“When, through the law's intervention, the common people shall have lost their homes...

[The Magistrate]

3. None Of Them Goes To An Original Source, Sir

It is mostly a round-robin of wing-nuts citing fruit-cakes. Possible dates for first introduction of the piece into public circulation run from 1907 to 1924, the latter date being that of an article in the banker's magazine demonstrating no such thing was published by it in the 1890s.

The language question is not something you can dismiss in the manner you do. My interests lead me into reading a great deal of original writings from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The piece you present was not written by or for 'upper crust' types in the 1890s; it is something written by someone later who thinks this is what writing of that period would sound like....