht
Terms ~ E~ssrrum-ut for the other
.rIu-ty-six per cent Thus sparta r.
r.EH.l q military government mat
stood by the SUoFd ana fell HN ta-
sword. \ landed oIirtrsh owned TIE
real estate Of Athens Aad oadi"M
wilson tells us la the The State That
3d. Athens "tA- latI WAS worked HN
tenant who undertook io I've
.urou the sixth part OF the produce ~
farms. the other tiNt-slNths going
Il. the owners of the land rms aus
Ter. Law Of the land made their very.
persons liable for the fuihliuent OF
hard agreements. If they failed ~ H.
they were sold into slavery il the
markets Of Egypt and Lydia Thus
The system Of Athens be
came rotten IL he core. SoioH at
tempted to work a political chang
b. reforming the ana tenure. This
lasted for a while. but finally he Hell
.leuic landed oligarchy MAS forced BY
arms To DO homage TO the Roman I'm
Nor was Rome free from land mo-
.Eopolies. for we find the Lycefan law
9.manding That a limit be pat 10y
law upon the mount Of public land
that any one citizen could hold, IN
order that there might be some for
all. to the breaking down Of the hate
ful monopoly of the Patrician land
owner" Under such a system the Ro-
man Republic became the Roman En-
pire. Thus. with the power Of GOV
eminent centralized in a few, Rome
the once proud mistress Of the world,
too. DeCam. a oil the nations
that are no more.
After falling to pieces of the he
Eoly Roman Empire. the Feudal Sys-
tenn OF land tenure sprung up on the
continent Of Europe. 1t was a military
system of government that gave birth
to the Feudal system. Under the
Feudal system all Lands We're held
mediately or Immediately Of the King,
the lord of the manor holding his land
Immediately of the King with his ten
ants holding under him. with all OF
the incidental expressions Of the Ecu
daI system. Thus, again a landed oil
garchy was born.
Under this system of real estate law
we may best trace the evils of the
system To a erlnination III the history
Of the French government. Just prior
to the French Revolution the nobility
of France represented a elan. their
law was. "Once a noble. always a
noble The nobility owned one-fifth
of all the lands Of the kingdom. They
controlled the hunting and fishing,
making it a crime for any other than
nobility To engage in such sports.
They were all Justices Of the peace.
None but nobility could rise to places
OF prominence in the Church or state.
They We're exempt from militia duty
ana from land taxes. ON the other
hand the great mass, the ~peasantry,
toiIing away on the land of the nobil-
ity, were forced TO support themselves
and their families from One-tifth Of
their produce. While they surrendered
the other four-fifthS to their lords.
Under these conditions the climax was
cached tina burst forth in a French
revolution. in which human blood
flowed freer than water.
The same land system vas intro
duced into England by William the
Norman. 1906. William granted ma
nors in different parts of the kingdom
to his Norman lords on account of
their faithfulnessto him. But in Eng
land the Feudal system took quite a
different course from what il did in
France. The English speaking peo-
pie chose to work reformation in the
system by Legislation and not by
tuition.
Thus, by the Charter Of Henry |,
Magma Charta. the Charter Of Henry
III, the Statute of Quia Emptores.
the Statute of De DOnis, the Statute
Of Mortmain, the Statute OF Uses. and
finally the Statute of Il. Charles II,
The English speaking people by pro
gresSlve strides in legislation rid
themselves of the banefu! incidents
of he Feudal system.
OF the above mentioned Statutes. i
wish to call the peoples attention only
to the Statute IF Mortmain. Ecclesi-
astical corporations of England ac-
CURED title to large quantities of real
estate interest and by SO doing 4
landed oligarchy was produced in
England. The people then being
rouse TO find the public interest
assaiIed from such a source came to-
gether in their Legislative power and
enacted the statute of Mortmain, for
bidding dead hands-corporations-
from holding real estate: this Statute
has never been introduced viii full
effect into the United States. except
in Pennsylvania, but the ownership of
land has been controlled by legisla-
lures in most of the states. Thus. the
verdict of history un"questiOnably JUS
titles the assertion that q landed oil
garchy is dangerous and is sure to
undermine the foundation of a demo-
cratic form of government.
In support of my second PROPOSE
ton. that the recent purchases OF real
estate in Eastern North Carolina
made by that which purports to be
standard Or are indicative Of q
land monopoly, | ask YOU in cool
ness and in SOberneSS, in the face oil
the unanimous verdict of history &c
review the history of standard OIL.
hat your feet may be guided by the
lamp of experience, and. then, answer
to yourselves whether or not sucF
dangers are pending.
OIL first entered upor
the industrial arena as a dealer in oil
Reader. stop and think. do you know
of another concern in the world to'
day. except STANDARD Oil" that deal!
in oil. STANDARD Or next conceived
the idea that there was money IL Pa7
state Gas. Reader do you remember
that not more than eight years since
~"StandarG OH drove every dealer II
gas stock from the markets Of TIT
world and held a monopoly TheI
STANDARD Or saw an industrial fu
ture in "Amalgamated Copper" Ane
after once forming a monopoly OF
copper Thomas Lawson makes tn
charge and STANDARD OH has no
seen fit to deny it,. that ii robbed tn
people Of thirty-six million dollars il
one day. and thereby perpetrated