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AN EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNISM, 
 
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 ITS RESULTS: 
 
 A LETTER TO 
 
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 THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL VF CARNARVON. 
 
 SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, 
 
 CN THE 
 
 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND LAND COMMISSION, 
 
 BY 
 
 JAMES F. MONTGOMERY. 
 
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 CHARLOTTETOWN : 
 
 BBBMNEB BROTHERS, PRINTERS 44 QUEEN STREEI 
 
 1875. 
 
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 AN EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNISM, 
 
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 ITS RESULTS: 
 
 LETTER 
 
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 THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CARMRVON. 
 
 SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, 
 
 ON THE 
 
 PIllNCE EDWARD ISLAND LAND COMMISSION, 
 
 BY 
 
 JAMES F. MONTGOMERY. 
 
 CHARLOTTETOWN: 
 
 BBEMNEB BROTHERS, PRINTERS, 44 QUEEN STREET. 
 
 1875. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The following letter has been printed for circulation, as the 
 subject of it is of great interest to a large number of proprietors 
 in this island, as well as to all owners of real property through- 
 out the Empire. 
 
 The Commission referred to in this letter consisted of the 
 Right Honorable Hugh C. E. Childers, the nominee of the 
 Dominion Government, John T. Jenkins, Esquire, M. P. P., 
 who was appointed by the Island government, and Robert G. 
 Haliburton, Esquire, the representative of the proprietors, who 
 in the more important cases, declined to join in the awards. 
 
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 THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND LAND COMMISSION. 
 
 To the Right Honorable 
 
 The Earl of' Carnarvon ^ 
 - ' Secretary of State for the Colonies. 
 
 My Lord: . 
 
 In 1874 your Lordship's attention was drawn to "The 
 Land Purchase Bill," which passed through the Legislature 
 here, and to hich your Lordship instructed Lord Duiferin 
 to refuse the Royal assent on the ground of its being a 
 violation of the rights of property. No one here, — not 
 even those who passed the Bill of 1875, — had the 
 slightest idea that it would receive Lord DufTerin's assent. 
 Our conviction that as long as we remained British sub- 
 jects we should be safe from anything like confiscatiou 
 of our estates, and the very pis oer and firm stand your 
 Lordship took last year, threw us completely oflf our 
 guard ; while the unprecedented haste with which this 
 act was assented to (several months before the rest of 
 the acts of the session received assent) was designed by 
 the Canadian authorities to deprive the land-owners of 
 this Island of the opportunity of appealing to her Ma- 
 jesty against an act which was even a greater outrage 
 on law and justice than that which your Lordship had 
 so strongly denounced in 1874. Even when a request 
 was made that we should be heard before Lord Dufferin's 
 
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 Privy Council by counsel, a hearing was denied to us. 
 Nor was this violation of all precedent, and of our 
 rights as British subjects the end of the extraordinary 
 excesses to which class legislation has been suflered to 
 go' in this case. The first intimation that the act had 
 received the royal assent, which was received by some 
 of the proprietors in Great Britain and in tnis Island, was 
 the announcement that Mr. Chiklers had left England as a 
 commissioner to dispose of their property. We were sud- 
 denly called upon to appear before an inquisitorial court, to 
 answer to any and every technical or other question that 
 could be raided from quit rents, escheat, fishery reserves, 
 etc. Ancient and, as we supposed, obsolete questions, 
 which, so far as the law of the land, and the good faith of 
 the Crown could settle them, were long ago disposed 
 of and buried, were dug up and brought into life. 
 Everything that could tell against us was utilized ; we were 
 even made to suff<ir for the folly of which the colonial 
 office was guilty more than a century ago, and whitH 
 your Lordship recently described ac the source of all 
 this trouble. One thing is clear: the prc-cint owners 
 of land here are perfectly innocent of any ofience. It 
 would be an insult to Her Majesty's Government to 
 assume that they share in the communistic views of some 
 of the radical section of the Liberal party, that proptrty 
 in land is a crime against society. Yet, this is the 
 very basis of this act of spoliation, and is "the head and 
 front of our ofiending." To own more than a ^nousand 
 acres of land is not tolerated by this act, nor can any 
 one own over 500 acres if it is held by tenants. 
 
 There is even reason to fear that the unfortunate pro- ; 
 prietor, under this act, not only loses the excese over the 
 
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 amount specified, but also every foot of his property, and 
 that he is liable to be deprived of his homestead, aud to 
 be turned out of house and home. 
 
