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Show LET US HAVE LAND' CRY PEASANTS TO NOBLEMEN BBVUjLA, Spain. Dec 4-sLet us M ba- . land ' Is the constant crTlf the mm Andaluslan peasant, repeated often as mm he vees his sons forced to emigrate. i mm l.ecaus. th- y aro unable to procure possession of a piece of ground to can tholr own This conaitlon arising from the fact that enormous tracts ( I not mm are In the hands Of noble families who ,. iiii to alios them to be made pro- ssb duetlve, Is the caue of the frequent fSB agitation amontr the peasant class mm Pascual Carrion, a lending agricul- mm lural engbaeer, In cillsac attention to M ihe misery among the peasants. sa - H no effort has been made by the gov- H erning class to remedy their condi- MM tion. He declares so to 100 Inhabitant-' mm could live on and supply their needs B from every square kilometer of land mm In vr..: isla. ifflclal figures how gfl that in the province of Sevllla there jm ,,. only s per kilometer, H Cordoba 37. In n 30: while Malaga and Cadiz are 72 per kilometer H The reason given for this meager bbJ population Is that In thep rovince of fSBBj S. llla 1 000 persons own more than BBBBJ half of the 1.750.000 acres, while in MM lh province of Cordoba CO per cent of t acreage, amounting to 1.950.000 Mm acres, is owned by only 900 persons. sbbb Most of these ownors are absentees, MM who rarely visit their properties. Ssnor Carrion calls for some such measure as was taken by England In MM similar circumstances in Ireland, gB where l be English government ad- vanced 200,000,000 during the year PBBBj from 1912 to 19:8 to allow tenant farmers to acquire lands from the big proprietors. 'H |