s been formed in Germany at Berlin, of
which Dr. A. Theodor Stamm is president, having for its object the
transfer of land ownership from individuals to the State. A newspaper
at Berlin is devoted to its objects.

A few facts show how inevitable the conflict that is coming, while the
agricultural classes of all Europe are being driven by American
competition deeper and deeper into poverty and inability to pay rent,
which can never be again what it has been. The New York _Evening Post_
very justly says: "The truth is, we are witnessing in Ireland the
gradual disappearance of rent. The land is no longer able to support
anybody but the actual cultivator. To make this process peaceful, and
as far as possible harmless to all parties, ought to be the chief
concern of the Government." Landlordism in Great Britain has small
claims upon our sympathy, for the great body of the land is held by
titles which have no other basis than the robbery of old by military
power. According to John Bright, in England and Wales one hundred
persons own 4,000,000 acres; in Scotland twelve persons own 4,346,000
acres, and seventy persons own the half of Scotland; nine tenths of
all the land in Scotland belongs to 1,700 persons, the rest of the
population having only one tenth. In Ireland less than 800 persons own
half of all the land, and 330 persons own two thirds of all the land
in Scotland; 402 members of the House of Lords hold 14,240,912 acres,
with a rental of $56,865,637.

It is no wonder that the tenants of the Duke of Argyle have risen
against the police that enforce the landlord's claims, and that the
Welsh resistance against tithes has impoverished the Welsh clergy.

The Irish agitation has a just basis, which was well stated by the
Boston _Herald_ as follows:--

"The assertion has been frequently made that rents have increased more
in England than in Ireland; but one of the ablest English
statisticians, a man who can hardly be accused of partiality toward
Ireland, has recently pointed out that while in the forty years from
1842 to 1882 the rents in England increased on an average 15
percent, the rents in Ireland in the same period increased on an
average 20 per cent, and this, too, in a country where farming has
been carried on on a low scale of culture, where the landlord has done
practically nothing for his tenant, and where the results of the
harvest are more uncertain than in England. It is the constant desire
that the Irish l