People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — Scully the Landlord. [ARTICLE]

Scully the Landlord.

Lord Scully, the Irish, nobleman. who owns from 80,000 to 100,000 acres of land in Illinois, more than 40,000 acres in Logan county, besides large holdings in Missouri. Kansas and other States, is becoming alarmed at our opposition to the alien ownership of land in this country. The “noble lord" has, therefore, pulled up stakes on the other side of the water, and has settled down in New York, where he is modeling a palace after those of

the old world. He has filed his declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States, but his foreign system of landlordism remains unchanged. His income from land rentals now aggregates half a million. Several attempts have been made to compel him to pay an income tax, but without avail. One case against him went so far as the Supreme court, where he won it. In 1876 a measure, aimed specially at him. was introduced into the legislature imposing a special tax on foreign and absentee holders of Illinois lands, but a cowardly legislature defeated it on the plea that it would drive foreign capital from the State. Besides the land owned by Scully in Logan county, he owns large tracts in Sangamon, Grundy and Woodford counties. He owns more than a whole county in Kansas, large portions of counties in Nebraska, broad slices of several Missouri counties, and sections in other States.—Progressive Farmer.