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A TALE OF OUR COMING LANDLORDS.
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-nnm a contrast! i nave not needed
my umbrella onco since I came into Illi
nois. Ia Ixindon and Ireland it would
have been in constant demand. Yet the
fli-Mii of growing grain are in flue condi
tion. I think it must rain when we are
asleep, to keep the earth looking so fresh
and green."
We left the cars at the little station and
soon were riding over roads in the most
perfect condition. We called at one place
where there was quite a comfortable house
and barn.
"This is one of the farms I mentioned,"
said the agent.
While the duke and the agent were
walking about talking business, I inter
viewed an old man who had been cultivat
ing the corn.
"Sir," I asked, "can you tell me how
this land came to be in the market?"
"Yes, sir," said he, "tins was once my
home. I came here from Ohio when land
was cheap. I bought this hundred and
sixty acres of land, paid part down, and
gave a mortgage for the balance. I put on
improvements as fast as I could. I worked
my farm carefully, aud for a few years
everything went well. Then times lM'carue
hard, crops were not good, and what I
could sell brought a very low price. But
good crops or poor, good times or bad, the
interest on the mortgage kept growing all
the time. We began to live more careful
ly; wife would make one hundred dollars
do the work of three in living and cloth
ing. We kept less help and worked early
irid lae, but to no purpose. The time
came when the mortage was due, and the
interest had accumulated rutil it ate up
all there was over the morlij.a .re. Then
the place wis soid. Now, here I am a ten
ant where I hoped to be the owner."
"Where do you place the blame of your
unfortunate circumstance s?"
"The scarcity of money is the first cause.
That ma.-'.s hard times. 1 can raise just
.s much wheat to the acre when it brings
one dollar per bushel as when it brings 1U-
tv evnt s. Willi the dollar J can meet my
b'.ivatiom;. With half a dollar I must
raise twice as mum gram, or iau. the
price ol wneai i.i.tK-aies, i u.m.c 1 may
saf.lv sav, the rise an 1 fail of money. Low
prices make good times for ni !!' loaners
and bankers who are willing to secure
themselves by a mortgage on our real
estate, and help us by loaning money at the
moderate rates of from one, two. or even
throe per cent per mouth. If the men
whose only business is to deal in the cir
culating medium of the country are per
iiiiUei to morease or deer.-:j.? the quanti
ty as they pleas-?, they have the advantage
over t.;e Mooring aim producing classes.
When farmers are in
of books. I saw Emerson's pros works. ! should Buffer a little. They have bled the
Dickens stories, "Undo Tom's Cabin," i people long enough. Beside, the lands of
and a grxxl mauy other good friends in ! this country were intended for the many,
that little rough shanty. When we had ! not for the few. 1 would like to see the
taken the seats she had ouVred us, (twooll i man who owns the lands live on them and
wooden chairs, which, with a rough deal j use theiu himself, and not have the ower
table, complete! the inventory of tiia
household furniture,) the duke asked:
"Are yon Jiving on one of Lord Zanders'
farms?"
"Yes, sir," said the woman, "we rent
from his agent."
2 rT
The duke knocked fit the door and a wo
man about thirty opined it.
1. i-.iin ',;j!iev ail
the lime growing scarcer, there is no hope
but to sacrifice their homes for much less
than their real value. I-argc tracts of land
are being obtained by speculators in this
way, and held at moderate prices. This
tempts rich foreigners to invest large sums
of money here. They are willing to wait
for the time when they can realize good
profits on their investments, wl.iie in the
meantime they secure a good income by
leasing their lands to tenants."
You seem familiar with the important
topics of your country," I said.
'Yes, Fir," he replied, "I am a member
of the 'Farmer's Alliance Club'; that
keeps us posted on all that concerns us as
farmers."
"Then you are opposed to foreigners
coming here and buying lands?" I asked.
"I am. We have no lands for people
who only care to bleed us!" he said vehe
mently. "Any man that wants a homo
and will come here and live on the lands
he buys, I am ready to welcome."
