Year: 1878

raugement, and there were different prices


according TO the time required. 1t thus


came to pass that from nation OF mobiles


and slaves, with an unproductive soil like


that OF Great Britain, Prussia rose In forty


or fifty years to be nation of freemen, j,
each man owning his own land, and "hav-
ing gun and q vote, which fierce Teu-


ton once told Frederick the Great he
considered to be the essential conditions of
State citizenship (loud and repeated cheer


iDg.) But some one will say, what right
have you to take the land from the nobles7
I auswer-The land does not belong to the
mobiles by the constitution of England,
originally they simply held from the
Grown, and were removable at the will of
the Grown (hear, hear.) If they failed to
use the land properly for the benefit of the
State they were sent about their business !;
but as to their right to evict people, such
right was not recognised by the ancient
constitution of Great Britain and Froude
tells us that the first case of eviction on
record which happened in the time of
Henry the Seventh, was resented by the
king, who Immediately ordered the noble
man iu question to restore the tenants to
their homes, as it was not consistent with
the honor and dignity of the king that any
man should be turned out of his house by
his feudal lord (loud cheers.) The noble
man did service in these days for his land,
and it is not now for the nobleman to as
sume that the land is his (hear, hear
William the Third, introducing the CONT
pounded with the mobiles of his day for
their feudal service, and accordingly, ON
condition that they should pay four shill-
ings in the pound upon their rental, he said
he would dispense with their feudal SER
vice. Now, if that law of William the
Third had been fully carried out, the mobiles
of to day, instead Of paying half million
of land tax, would be paying thirty mil
lions or forty millions, OF half of our entire
national revenue CHEERS Indeed, Will
liams, in his LAWS on Real Property"
declares that the first thing a student of
law must do is to get out of his mind that
land is property absolute, or property in
the sense of chattel for do you not see
the State taking possession of land and Civ
ing compensation to the ownerf The
public good is the supreme law (hear, hear.)
The Times some time ago told a noble earl,
who declared that he would shut up bis coal
mines and leave them to be worked by his
that the coal mines were not
given to him for such purposes, and it
would raise very ugly question if he at
tempted to do anything OF the kind. What
is to be said of


A LANDLORD WHO SHUTS UP TEE WOMB


OF NATURE,


and prevents that flow of wealth and hap
piness which must most assuredly be the
outcome of the Belgian, French, or of the
Prusslan land system (cheers,) Let
me here diepose of an ambiguity in refer
ence to large and email farms which has
led to considerable mieunderstand ding.
Card is frequently quoted as an authority
on the eide of large farms. Leslie gives
Caird's admission that what he meant W as
simply thia-that large farm will give q
larger return when the capitalist invests
than small one, If human life is left out


- d. n1k AA Ar,k tn. = .k-
that Belgian small farm will give much
larger return per acre than Scotch farm
will on higher farming principle. 1t is
the duty of Government not to consider
land as machine in which human beings
are of no consideration If so, 600 grasiers
held all Ireland and sheep and cattle were
its only produce, the sum per head which
supports five aud half millions of people,
and the consumption of which is necessary
to their very existence, might all be saved,
and the graZiers might be immensely rich,
but the output per acre would be very
much smaller than If Is or 16 millions of
people lived upon the soil according to the
Belgian method (cheers.) 1t is the duty of
q Government to consider, first of all, men.
Null said that "when the Government of
country fails TO make that country habita-
BILE to it's people, and to have the popula-
tiou increasing moderately, the Govern
ment of that country stands tried and con-
Oomnou kCuooESJ ueuy 8lI eLAtiSGiCS OI
wealth and prosperity that ignore man
(hear, hear.) When the English satraps in
Dublin Castle juggle with figures, as for
the last twenty years they have done, and
ignore the


ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE ANNU-


ALLY LOST TO IRELAND,


1 say that human animal being worth
about ElO0 per head as an animal, and
upon no higher argument, the decrease of
our population proves the decline of
wealth aud prosperity, (cheers Belgium
contains vastly more people to the eqnare
mile than even England, let alone ireland,
and there is no poverty in Belgium, whilst
one in every twenty Euglishmen is pau
per and poor working man (cheers.)
Now England is a richer country than
Belgium, but the rich are growing richer,
and the poor growing poorer in it, owing
to the fact that free trade ia land does not
exist (cheers Some will say, what pre-
vents free trade in land Professor Leslie
points out, Notwithstanding the establish
ment of the Encumbered Estates Court in