Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-06-14

Probably about every reader Of h:
daily press knows that the Lib .ral
party in Great Britain. under the
splendid leadership of Sir Henry
Campbell -BannermaE. has declared
for Land Reform policy and that
the meaning of this Is determination
to tax land values, with :. view 10
fairer adjustment of the burdens OF
taxation. and to get a solution OF the
problem of congestion Of population
in cities and the hoiiing of larce
estates for the pleasure and profit Of
small landed aristoeraey.
When DR.. Roberts iectured at the
NJ. z. church the other night he PFC
tured on the screen the palace Of the
Duke of Westminster, the richest
man in England. said to be worth
siso.ooo.ooo. He also showed us tn:
wrctched iaborcrs in the hop fields.
and told us the city OF Glasgow had
a population OF seven people to each
room. He told me Afterwards thu:
he aseribed this diverR :nee Of wcal's
and poverty to municipal owner.
ship" He had taken no recognition
Of the fact that the whole area OF
England and Scotland. with Its con.
gestcd millions is practically ownel
by about 10000 landlords. He forgot
that human beings sleep seven in +,
room "and minus night shirts" BE-.
cause the landed gentry must aave
fox hunting grounds. rabbit runs.
and pheasant eovers-whieh neees-
sariiy makes the rentals high. on what
land there Is left for human hablsa.
iions. He forgot that Ill the coal
and metal mines and factory sites Of
England and Scotland are In the pos
session OF this handful OF landed pro-
prieiors. and that II Il were not ior
the free trade policy Of Great Brit
ain. which lets in the food supply
and the raw material for manuiac-
lures comparatively free cf tax. the
iandlcss, homeless. tax-burdcn-d
to;lcrs Of Britain would starvc to
death in a year. He forgot that At
the very time VIC sent shipioad Of
potatoes to feed the famine stricken
population of ireland, ;ha, little EN-
craid Isle had grown potatoes enough
to feed all her pcopic-but they ha
gone to pay the rent exactions OF alb
sen,cc landlords.
Surely England. ireland and Scot
land have population enough and
development" enough to the square
acre II that Is what makes a people
prosperous and happy. Yet the point
that will be impressed on the Land
Convention in Denver next week viii!
be that failure to sell out the publi::
domain of Colorado to landlords and
timber and metal and coal monopo-
lists will be fatal to Our develop
mcnt."
II will perhaps be well for some
body a, that Denver Land Convcn-
ton to draw attention to those re.
cent uttcranccs of that shrcwd Did
financier James J. Hill OF tic U. P.
railroad, talking to the farmers and
business men Of Minnesota at their.
state fair. He said: "The ideal .os
the prudent. loving. careful head OF ,
family Is the true ideal for q n1t' IN
Of rational men. The highest
conception of a nation II that Q! o
trustee to postcrity. s's No nation
was ever confronted with a st.ruer
Chicago was smaller than it is now.
question than that set before Us.
rapidly disappearing. We have done
with our forests what we are just as
successfully and rapidly doing will:
the rest of our national capital.
Within 40 years we shall have no
where ast Of the Rocky Mountains \
timber product worth mentioning.