You have large land monopolies amon?
your own people. I so id.
"We hove. I am sorry to say. lint our
nit to . houM 'ol. 'No American land mon-
r iotviga or uo.nesiie:
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so hf- sni.l to mo:
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ask-.
n ihe land'ord su''cr:.'
which of ins estates sh
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Prescriptions CroftiHy Companntied at all Hours.
Everything to Furnish Your House.
AT
I. PEARLMAN'S
(;reat MODEIiX-
.HOUSE FURNISHING EMPORIUM.
nc.
rs to -.v;:C'i ir.v
nvni nr was
had fallen i i
We p-ii.d out fi-i'iu t lie
f I h noi-y cii y in:o t'ne c
country. We saw lar'-
n;i La;ile laxily fee-ling
It viTl o:.lv take a
bri :). A
the night.
;n tl.- v :
rHavin"" uurchased the J. V. "Weckbach store room on south
Main 6trcet where I am now located can sell goods cheap
er than the cheapest having just put in the largest stock
lof new goods ever brought to the city, (jrasoline stoves
land furniture of all kinds sold on the installment plan.
I. PEARLMAN.
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S7
JTHE positive cure, j
.001 - c:4Viuciw. i-
-'.ntle
Kvtry-
:r:n sun
! r.;-:z and
dm. cool
herds of
in great
p.! -.! res. under thy rwn: !e of o;.k. eini and
r'.-ijde tiLcs. V"e pas.-ed throtirli a country
thai lay before us like au Lii;in;-n--.i man
marked .o.f by diiftrent shades of green,
T:ist cnr;i llel'ts v. i'h rhe:r deep rich green,
".. i.;it .'le'u's shade. 1 1y a bright
tint. On. on wo sped, p.-u-r. Lti-ge farm
5i - snrronndeil by orciiaul- fn.i of
growing fruit, ure.it red aims tiiat told of
c-i!-e an i comfort, towering wind nulls
that cot.id rival the imaginary giants of
D'.n ijuixo'e, full corn ci-ibs laden with
the g.duen ears, past, villages I'uli of busi-ne-s,
line chualic-s, large school houses,
coxy dwellings and substantial stores.
Commerce, culture, society and religion
were all provided for in response to the
needs and industry of man.
Then came a change little rough shan
ties, straw barns, raid rail cribs without
corn.
We entered a lit lie tumble-down village
without church or schooldiou -e. There,
the conductor told us, was tho place our
tickets called for.
"Are we still in America " I asked.
"This seems more like Ireland aud a ten
ant village."
"It is a tenant village," said the duke,
as we walked from the steps of the old,
rickety depot.
"Can it le that tenantry ha- been so
long in America as to have caused its
loathsome form to cover this fair land:-"
"Now, Waverlaud, I did not come to
hear you preach. I came to tee the chan
ces of success with American tenants,"
said the duke, as we crossed to a little,
low, wooden shanty with one window, a
door and a hole in the roof for the stove
pipe to pass through. The duke knocked
at the door and a woman about thirty
opened it. I was surprised at the neat ap
pearance of the interior of the cabin. The
ceiling and the walls of the room Had been
papered with newspapers and looked clean.
The woman was bright, intelligent look
ing, and neat in a simple gown. She had
been washing and a little boy was putting
cobs, picked from the pig pen, into the
stove to make the kettle boil. A bed in
one corner of the room looked neat and
clean. There were thriv four shelves,
made by a running cord through small
holes in each side of the boards and held
"I Jo you make a comfortable living?" I
asked.
"Xot very comfortable, though we never
sui'Ter," said the woman, with a peculiar
look in her dark eyes. "If we could choose
our own time for selling our grain we
could do belter. There comes my hus
band," she sai l, "lie can tell you better
than I about the place."
A large, line locking man drove near the
shanty with a team and cultivator. We
bade the woman go.d-day and went to in
terview the farmer himself.
