Conquest of the United States.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 176, 29 January 1896, Page 2

Conquest of the United States.

o- " Uitlander," writing to the Post, says it seems very ludicrous for the President of the United States to mention the Monroe Doctrine, when it is considered that no less than 80,000,000 acres of United States soil have been parted with to foreign landowners and speculators. He quotes figures from an article in a iecent number of the Journal of the Knights "of Labour, under the title " The Conquest of the United States" : — The Texas Land Union Syndicate (Baroness Bnrdett Coutts, Earl Cadogan, the Dukes of Beaufort, Hamilton, Rutland, &c.) own 3,000,000 acres in Texas; Sir Edward Reid, Duchess of Marlborongh, Lady Randolph Churchill, &c , own 2,000,000 acres in Florida ; Viscount Scully, 3,000,* 000 acres in various States ; Marquis of Dalhousie, Lord Cholinondelev, Ladies Cross, Gordon, and Biddulph," 2,000,000 acres in Mississippi ; Marquis of Tweeddale, 1,750,000 acres ; Philipps, Marshall and Co., London, 1,300,000; The Anglo-American Syndicate, 750,000 acres; Bryan H. Evans, London, 700,---000 acres ; Duke of Sutherland, 125,000 acres; British Land .Company, 320,000 acres in Kansas ; William Whalley, of .: Peterboro', 310,000 acres. A Dutch • syndicate owns 5,000,000 acres of graz- . ing land in the "Western State, and a f German syndicate 2,000,000 acres. m