Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1881 — What the Defeat of the Land Bill Will Do. [ARTICLE]

What the Defeat of the Land Bill Will Do.

New York "World. If the lords, by rejecting or mutilating the land bill, force a battle, the ligating will be short, sharp ana decisive, and the result never for a moment in doubt. They and the squires and the established church will stand alone. The radicals will not only muster every man of radical tendencies in the three but draw tens of thousands of recruits from the farmclass, which have hitherto been as loyal to Toryism as to beer and the : bible. They will sweep Ireland as with a "broom, the Orange yeomanry of Ulster, as well as the disaffected tenantry in the other three provinces. The fact is, American competition has made radicalism irrepressible. Farmers can not live against your exports ' under entail and primogeniture. They must have free trade in land or ten years hence they will. be >es extinct as the archives of Crecy. Under the present land laws estates are tied up in one family. Imprdyements are in many cases impossible; jointures have to be paid to a horde of heirs out of the annual rent: purchase and sale when permissible are hampered by costly lorms and processes; the occupier, in short, has to carry on his back the owner, the owner’s kin, the middle men aud agents, and unless* he can throw ofl his loaa and became his own landlord, it is manifestly impossible for him to face his transatlantic competitors. *