"Have yon been on this pl-;ce loa'i:'"
asked the duke, after a few words of in
troduction. ".Six years," sr. id the m:m, "and I am as
poor t i-ilny as when I came here."
"Why do you .stay here then, when lands
are so cheap out west?"
"You must know it costs a good deal to
get a start even if lands are cheap. I had
a brother who went west. He made him
self a good farm with good comfortable
buildings. lie had quite a start and was
proud and happy in his new home, that he
had made from the wild prairie of the
west. But he had taken lands that were
afterward gobbled up by the railroad com
pany, lie lost all he had and came back
here to rent. I keep hoping that by work
ing a tittle earlier, a little later and a little
harder, that I can get a start here. There
is neighbor Jones who has the same num
ber of acres that I work." said the man,
pointing across the road to where a neat
little frame house stood, shaded by tall
maple and eottonwood trees. "He is mak
ing money every year, and has some com
forts for his fi&iiily besides. He is all the
time making improvements. He has a
nice young orchard, grape vines and small
fruits that add to the comfort and value of
his place. I came here the same year that
he bought there. I work just as hard as
he does, but I can only raise enough to pay
the taxes and the rent, and have a little to
live on."
"Then you pay the taxes," said the
duke.
"Yes, sir," said the man." "I have the
taxes to pay, though they are not half as
high as Jones's are. Lord Sanders is rich
and knows better than to improve his
lands, and then we cannot even have a de
cent school to send our children to, be
cause the agent will not permit us to vote
as we p!':is?. Oh, he's a shrewd one, is
That LiO.-.l Sanders, lie knows he cau
just as much rent for that old shanty with
a few p ',$ an 1 a sfranr ?T '?ic for ;i barn,
to grind the life out of the uiifwrtunate
man who lias not been blessed with rich
relations, fat ollices or lucky opport unities,
by which he can buy or steal titles to lands
that Jol made free as the air we breathe, :
for all to enjoy and use, not to iuoiiopoli.e
and abuse." ;
"Then you would make null and void aU
titles 1 1 lands?" asked the duke.
"As a means of wealth and siM-culation I
would, but not as a means of life. I be
lieve laws should be made, by which titles
to lands would be granted for use and oc
cupation only. And that all taxes should
be levied on land values, but nothing on
improvements. Why, as it is now, there
is a premium offered to the man who can
hold the most land and make the least, im
provements. As it is now, if you build a
house you are taxed for it. If you plant a
tree or shrub, or do anything to add beau
ty to your home, you must pay for the lux
ury in additional taxes. rds Sanders
knows how that is. He will not even put
a coat of paint on that old shanty or nig a
well for fear of his taxes being heavier."
"Are there many of your opinion in this
settlement:'" asked the duke.
"Yes, sir, nearly all the tenants and
farmers generally believe as I do. Hut we
tenants are not free to vote as we please.
We must follow an unprincipled agent
and vote with him or be evicted. Talk
about freedom and progress: We aro not
free, but we belong to a class of serfs and
slaves. We are slaves of the foreign land
lord all because he has been allowed to in
vest his weal! h in American soil. Hut it
will not always be so," said the man with
warmth. "Tiit.se I'urcign landlords," he
coniiiiucii, i in iik liiey are l wing an ass,
but they may yet find the beast to be an
enraged tigress instead. They cannot bind
us body and soul forever. The l-'arin-u-s
Alliance t lnbs ; t.:: meet in jilm.-isl cverv
'.e.miy in (a: swi
.-'.'.ties are put 1 p:g
he I'N aiii! new ':.
-.v.'iich in-f;-v us . I:h
on I v n : 'em on " t n-n
)in this g,v.ii land i:
the !..: ;' ::i landl-irds.
goo I reading into tin
a. i.l in
" I.'.-. tig!
. i u i o
new .
the t'nited
ns into our
i air hearts,
pes. if we.
! s we will yet crush
ion i-iy and defeat
The Alliance semis
tenants' homes and
as t
mu j.i
his tv.
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and corn.
!! what ;
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wi.e it
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con! I eho -
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i thj nun.
