PAET FOURTH. 



AIDS AND OBSTACLES TO AGEICULTTJBE 

 ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



CHAPTEE XVHI. 



LAND MONOPOLY. 



&quot; The source of piiblic Becurity and social permanence Is the attachment of the freeholder to 

 his home. The State should seek to promote an intensive rather than an extensive agricult 

 ure. Prof. Thompson. 



MB. J. STUAET MILL S AXIOM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, AND ITS DISTEIBUTION LANDS 

 IN CALIFOBNIA PBOSPEBITY SHOWN BY THE PBOPOBTION OF FABMS TO POPULA 

 TION DISPOSITION OF STATE LANDS EFFECTS OF CONSOLIDATION OF LANDED 

 INTEEEST IN ENGLAND SPANISH AND MEXICAN DOMINATION MEXICAN GBANTS, 

 AND A DlSCEEDITABLE CHAPTEE OF HlSTOBY BOUNTY OF THE FEDKEAL GOVERN 

 MENT How THE STATE LANDS HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED DISCEEPANCY BE 

 TWEEN FEDEBAL AND STATE LAWS EASTEEN COLLEGE AND INDIAN SCEIP 

 SWAMP AND TIDE LANDS AGEICULTUEAL COLLEGE GEANT RAILEOAD GEANTS 

 CALIFOBNIA PEEEAGE, AND STATUS OF OUB LANDLOEDS DISCRIMINATION IN TAX 

 ATION REMEDIES. 



NOT one, but many questions of vital importance to the pub 

 lic welfare, are involved in an intelligent opinion of the true 

 relations of man and land. The interest which the whole 

 people and successive generations have in its division and 

 distribution, appears to justify peculiar legislation, inasmuch 

 as it belongs to no other kind of property. Mr. J. Stuart Mill 

 laid it down as a political axiom, that the &quot;land, the gift of 

 nature to all, cannot be considered property in the same abso 

 lute sense as that in which no one has any interest but our 

 selves.&quot; 



A recent American writer, Prof. Robert Ellis Thompson, in a 

 chapter on the national economy of land, says, that the duty 

 of the State extends to the improvement of the land and the 