 Your Lordship, as i landlord, must be aware that 
 tenants in England frequently pay on^-third of the proceeds 
 of their farms as rent, or 33|r per cent. Ours pay only 
 one-sixtieth of that amount, or a merely nominal rent 
 charge of from one-third to one-half of one per cent. 
 English land^owners give short leases; ours are nearly^ 
 all for 999 years.. English tenants are lestrictea from 
 assigiJng their leases. With us, leases can practically 
 be disposed of as easily as goods or chattels. Hundreds of 
 acres are kept idle and unproductive in England ; and 
 the working classes fare claiming, not without reason, 
 that they should not be driven out of England, because 
 red deer are more valued by English land-owners than 
 the yeomanry of ihe country. No one can pretend for 
 an instant to hint at . ch a charge against us. Not 
 an acre is kept idle. Any person wishing to rent 
 wild knd, can go from one end of the Island to the 
 other, and select whatever lot he prefers for his farm. 
 There may bo cases of oppression in Great Britain, as 
 respects Xhe owners and occupiers of land. Not a sol- 
 itary instance in the whole history of the Island has 
 been found of such hardship or oppression. The re- 
 sult of the system has been an amount of progress 
 and prosperity in this Island, unequalled in auy part 
 of British) America. The population of Ontario per 
 square mi\e is 17; here it is 44. The revenue per 
 head i)i Ontario is 4s. lOd. ; here it is £1 3s. 4d» 
 
 The secret, then, of this utterly uncalled for piece 
 of spoliation, is to be found in the fact that the Leg- 
 
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 islature is returned by, and avowedly represents the 
 tenantry; and that the cheapest mode of buying pol- 
 itical support is to preach a crusade against the rights 
 of property. 
 
 Even our forbearance and liberality have been turned 
 against us. In a time of scarcity, we accepted one 
 shilling. Island currency, with one-ninth added, in lieu 
 of one shilling sterling. An act was passed, declaring 
 that one shilling sterling should be valued at one shilling 
 Island currency with one-ninth added, a statute which con- 
 fiscated one-fourth of our property. Year after year, acts 
 of spoliation were passed in the Legislature, and the press 
 and the hustings wer§ devoted to creating an agitation 
 against us. From 1852 to the present, nearly 300 days 
 (or a working year) have been devoted "by the Legis- 
 lature to this favorite theme, while class legislation has 
 closed the courts against us, and made the collection of 'l 
 
 arrears as distasteful and as difficult as possible. 
 
 In 1860 several of us most unwisely agreed to the 
 proposal of the British Government that a Royal Com- 
 mission should settle the existing questions between 
 landlord and tenant. Its suggestions were carried out 
 ii 1864, and the Land Purchase Act of 1864 was passed, 
 by which we gave up many thousands of pounds of 
 arrears to buy peace, alid to settle forever all questions 
 or disputes as to our property. The present act is a 
 glaring violation of that compact. Once more our gene- 
 rosity has. been turned against us. Those proprietors 
 who refused to remit arrears, and who capitalized them 
 I by a proportionate increase of rent, have reaped the 
 
 i benefit by having their interest valued by the increased 
 
 reut. We, who relying on the good faith of the crown, 
 
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 remitted arrears, have not only lost .the amount of 
 them, but have also had our property depreciated by 
 our not having increased our rent which appears to 
 have been the basis of valuation. 
 
 Hitherto we have heard a good deal of the blessings 
 of the British Constitution. Such an outrage as that 
 from which we have suffered, had this country been 
 annexed to the United States, would have been an 
 impossibility under the American Constitution. The 
 present act is probably the first on record that has 
 made leniency on the part of a creditor a penal of- 
 fence, and iihat has recognized and rewarded dishonesty 
 on the part of the debtor. Our interest is to be valued 
 by what we have received for the past six years. If 
 we have been considerate and forbearing, we pay the 
 penalty. If we have exacted the uttermost farthing of 
 rent, we shall reap the reward. 
 