1: we did hist vo.
c'dMren will learn that the greatest crime
of thj nineteenth eenlurv is this alien
landlordism! 1 nay Uo.1 bless the Farm
er s Alliance! And may he send us wise
law-giver-; so that just laws shall be enact
ed and fairly administered and human
equably enjoyed. We want a government
of liie people, by the people and for the
people!' Then we can defeat tyranny at
home and abroad.
"We have no need to import landlords!
They are of no more use to us than a pack
of wolves in a flock of sheep. They pro
duce nothing. They do not even spend
the money they obtain from us in this
country, but it goes to England or some
other foreign nation. Why, Lord Sanders
makes his boast that he receives from his
tenants in America two hundred thousand
dollars every year. Good day, gentlemen,
I must goon with my work," said the
man, starting for the flelI with his team
and cultivator.
We visited five other tenant families
that were living on Lord Sanders' estate.
One was an Irishman, When the duke
asked him if he liked living in America,
he saitl:
"Oeh, and it's bod luck to me that I iver
came to America at all! for I am under
the self-same old master as I was in Ire
land! woe be to him! He evicted me
there!"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Lord Sanders ha 1 hundreds of us
turned out at once, like pigs in a stye; ye
see he wanted the land for cattle. IJut we
made him sick of it, and he sold his land
there and bought here. Bad luck to him!
And I'm one of his tenants again. I left
to get
ma't'i p."?
"Ar-j
ro raisa
u both
i the troublj?" aiked the
, T can t d!1 you the trouble
o hi? o vn t :i:i's fjr ::!' in;:
!! re .':;?! v.? d dollar
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a'
Ho
his
per
evil and t '.-.'.'"l ' y-u v j cants
.:'!: Ih :It.) :.!! when
ij.;-;;ei tor my
COW. Ol th 3
nar-In for frea-.-:'..:
1 unde an
: 11 . -,i j, bill
;e terms
:-lt
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. .-n cc:u s i-.--1-3
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lit:! i:in
11'-.. , t i'i ; i i I. .'! j-.L t i -
of "fid us'jd to be in slavery time
'Ijai. yuu aeed not. stay here it'
do not suit you." remarked t'ie t'
"Tl.-ii's true. But here I have
my wife and :..'l-I are quit. ctnu:''.1ri.ibie.
If I should leave here I might do even
worse. Some of the tenants on Lord San
ders' estate have a terrP.ij struggle to get
along. One day List winter when the
thermometer was twenty degrees below
zero, I went to a tenant's house, and there
they were boiling whole corn to keep them
from starving. Their tire was made of
roots dug from the earth ten miles distant
and brought home to burn to keep them
from freezing. Oh, I could tell you tales
of sufferings that would make your heart
ache. If there is any more suffering in
Ireland than right here on Iord Sanders'
estate, God pity them! Here in this beau
tiful country where everything grows in
abundance! I went round to the different
families and gathered up provisions to
keep one family from starving to death."
"What made the people so poor?" aiked
trie duke.
"Because they had to sell all they could
raise to pay the rent, that the greedy laud
lords may live in ease and luxury in some
foreign city, where he cannot see or hear
of the misery he causes. While the thrifty
fanners, like neighbor Jones, who have
their own homes, must pay their own law
ful taxes and a portion for my Lord San
ders beside."
"Why man how do you mate that out?"
asked the duke. "Your neighbor has im
proved his lands, while Lord Sanders has
not. that makes the difference."
"That is just where the injustice comes
In. If Lord Sanders had to pay taxes on
that naked land and not on the improve
ments, he would soon be willing to seU
some of his hundred thousand acres. But
while he can shirk out of the taxes and re
ceives a good rent, he will not sell any of
his broad fields, though offered live times
their real value."
"You are rather hard on the land
owner," said the duke. "If you could
carry your theory into practice you would
make a tine mess of the finances of your
country. H might benefit the small farm
ers, but it would be hartl on the landlords
who hold lartre estates."
would noon change our profits Into losses.
