The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-18
Dis
tricts Look For
ward to Great
Prosperity With
Farmers Owning
Properties Which
for Hun Dire d S of
Years Have Been
Leased From er-
ritorial Nj agnates

cause his quarrelsome, cantankerous
disposition had rendered his contin-
lance in the House of Commons
matter of impossibility. The presen:
Earl, who Is almost as quarrelsome a.
was his grandfather, derives alnos;
his entire income from coal mines and
from coal royalties in the county o.
Durham The other day he FLASHED
with Bob Smile, the president OF the
Miners Federation, before the commits
sion appointed to consider the Nalua-
ton of the mines now about to be
nationalized, and in reply to SMILES
contention chat he had no Just title to
his coal lands and therefore no right
to compensation quoted the Scripture
and the remark made by the found'F
OF Christianity to the effect that one
should render unto Caesar the things
that are Caesars and unto God the
things that are Gods"
The Duke of Sutherland has in pur-
suance of the course initiated Ivy his
father, continued to sell off as rapidly
as possible his enormous holdings o.
land, which in Scotland alone amoun'e'
TO over n million and a half a'-"s
and in England TO half million acres
more. In fact the territorial posse
sions of the Dukes Of Sutherland IN
the United Kingdom embrace am area
larger than many a sovereign state On
the Continent of Europe. Tho DnF9
of Portland. whose possessions com
prise great acreage in Scotland. M
the Midland counties Of England ava
in the metropolitan district Of Lon
don, is following suit. So too IS tN'
Duke OF Grafton, the Earl ~ Scar
borough and Lord Shaftesbury
The Marquis OF Butte, whose Ts'hN'
was portrayed so graphically by I.0.L
Beaconsfield as 'T4uthair' in ms r'.'-
brated novel OF that name, stands -
lose not only his vast mining roH0
| ties but also all the immense revenues
which he derives from his oWncrsh.p
OF the land on which the modern C.S
OF Cardiff is built. A hundred years
ago Cardiff had sunk TO n population
| OF barely 1000. To-day it has pop.
ulation OF nearly half million. AMI
most OF the land on which the re"
city is built and all the vast docks are
| the property of Lord Butte, who also
controls the railroads leading in an'
out OF Cardiff. 1t is not only the
mines, but also the railroads th't ara
to be nationalized, and If the MARQUIS
| loses his railroad interests, his m'i.0E
| royalties and rights as a ground ldn'-
| lord OF Cardiff he will ne reduced -
relative poverty.
The Earl of Dudley.
Little sympathy will be entertained
| for the Earl of Dudley. whose entire
income may be said to have been de-
rived from mining royalties and rom
mines which he operates himself For
! he has displayed selfish disregard ar
| the interests Of others, which has e\'
| cited the utmost popular ros'nin''I
| and which has been frequently p'
| forward as an imperative CaN ''r wv.
| new mining legislation. Nearly ~
years ago Lord Dudlcys ancestors
disposed OF the various surface prop
! erty of various immortal estates ,.
| South Staffordshire and i'm A''''
! Worcestershire, but retained The Ih.N'
eral rights.
The present Earl has taken a.Han-
| tage OF these rights 10 undertake no
working of tho extensive coal drro'.s
! found beneath the surface of tho PROV
critics in question. He has done
| without any regard for the Sot"'F "a.
the large and prosperous towns ''
| Quarry Bank, Pensnctt, Rr". .n''''
Briefly Hill, &c. which haN" been
/ built thereon, with the result 'nA'
these towns have within the last -"
years been reduced TO wrech anD ~
ruin, through the subs idenvo .I 'N7
! soil Not only did the Earl re- ISe |"
| go to the expense OF prec1a''"h"'a
underground structures 10 prev NJ S-."
subsistence, but he even dcmD. a'E
pecuniary responsibility FOR H.. '"5'.
suffered by the towns In question "'.
by the house and property oNa'''
there, his contention being Hp."'n "
the courts 10y virtue Of his 1.e'e''
immortal rights to the minerals oe-
meath the surface gt the rano''
which had long SINCE passed t'i ous
purchase out of the possess on ~ H''
family.