 After having, as we imagined, finally disposed of all the 
 obsolete questions of the past century by agreeing to 
 the land act of 1864, we have been summoned b.efore 
 a tribunal which is specially instructed to go into these 
 questions. The Royal Commission of 1860 have forcibly 
 characterized such an outrage. ''It could hardly be con- 
 ceived that, with such views as these, Her Majesty could 
 ever have intended to transfer to *the Local Government 
 a power, the exercise of which would have been in dero- 
 gation of the faith and honor of the Grown. '" 
 
 ^^ If it were possible that any country could be found, 
 where, after a century, the possession of property could be 
 disturbed for the non-performance of an absurd condition 
 in the original grants, * ^ * that country would cease to be 
 regarded among the civilized communities of the world.** 
 
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 My father, holding under a grant from the Crown, 
 and relying on the good faith of the British Govern- 
 ment, gave up a large sum of money due as arrears 
 of rent, in order to quiet his title. Having by the 
 present act been robbed of the price of that concession, 
 and deprived of my property, I respectfully submit that 
 the Home Government is in honour bound to reimburse 
 me, if not for my property which has been sacrificed, 
 at least for the large sum which was so fruitlessly sur- 
 rendered by my father in 1864. 
 
 No statesman who does not willingly shut his eyes to 
 "the signs of the times," can be blind to the fa3t that 
 landowners of P. E. Island are not the only persons who 
 are destined to suffer from this piece of .legislation. 
 The Irish Tenants Compensation Act was a fire-brand 
 cast among us that kindled an agitation which has re- 
 sulted in the present act of spoliation. The Land Pur- 
 chase Commission has acted in the same spirit in which 
 the Irish Encumbered Estate Act was carried out, — as if 
 a rackrent system and a starving tenantry existed here, 
 instead of the most prosperous body of yeomanry in the 
 world, with farms practically freehold ejtcept in being 
 subject to a nominal rent charge of 5d. to 9d. per acre. 
 An able ecclesiastic, whose thorough mastery of colo- 
 nial questions is not unknown to the Colonial Office, has 
 recently laid down a great truth, which, in connection 
 with this Land Purchase Act and the spoliation of our 
 property, may well afford materials for very serious re- 
 flection to the landowners and the privileged classes of 
 England, viz., that "wo one could have observed the 
 course of the last thirty years without being fully con" 
 vinced that the colonies are assimilating the Mother 
 
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 Qounfry to themselves, instead of the crAonies being 
 assimilated to the Mother Country.** 
 
 Imagine the result of Great Britain being "asfeimilated to 
 thfc colonies " in the matter of this Land" Commission, and 
 the same amount of JDi^tice being meted out to the land- 
 owners there, which has been doled out to us in this 
 country. Let us suppose the working-classes to have 
 secured the franchise, and the House of Commons to 
 have avowedly become their mouth-pieco, instead of repre- 
 senting the property and intelligence of the country. 
 Imagine politicians buying support by preaching, year 
 after year, a crusade against property and denouncing 
 all privileged classes, because millions of acres are kept, 
 , locked up, and red deer and grouse are pampered and 
 prized, while the bone and sinew of the country are driven 
 away to the uttermost ends of the earth for a home. Im- 
 agine such a commission authorized to confiscate all proper- 
 ties exceeding 1,000 acres, an J all estates of more than. 
 500 acres held by tenants. Imagine landowners being 
 even denied a hearing when they wish to urge objections 
 against the appointment of such a commission, and their 
 suddenly finding themselves summoned before an inquisi- 
 torial court, and forced to submit their titles, accounts, &c. , 
 to it, under a penalty of imprisonmeirt. Imagine the 
 value of estates being depreciated by the argument that, 
 as they have become valuable by labour, labour has 
 the best title to the land. 
 
 Communism, which has no ^villiation or excuse here, may 
 find many plausible pleas for confiscation in England. Un- 
 der these circumstances, Iwor respectfully urge that the 
 Crown should do nothing to countenance or justify this act 
 which may hereafter raise it into a precedent. But to do so 
 
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 in this case would be a grievous breach of good faith on 
 the part of the Crown. Your Lordship has traced the 
 origin of all these troubles to the bhmders ot the Colo- 
 nial Office a hundred years ago. The Royal Commissioa 
 in 1860 felt so strongly on the subject that they urged, 
 as some compensation to the people of the Island and to 
 the landowners, that the Imperial GovernmRut should 
 give a guarantee for £100,000 to buy out the estates of 
 the Prince Edward Island proprietors. The suggestion 
 was declined, and we were made the scapegoats. In 
 order to buy peace, we remitted thousands of pounds 
 of arrears, and agreed, for ten years, to sell our farms 
 at fifteen years purchase. The assent by Lord Dufferin 
 
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 to the present act, in spite of that compact, and with a 
 haste which was a violation of all precedent, has 
 thrown responsibilities on the Imperial Government 
 which, I feel assured, they will not again refuse to 
 recognize. 
 