Yet it will 1h a long time before that will
come to pass. Only a few hav thought of
that yet, and the peopl" of t hi country
have to lo educated into any change-,"
ttaid the duke.
"As I understand If, from those I have
talked with, the object of the Farmers'
Alliance Club Is to educate the common
jM-ople on this very subject. The people, I
mean the masses are being fd united In the
one grand principle of equality. Tliere ar
unions, cliihsitud orders devoted entirely
to this subject. The people are a jxiwer in
thLs nation, when once thoroughly aroused.
And," I run tl tiued, "when men like these
tenant farmers groaning under the in
justice of unfair rents mid unjust taxen
finally baud together for mutual protection
and just laws, they will create a force that
eveu money cannot control!"
CJIAI'TKU XIV. DAKOTA,
Leaving Chicago we went northwest,
passing through Wisconsin, that grand
state so famous for cheese anil bnttr;
through Minnesota with its broad fields of
growing wheat, clear rivers ami bracing
air, into Dakota, the new, the great, the
grand; the giant of the northwest. Hera
little homes dot the prairies, giving evi
dence of growth. Here the hardy pioneers
come to taste the romance of taming nat
ure and to coax wealth and happiness
from the fertile soil. We passed over riv
ers whose waters were clear as crystal;
through villages full of enterprise ami
thrift.
"This seems a growing state," I said,
looking out fiver the expanse of country
thickly dottetl with cosy little homes.
"It is among the first," said the duke, in
answer to my question. "It claims a
greater number of postollices than anyone,
of the twenty three other states tind terri
tories, and pays more revenue into tha
posttillice depart meat t ban any one of tins
thirty-two of them. It has colleges, nor
mal schools and institutions em lowed by
the territory. Its educational fund, de
rived from lands donat"d by the general
government, promises to be (lie largest, be
longing to t he state. The otKei.il reports
show that there is less sickness in Dakota
than in any oliier slat" or territory in the
I'nion. Immense be. Is of coal a js-being
discovered in many parts of the ti vrilory.
Time was, they tell me, wleni all liieso
fertile plains belonged to what we knew in
our school flays as the Great Amerc.au
Desert. But not a. trace of I he descii re
mains fin any railroad nriu of to clay. I
remember picturing the suud tin the des
ert here, as playing the same pranks as in
the Great Sahara of Africa. J5nt imagine
that- great desert becoming a blooming
garden!"
"How much this looks like Illinois," I
said as we were riding along.
"Yes, Waverland, you will be surprised
to find that all prairie lands have some of
the same general features, at least I wan.
But you notice there is no low, Hat,
marshy land here. The surface of the
prairie, both upland and valley, is every
where undulating," saitl the duke, "while
the river courses, fringed with timlier,
afford a grateful relief from the monotony
of the prairies."
"Here we are at our destination," saitl
the duke, as the train came to a halt at a
little station where everything looked new.
Kven the business signs seemed to smell of
new paint.
We found comfortable rooms in a littlo
house occupied by the duke's agent. Tho
agent kept a provision store and pos!'flice.
His wife, a fair, intelligent woman, totjk
charge of the oliice and did her own house
keeping. She was a stout energei it; wo
man, kept t hings in order, g-i ve. us gotxl
meals, and the tenants their mail.
"Then this is your Ml Dorado," I said to
tho fluke, when, after a com fort .ibl ; din
ner, we st arte I oui to x:ni soi:i"'. bing of
this new
lixl.-'.ml and came to free Ante;
me a home!"
II very tenant w; visited was discontent
en ami eager for a change. But they did I I
not dure to leave for fear they would not
find another place as good. Hard as ii,
seemed end discontented as they were,
thiy all realizet I th it there were plenty or
other men waiting to get even a chance on
a place. Nearly i;ll were hopeful that
times would sometime be better, and that
thev c
selves,
might
bo lor.
e;-m;-et.-l
mv'det: !
tliscmira ;
we isite
us ch t.u
summer ;
f.-unilv. '
sLant;;:;;
liiipaiaU'f
! then m.a.m souithing f ir them
Som:.' even thought Tr:at a law
. m i l-;', whereby my lord -.vould
I to sell Li-, lands, and then they
i a to . e u purchn-v. Tliev
c siimu!ns of hope. Want and
'mem was vi-iL'!e in ee:y home
. The shanties ami cabins were
as jn.-si-ih"'. yet the one room.
