Landlords Quotes
Those landlords who had killed peasants were sometimes executed as prior to the Peasant Uprising, there was no law enforcement against landlords in rural areas like Hunan. In 1927 there was a Peasant Uprising in the Hunan Province of China. Young Mau went there and wrote a report. Many years later when Mao was a major revolutionary leader, the landlords were often executed and not just humiliated.
In 1927 there was a Peasant Uprising in the Hunan Province of China. Young Mau went there and wrote a report.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. Most revolutionaries seeking independence become so focused on their revolution that they begin to believe that independence will solve all problems. Connelly was one of the more sophisticated ones who realized that many of the economic problems of Ireland had nothing to do with independence or the lack thereof.
In Russia at the time, serfs were little better off than slaves. Not only did they have to obey their landlords in all things, but any who advocated disobedience on their part were beaten and sent to Siberia. Exile to the Siberian Gulags was not an invention of the Communists of the 20th century although they used that punishment in unprecedented numbers. It was used by the Czars and the Empress.
Muir was advocating extending the vote to male, non-land owners. He was convicted, sent to the Botany Bay prison colony in Australia, escaped to France, and his cause did later triumph.
The Diggers were a religious-economic movement that even today would be considered very radical. They advocated the right of the poor to go onto public lands and farm them—thus the name “Diggers.” Beyond their opposition to the private ownership of land to the exclusion of the poor, Winstanley and the Diggers promulgated another very modern doctrine: That the poor should take the responsibility and have the right to determinine how the society should provide for the poor. A version of this became one of the Mottos of the Poverty Program of 1964. See {616966}.
In Scotland, large land owners who controlled most of the land discovered that they could earn more money from putting sheep on their lands than they could from rents charged to tenant farmers and simply evicted most of the tenant farmers who had no where to go. New Zealand, as a result of McKensie’s efforts passed laws guaranteeing 999 year leases at reasonable prices to any who wanted to farm.
Meiji the Great. “Public Opinion” had the same meaning for the Japanese of this time as modern Western democracies perceive it with one exception. The public did not include all; it included only landlords— who owned land and had peasants on it. However, even asking them was an incredible step forward. The Emperor even sent formal written surveys to the landlords and in that sense, Japanese methodology of ascertaining public opinion was far ahead of the West. These reforms were opposed by the nobility and later the military, and by the 1930s there was no semblance of democracy left in Japan.
Zenzinov was often a critic of the Bolsheviks.
Millions of people were hungry. There was not enough wheat (they called it corn) to make up for the failed potatoes, and the aristocracy, the landlords, had a very high protective tariff to prevent American wheat from driving the prices down. The aristocrats would not budge on the “corn laws” so Victoria and her government appropriated funds to buy expensive English wheat to distribute to the needy. She also instituted some public employment so the unemployed would, as in the New Deal later, would work on public improvement. However, all administration went through the landlords who took large portions of the corn for the poor to pay themselves for the cost of distributing the corn to the needy. Then many landlords assigned the publicly paid workers to improvement projects on their own personal land. The Queen and Prince were furious and they began an effort that would repeal the Corn Laws and make England a free trading nation.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. Connolly was a socialist advocate as well as a republican. He was one of the first revolutionaries to understand that military occupation was only a part of forces that kept a nation subservient to another. However, attempts to break those economic ties have almost always led to economic ruination.
The Irish landlords were a craven and greedy lot. See {639225}.
Landlords would abuse tenant farmers {639644}, and then evict them from their home and farm when they could not pay the rack-rents. The Land League fought back. When a landlord evicted a tenant, they would “urge” all other farmers not to rent that farm. If they did, they might be identified and bad things might happen to their livestock or crops. Few would rent a farm where the previous tenant had been evicted after this “program”.
