The landlords are receiving eight millions a year by way of royalties. What for? They never deposited the coal in the earth. It was not they who plan… - David Lloyd George

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The landlords are receiving eight millions a year by way of royalties. What for? They never deposited the coal in the earth. It was not they who planted these great granite rocks in Wales. Who laid the foundations of the mountains? Was it the landlord? And yet he, by some divine right, demands as his toll—for merely the right for men to risk their lives in hewing these rocks—eight millions a year.