:id wimer. mn-L hold th-j whoh;
'ic-or
ili.;.!;!
Wli.iOi.t I
few or
'ways ch'
.' were v,iii'.
in.-, i i' win;
an'.
i 1H-
:t(, r a ch
i nily i-xp
; -r or the :
siulo-r of
-.ii
tret
ft the little .-etllement.
who hail ;!i'
u n or-
show of
silll
hrnb
As v. e
Iv few farm
comfort i saitl:
"I see the same conditions here that we
have in Ireland, except that here we find
intelligent people who make an effort to
imnrove themselves with some hope of the
future."
"And," saitl the duke, "if the people are
forming into unions and clubs to work
against us. we will soon find ourselves as
the man said, in a den of tigers instead of
among a herd of asses."
"Do you believe the Irishman's story,
that he is working for the same landlord
here that he was under in Ireland?"
"It may be true. Ixrd Sanders once
owned the estate Sir Wren now owns in
Ireland."
"Why, was he the man Sir Wren told
me hail three hundred tenant farmers
evicted because he wanted to make the
whole estate into a tenant farm?"
"I presume he is the man," said the
duke.
"Well, he did not have a very pleasant
time of it. Sir Wren said that the enraged
tenants would drive off his stock as fast as
he could buy it in spite of all the dogs and
agents lie could procure."
"That was his reason for selling. He
told me he was very thankful for the
change; that putting his monej' into pro
perty in America hail added thousands of
dollars to his wealth. It was through his
good success that I was tempted to put so
much money into lands in the new West.
If the people hre beginning to think and
inquire it may not lie so safe trusting to
"ow-bnv force jfi!! b.-u-b wir-fei'ces to hold
these lands as we were thinking. In mak
ing my last purchases I have had that in
mind, and have been very careful in get-
ting bona Jide titles to the lauds 1 pur
chased. But here is another trouble that
may annoy us as the farmer said, if they
should establish a law to lew taxes on
mei- . an .inm-doni."
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swered lmighi.tg. " i '; i . e not si-i-.i any
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! bor'iii!-;- li e homes of
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your tenant-.?" I asl; !.
"Yes: they may look small to us, but to
the-,., n-ior le:-i:rs who have b -en cooped
up in crowded tenements it rivals even the
famous Ml iJ..r.ttlo. There ar families
here, with all their uncles, aunts and cou
sins, until the whole settlement seems one
family of kin folks. They are from the
north of Burope, w here they have been
trained to unquestionable obeelience and
ploelding industry."
"How much did it cost you to bring
them here?" I asked, as we were riding
from place to place on the estate.
"Seven dollars a head," he answered, as
though speaking of a herd of cattle.
"I see you have been in America long
enough to have learned some of her
shrewdness."
"How se?"
"You could never have brought people
here without sejme previous arrangement.
How did you manage it?"
"Very easily. You see I had bought
large tracts of lands from the railroad cfim
pany and they were under some obliga
tions to me. I asked for honest rates to
bring settlers in. At first I could not get
rates that would justify me in bringing
them. But after a great deal of consulta
tion, we arranged with different railways
and line of steamers, until the fare was
just seven dollars per head by the family."
"These buildings, how did j ou arrange
for them?"
"There again the railroads helped me. I
got rates fer everything. Kach house as it
stands cost me fifteen dollars. The tenants
built them, themselves."
"How will you ever get- your money
back?" I asked.
"Each man is hired by the year, until
the. land begins to produce t-omc-thing,
then they will rent. Whatever I pay for
building or living expenses Is kept from
he wanes."
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