ciety is organized robbery, and the savage state is
preferable. There is no appeal from this deduction. What avail the
triumphs of art, science and commerce, if the majority of mankind are
ground to powder to make those triumphs possible!

It is not the law of God, but the law of man, that produces these
herculean evils which constantly threaten the peace and safety of
society.

But the British land-owner, having enslaved the people of his own
island, has shackled the people of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, doomed
them and their posterity to be perpetual aliens in their native lands;
he has, upon the plea of conquest, the argument of the base assassin
and robber, reduced the people of India to a state worse than death;
and his iron grip has been placed upon the uncounted millions of
African soil; the Islands of the sea squirm in his grasp; the West
India Islands are his prostrate prey; while a portion of the vast
continent of America owns his sway and groans under his exactions.

But this is not all. In our own country the British land shark has
made his appearance. His vile clutch, which our forefathers unwrenched
in the strength of their Colonial greatness, has again been fastened
upon our throat. The following table will show the extent to which the
parasite has insinuated himself into our vital parts. Let the good
people of this country--who should know that monopoly in land is the
death note of free institutions; that large estates are the parasites
of republics and the death of small freeholders--let the people read
the following table with the closeness which its gravity should
inspire. The San Francisco _Daily Examiner_, a leading paper on the
Pacific coast says:

Besides the millions of acres belonging to railroad and
other corporations, the amount of land that is being
acquired by foreign capitalists and landlords is fairly
amazing. Ireland is to-day groaning beneath the yoke of
oppression, and not many years will roll around before the
American tenant, upon his knees, will also look up into the
scowling face of his master and acknowledge his obedience.
Following are a few of America's foreign landlords, and the
amount of their holdings expressed in acres:--

An English Syndicate, No. 3, in Texas 3,000,000
The Holland Land Company, New Mexico 4,500,000
Sir Edward Reid, and a syndicate in Florida