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all. in our won 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 of free institutions; that large estates are the parasites of republiccs 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 landloards is fairly amazing. inreland is to day groaning
beneath the yoke of oppression, and not many years will roll around before the american tenant, upon hs kness, will also look
up into the scowling face of his master and acknowledge his obedience. following are a few of americas foreign landlords, and
the amount of their holdings expressed in acres: an english syndicate, in texas the holland land company, new mexico sir
edward reid, and a syndicate in florida english syndicate, in mississippi marquyis of tweedale philips, marshal co london german
syndicate anglo american syndicate, mr. rogers president, london byron evans, of london, in mississippi duke of sutherland
british, land company, in kansas william whallay, m.p peterboro, england missouri land company, edinburgh, scotland robert
british land company, scotland lord dunmore benjamin newgas, liverpool lord longhtan, in florida lord
dunraven, in colorado english and company, in florida english, land company, in arkansas albert peel, m.p leicestershire,
england sir j.l.kay, england alexander grant, of londan, in kansas english syndicate (represented by closs bros.)
wisconsin ellerhauser, of halifax, nova scotia, in west virginia a scoteh syndicate, in florida boysen, danish, cousul, in
milwankee missouri land company, of edinburgh, scotland total comenting upon these startling figures, the new york (daily)
world, of the best informed papers of the time says: the land grabber is not a fungus of nineteenth century growth. he first
came among english speaking peoples over centuries ago. wherever his has found a standing place panperism and its sequence,
crime, have followed. in the british isles he is known as an acreocrat. since he has extended his operations from his native
country to our won free soil the land grabber should be examined under the microscope of history analytically, impartially,
and truthfully. the unnaturalized foreigner threatens us with other dangers than those which would be created by our
indigenous american land grabber. the british acreocrat who owns real estate in this country believes in the cancer of english
monarchy with its hideous annals of nearly a thousand years. he accepts the tradition of an hereditary house of lords, a body
composed of the effete and played out descendants of the most tyrannical and profligate rascals which europe ever produced,
and he will remain an english bluehood in every thought and action, which cannot fail to bring about in free america and on
his own acres here the same poverty stricken class of peasants as now curse great britain and ireland. english upper tendom is
represented in recent purchases of american soil by duke, marquis, earls, a baron, baronets and members of parliament. the
british duke wns acres; the marquis, acres; the earls acres; the baron, acres; the brace of baronets, acres; and the pair of
parliamentary politicians, acres. in the rest of the land purchased by our brand newimported lords of the soil, englands
governing acreocrats, are largely represented in their acres. much ignorance is affected in american society respecting the
hill shoddyocracy will wine and dine and today him, and perhaps for his title marry him to some sweet, pure and good
american girl, whose life he hereafter will be a purgatory to herself and a mutual misery to both. but the land held by the
foreigner in the united states is a mere bagatelle. he is odious not because he is a foreigner, but the land held by the
representative, on the land, of the odious land system of the old world, and on the other of those monarchical ideas which have
made the great body of the european people unwilling slaves, reducing them to the very verge of desperation and starvation.
archimedes explained, as illustrating the vast power of the fulcrum, that if he had a place to stand he could move him. the
foreign land shark is still in his infancy. we have an indigenous land shark whose maw is so capacious that the rapacity of his
appetite in no wise keeps pace with its lightning like digestion. congressman william steel holman, of indiana, of the purest
statesmen of these corrupt times, and of the most thoroughly informed men of the country upon the question of eminent
domain, and the bestowal of that domain upon corporation and syndicates, recently said, of ht floor of the house of
representatives, in the course of a discussion on the post office appropriation bill: is it just and proper to require the landgrant
railroads to transport your mails at per cent of the rates you pay to corporations whose railroads were built by private
capital i think it is. i think it liberal and more than liberal when the cost in publicc wealth is considered in the building of these
land grant railroads. i submit tables of the railroads built under the land grant system, compiled from official reports, and they

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