As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.
Every time there's a dip in the market, we buy. If you don't buy the land right, it ain't going to work.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.