ITEMS ON THE LAND QUESTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1516, 8 June 1886, Page 1

ITEMS ON THE LAND QUESTION.

The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof.—Psalm.

The earth is mine, saith the Lord.—

Leviticus, xxv., 23. You cannot put the land of any nation' in the hands of a few men, and not make despots over millions.—Beecher. The trouble is that a few in this country. , own all the real estate, and the vast * majority of citizens cannot afford to own their own homes. —Talmage.. The land of every country is the common property of the people of that country because the real owner, the Creator, who made both, had conferred it as a voluntary gift.—Bishop Nulty. The establishment of private ownership of land was the greatest wrong that was < ever done to mankind ; it was, in fact, a rascally act-of robbery, and the misery we see all round us will never cease so long as private ownership of land prevails, —Herbert Spencer. I think that any woman who has any margin of time or money to spare, should adopt some public interest, philanthropic undertaking, or some social agitation of reform, and give to that office whatever time and work she may be able to afford. —Francis Power Cobbe.

“By the sweat of your brow shall you-, earn your own bread.” We recognise the justice of this doom. \Ve should not escape this if we could. But in this doom it is written betewen the lines that no man’s brow shall sweat to earn bread for those who do not labor. No man shall be taxed to enrich his brother.—Hon. S. Cox,

I saw this rebellion was a war of the aristocrats against the poor ; a war of the landowner aud the laborer; that it was a struggle for the retention of power in the hands of the few against the many; and I found no conclusion to it, save in the subjugation of the few'and tbtLdisenthrallment of the many.—Benjamin F. Butler.

Fifty years ago a poor printer bought a lot in New York for a small sum. His heirs now get 2,000,000d61s for it. This is the outcome of the system of property in land. Labor has to pay the sum of y 2,000,000d01s for having held that lot and now to surrender it to other control.- 1 - Galveston News.

The Government of Russia may resolve to throw the people back into barbarism, refusing them the means and opportunities / ; of liberal culture, but in the long run - civilisation will avenge itself, and ~ths forces will be none the less destructive ig s the end because they have been deliberately turned into channels whose only outlet is revolution. —London Times;.. The monopoly of the land is th® ultimate basic fact which impels good or evil into the moral, mental, physical, industrial, political, and social condition of all nations and races. All history shows it to have been so in the past, and oo phantasmagoria or abstraction can, it seems, cast upon tho panoramic canvas ef the future, conditions in which it will continue to do so.—Buffalo Justice.

4. superabundance of food, clothing, &c., in regard to consumers, and at the same time a superabundance of consumers in regard to food and clothing, are suppositions, that naturally destroy each other. Or is starvation in the nndst of plenty an unavoidable occurrence ? Do tbe hungry deserve to be starved, and ought the farmer’s surplus products to rot at the sane time ? Is there ho cure for this malady ?—The Primer.