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pendence has been crushed out of our institutions, while 

 the spirit of monarchial despotism is gestating in the 

 organism of the national banking system. To-day, while 

 our government bears the form of a republic, it exercises 

 sovereign power as a despot, and the people are almost 

 powerless in the grasp of this relentless and unyielding 

 monster. The Bank of England dug the gulf between 

 the rich and poor of that realm, and the national banking 

 institutions are plowing deep and wide the chasm between 

 the "same classes in this country. The Bank of England 

 has impoverished the masses of the people of that once 

 happy land. 



"A time there was, ere England's grief began, 

 When every rood of ground maintained its man." 



But how is it now? 



Less than 200,000 men of England have an annual 

 income of $700,000,000. This money is wrung from the 

 poor toilers who can hardly keep soul and body together. 

 These 200,000 robbers stamp England as the richest coun- 

 try on the globe. In the whole United Kingdom eight 

 persons own more than 220,000 acres of land each. The 

 number of acres held by a few of the largest owners are as 

 follows: 



Duke of Sutherland . . . 1,358,425 acres. 

 Duke of Buccleugh . . . . 459,260 " 

 Sir James Matheson . . . 406,070 " 

 Earl of Breadalbaugh . . . 372,609 u 



Earl of Seafield 305,891 " 



Duke of Richmond . . . 286,407 " 



Earl of Fife 257,629 " 



Alexander Matheson . . . 220,433 " 



DukeofAthol 194,640 " 



Duke of Devonshire . . . 193,121 u 

 Duke of Northumberland . 185,515 " 

 Duke of Argyle 175,114 " 



