Q. When a London Landlord destroys at one blow the value of a Tradesman’s good-will, by refusing him a lease, and drives him to emigrate by exacting a “starvation-rent,” what does he call the result to the Tenant?
A. A happy re-lease.
Q. What is the theoretical foundation on which Ducal Landlords build their claim to rack-rent all occupiers who “hold of” them?
A. That it is entirely owing to their own careful attention and unremitting exertions that the soil of London is now of any value whatever.
Q. And of what material is that foundation largely composed?
A. Portland Cement.
Q. What would the Ducal monopoly of land and houses in the best situations in London be called in Chicago?
A. A “corner in rents.”
Q. And what would be an appropriate name for the victim of this monopoly?
A. A Ground-Tenant.