Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 134, 15 April 1920 — Page 14

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FARM TENANTRY I SEEN AS FAST ; GROWING EVIL 'XSenry J. Alleaia-Saturday Evening jfcanqajt-ivvorjtijis won a program to relieve ns from the growing -menace of absentee landlordism in the agricultural sections. It is an alarmIn facr that in Kanw today land tenantry has grown to a point where more than 45 percent of all the s7ll of the state 13 tilled -by renters. am conscious of the fact that In comparison with other states thi3 is actually, a lower percent of absentee ownership -than exists generally in thi great agricultural states. In some of It he best firm districts of Illinois, IoYa, Ohio" and Indiana' the percentage runs, as high as 65 percent. In thg great " state of Oklahoma in less thn thirty-five1; year absentee landlordism has grown to nearly 60 percent. There is no danger more real than that which comes to a land whose tillable soil Is owned by speculators and, cultivated by renters. The founders of the old Roman coraaaSnwealth recognized tfce truth of this statement when they established the la that every - soldier must be a landowner, and for a man to be eligi bly to the army he must have property; To this end a redistribution of J and was made in order that the farms might be owned by the soldiers. The strength Which enabled France to : meet the repeated assaults ofjher enemies in the beginning jnopths of her four and a half years of ;life-and-deathu struggle was in the land-owning class. France, a great agricultural republic, possessed more than five million farmers who owned farms of their own. - French Soldiers Owned Land. Curing 1916 and 1917 Red socialism driven by the cleverest of German Xrqpaganda, rose and broke upon the land titles because more than 80 per cegt of the Frenchmen who tilled the land owned all or a portion of the land thy tilled. Jklore than 60 percent of thJ French soldiers owned land. It gaje to them always . the - realizing eease that they were fighting for their owji possessions. , When, you endow a man's love of 'country with the" added sense of his home, ownership you plant something In his heart that gives renewed strength and reality to his patriotism. H is a trite expression of thi truth that has often heen used that a Aan will fight for hla home-"When he wiQ ndt put up much of a struggle for Ills; boarding house. , There is, rapidly; growing up In the Unjted States an . unclassified peasantry known as renters, and they brijig deterioration to agriculture because they live a hand-to-mouth existence, add nothing ot the , scientifice value of their effort and reduce the general agricultural sfrength. Census fighres show that the average Invjestmejit in farm buildings, and farm-machinery on tenant operated "farms .is $7&. The average value of these Items on farms operated by owners is $2,i68. According to the 1915 Iowa state census farm machinery was valued at $60,000,000, and five years prior to ."that the United States census value4 ijt at $95,000,000. In five years, wiCh the rapid increase of farm tenantry, the value of Iowa farm implements and machinery had decreased $35000,000; and this in the face of the increased prices of farm machinery. State Aid for Small Farmer. the federal land bank helps the man 5 When better

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