Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-02-18

dwellings, no small portion of which
are dram shops and ale houses own
ed by the brewers, who compel their
tenants to sell their wares. And the
Budget contained clause increasing
the tax OH drink.
Another factor is the "livings" occu-
pied by the clergy OF the Episcopal
church, who keep their tenure by the
grace of the Lords Temporal and
Lord Spiritual" who SIT in the Brit
ish upper chamber.
Such is the economi~ condition of
things in England today that about
one in every twenty-five of the inhab-
itants are dependent on some form of
charity. What they get is all produc-
ed by somebody in England, for NO
body is giving England something
for nothing. But the fact is few
rossess what they all produce, and
these few give back in almshouse
doles and old-age pensions a part of
what they conhscate under the pres
cnt system. These self-appointed
stewards of the common product did
not a little to fright the electors by
threats that they would withhold their
customary charities if the land tax
proposition of Lloyd-George was en-
dorsed at the polls.
When we consider all the low and
selfish interests that were added to
the naturally conservative instincts
of the Englishman and remember
that only 8 millions out of 42,ooo, 900
could exercise the right of suffrage;
that landed aristocrat could vote in
every Riding in which he owned prop
erty, while the tenant householder
has but one vote and under the abom-
Unable registration law has difficulty
in getting himself registered for that
one the disadvantages under which
the Liberals made their appeal to the
common people is apparent.
But turning to the matter Of the
''hveness" of the Georgian-econemy
question here in the United States.
it is interesting to study the label
on the goods again. Nobody knows
after all that Mr.. Taft has so foreibiy
and eloquently said in his Conserva-
tion Message to congress whether he
means that the natural resources of
the nation are to be conserved" for
the people as a whole or just for Mr..
ballinger's friends and their ilk. The
titled gentry of England have GER
sources of that country. 1t is only
by your leave m Lord" that the
rent paying multitudes over there may
snare rabbit or gather a faggot
with which to cock il. When Mr..
Taft was taking his Swing around
the circle" last summer he stopped to
visit a brother down in New Mexico
who owns two ranches. One is COM
posed Of 10000 acres and the other
something over 100000 acres. On one
of these are located three towns vary
ing in population from 600 to 1900
people. q get my data from ncwspa-
per correspondence of the date of the
Presidents visit and cannot vouch
for exactncss of fgures.) Every one
of those people have paid tribute to
the owner of those ranch lands in
order to live upon them; everyone OF
them is now contributing to the mar
kct value of those lands by his and
her presence upon them. Wipe off
the people and the value of those
lands would be just what they were
in primeval sage brush. When a gen.
Grafton age migration to America had
reduced the population of ireland
about one-half the heirs to some oi
the landed estates of ireland became
actual dependents on the bounty oi
others. Queen Victoria and the
Marchioncss of Lorne became patrons