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Show A LANDED ARISTOCRACY. The tendency of legislation, both State and national, baa b5en for years ' lo concentrate the landed property of ' tho country iu a comparatively few t hands. In fact centripetalism, as professor Fowler would probably term it, has been tho policy of the nation both in respect to power and property, a A reaction against this policy has re- c eently sot in, too late to rectify what v has been dono in respect to fostering ' j! land monopolies, but in time to prevent pre-vent tho future oontinuanec of the s sauio system. As an example of the L' great extent to which our land system, which we foolishly consider the perfec- p tion of human wisdom, permits the a concentration of tho public lands in a few hands, we copy an extract from I tho report of the State agricultural i ft society of California, premising, how- I ri ever that a part of the eril complained n of iQ that Btito is the result of the J tftate sytcui of disposing of lands do- natcd to it by an act of congress. The i: report says, in illustration of the ef- L fects of tho combined State aud na- U tional systems : j' But what is the position of the mil-ia lions of acres of uncultivated lands 'g throughout the State? Whv are they uncultivated and unnrodue'ive Is it 01 true that these lands are monopolized 1' by individuals and held in large bodies, : S ot but little protit to their owners, aud p: at such immeasurable disadvantages to the btatc hat are the fact.' By t reference to some statistics, eolleeted ti by the State board of f.pulia;uni for tl the illustration of another wo 1 p tind that iu the county of (.V!'i-a ' tt there were afsted in the war l7l, p to six different ownerships, llo.OIT ai acres of land; iu tfie couniy of Tehama, m to five different ownors!ii(s, -1,710 p acre?; iu the county of Hutte, to five tl ownerships t' 1. ,'; acrv.s iu the count v V Ot Monterey, oiu; ownerships, p. Il'i'.-Ho acre.-; in the wumv ot' Sa'i ai Luis Obispo, to eleven ownerships, li l.'l,L'o6 acres; in the county of Santa ti Barbara, to tiiiitcen owuerstiips, llw,-7o llw,-7o aeres; in the county of S.111 lie!-. to seven ownerships, l s, 7. -0 acres; in Kern ivumv, tannic owne rsiops, : 74J aetVs; in tVca cour.tv, i 1 sewn e-witerstiips L'-V'"-i a. re: "m i.-ivd i''H:i;;y, to seveuuvn "'A;:c:si:;ps, .Ml,- ;'' .'.'(' ai 1 e.-; and in San .! tinm count v, to th:;t,e;i oeriips. .:. : acre's. 11 1 has iu ei. en c. li!i::.--; o! ti.is State ' staiwie CAvhvreJ iy this Uurd not U1 with a view of showing the Iarce ow- a' ersliips of land, but t'r a;:-:!ier oh- l'' ;eet entirely, develop the aMoiii.-hia na tint hi' propnetorshifs own and o.mtroi acivs of land, or an ;" average! o4.ejL acres eah. This is ?': .J.M'-i.j.H acivs more lacd than the tK whole amount under cuhivat ion iu ! -7n when the a cultural product of the a ;ate nus vaJtitd at i'A"'".1 1. viie these possessions of these Kv W1 propiictorhipa into farms of U.n ai;rcs ' cacii, and they wouid maie o4.io7 .:" iarms. Let these farms be occupied Ue each by a family ot' Ore persons, and there would be added to our runi pop- i uution and pnodueing classes 17u,7o in persons, a It each one of these farms was cui- -c uvaced ind made to produce at the 1 same rate per acre that our land un-. un-. d-r eultivatiou in 1-7') did product?, . 'lie addni-juul vain-; tu our utninai an-. an-. ri-ultoi.ii prt.duei- w...uld b- i 1 -il , 1 (. I'Jlt, or v-'iy n.-arly this .-urn, a.i th- an: u! n.ad-; V, p;i,diii-e b'it v-:r iillli: tj tin: ,wu.;n. The report then .-a.'i;...-t., ...pulity o! tixatiwil --. the r- medy to compel th'. ptiration of th.j.-o large tracts o! land into .ituall fariij.j, the rule having ; horctLlore prevail.:! of a.-.-e--ing the.-. : land.s at a nr-miual value because of !iUe fa'-t th.v ilc-y w-re iot cultivated. It r-quirc-. no pr-j.jf to estabii-h tin fact, that, su'.'h a C'tnj'.-mrau.jn of iui I lu-m-e -i iai.iirici ' UiA in a i i-ulu .five monopoly uf owin-r.-hij, injure;' the Slate, and hence a wi.-e pubiii policy i... aiain,t hidaiion tending to that end. I 'tab may Icaiu a lc ';n in thi.i re.eet from California. We do not ojipo-e a land or oth r inuhopoli that i.s llie creation of individual oi a.s-ociated cil'ort, but we are oj'posed lo the creation of monopolies by tin. e fleet ol" laws enacted by cither the Mak or general government. "Ml fures the hmd, to hu-l nin- ills a prey, Wli.-ra wviililt uccitiJHiUUv, und men d-eay.1 |