 A pure technicality, of a most transparent character, 
 has been urged here as a bar to any claims on our part 
 against the Crov/n. Hitherto the Crown has been the 
 safety of British subjects throughout the world against 
 oppression, as unjust laws can be nullified by the refusal 
 of the Royal assent. It has been suddenly discovered 
 that by the British North American Act our local 
 statutes are subject to the approval of the Governor Gen- 
 eral, "in council," and that the addition of those words 
 has deprived us of the protection of the Crown, and Her 
 Majesty of her veto upon our acts, and ot her sovereignty 
 over us, which has practically been transferred to the Earl 
 of Dufferin. Such a technicality is as unfounded as it 
 is discreditable, and were Her Majesty's government to 
 
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 adopt it, the last end of Imperial rule in this Island 
 would even be worse than the first. 
 
 Such a construction of the act never was dreamed of 
 by the loyal people of the New Dominion. 
 
 If, however, there has been an oversight in that act, 
 it has been corrected I a lucky oversight in the present 
 act. While the appointment of a commissioner is clearly 
 vested in "the Governor General in council," there is 
 a provision in sections TI, V, and VII, for "the assent 
 of the Governor General," i. e. of Her Majesty's repre- 
 sentative. If the assent has been given by him "in 
 council," i. e. merely as the mouth-piece of the Canadian 
 Cabinet, and not as the Queen's representative, the assent 
 is invalid, and the proceedings under the act could be 
 annulled. I feel fully assured that Her Gracious Majestyi 
 ' even if such a technicality were at hand, would never 
 consent to avail herself of it, and to surrender her sov- 
 ereignty over the people of this Island, not as a con- 
 cession of freedom to colonists, but as a mode of evading 
 the obligations and responsibilities of the Crown. 
 
 Under these circumstances, I respectfully beg leave to 
 urge either that Her Majesty should refuse her assent 
 to this act, and should thereby annul all proceedings 
 under it, or else that the British government should 
 consider the subject of compensating the proprietors for 
 the loss of their arrears of rent in 1864, and the con- 
 fiscation of the property under the Land Purchase Act 
 of 1875. 
 
 I need not apologize to your Lordship for writing so 
 plainly and so strongly of this first attempt at com- 
 munism and its results, for I am persuaded that, as a 
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 fully awure of the facts of the oase, will most cordialFy" 
 eympathizo with my views. 
 
 I have the honor to be,- 
 My Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, 
 
 JAMES F. MONTGOMERY. 
 
 Chaulottetown, Prince Edwahd Island, 
 
 September 28tli, 1876. 
 
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 P. S. The following is an abstract of the awards 
 which so far have been made. The leasehold interest 
 jn many of our properties has been sold at from twenty 
 to forty dollars per acre, while the freehold interest of 
 the proprietor has been valued by the Commission at 
 an average of $1.63. 
 
 Name op 
 Proprietor. 
 
 Acres 
 Leased. 
 
 Acres 
 unleased 
 
 Total. 
 
 Price 
 
 AWARDED 
 
 Price 
 
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 Acre. 
 
 Wm. Cundall, . . 
 Miss Cundall, . . 
 Miss Sullivan, . . 
 R.B. Stewart. . . 
 Sir G. Moiitsromery, 
 Ponsonby Fane, . . 
 Jjord Melville, . ^ 
 J. F. Montgomery, . 
 Col. Cumberland . 
 Miss Fanning . . 
 
 2,844 
 
 1,455 
 
 44,387 
 
 38,018 
 
 5.G10 
 
 8,653 
 
 11.310 
 
 5.512 
 
 6,216 
 
 7,271 
 
 21,602 
 
 28,674 
 
 5,847 
 300 
 
 2.844 
 
 1.455 
 
 65.089 
 
 66.692 
 
 5.610 
 
 14.500 
 
 11,610 
 
 5.512 
 
 6,216 
 
 7,271 
 
 $ 9.200 
 4,450 
 81.500 
 76,500 
 12,400 
 21.200 
 34,000 
 15,200 
 31.900 
 20.200 
 
 $3.23 
 3.06 
 1.23 
 1.14 
 2.21 
 1.46 
 2.92 
 2.75 
 5.13 
 2.77 
 
 
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 56,423 
 
 187,699 
 
 #306,550 
 
 
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