Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-08-03
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lUItICG lCCl COuluStAS sAssss 49, 80. fAs~
posed by them will entirely suppress
speculation in5thc public lands. Specu-
lations would become impracticable, af-
ter the adoption Of this system, for the
following reasons:
First The Spectator must be gull
lty Of subornation Of perjury, in pro-
curing the settler to swear falsely that
he enters the land for settlement and
cultivation by himself, when in facthe
enters It to sell to another. s..
Secondly. The actual settler would
be required te commit ff,e:.jjay, =
| ing theoath by which heenters the land.
Thirdly. The SPECTATOR must incur
the hazard Of punishment for subor-
nation Of perjury.
Fourthly. The settler would incur
the hazard Of punishment for the crime
Of perjury.
Filthy. No speculator would fur
lnish the money to enter the land on q
contract of sale by the settler, because
s,ch contract ;ycu!d not onsy be null
and void, but operate as a forfeiture OF
the title and purchase money to the Y.
nited States. No capitalist, therefore,
would incur the hazard as well as guilt
Of such an arrangement.
Sixthly. No settler under this law
would consent to be made the guilty in
strument Of an entry for speculation. II
lis against his interest, for, by consents
ing to make this entry for another, he
forever forfeits the valuable privilege
4 Of making another entry for himself.
Three years continuous actual settle-
ment and cultivation must precede the
emanation Of the patent and right to
sell. Consequently, il the entry were
made for theuse ofaspeculator, he must
have paid the settler, first, for incur
ring the guilt and hazard of perjury;
secondly, for FORGETTING the valuable
4 privilege Of ever entering tract for
himself; and, thirdly, for the loss Of
three years time in occupying the land
lof another; and then the capitalist must
have himself incurred the guilt and
hazard of subornation Of perjury, and
the risk of losing his money and land
by an entry in fraud Of the law.
Seventhly. AS the new States would
be deeply interested in arresting the
system Of speculation and monopoly,
THE provisions Of this law being in con
sonance with public opinion and public
interest, would be rigidly and faithful
lily executed. No capitalist would dare
attempt to procure single entry for
speculation in violation Of this law,
much less would he dream of the prac-
liability Of entering millions of acres
kry year by the employment Of thou
SAND bf settlers. The expcr,pc,- N, .-v.4l
las the guilt and hazard, would be. too
enormous. An entry for speculation
under the accumulated difficulties and
expenditures arising under the provi-
sions Of this law, would be loss, and
not speculation. When the specula-
tor would have paid the settler for in
curing the guilt and hazard ofperiury,
for FORGETTING the privilege Of entering
another section for himself, and for
three years occupancy Of the land, to-
Igether with the original entrance mo-
Ifncy to the Government and three years
interest, he could never sell the trac,
for cost and charges. To presume that
even any frequent attempts would be
made to violate the law, is to suppose
the great body Of settlers in the new
States to be corrupt and vicious, the
very reverse Of which is the fact.
| Under this system, then, lands being
entered or purchased from the Govern
Ement only for settlement and cultiva-
ton, the sales would be regulated by
the annual increase Of population in the
new States and Territories. The esti-
mate Of this probable increase for the
1 future, can best be asccrtained BY refer
ence to the past. The population Of
the new States and Territories Of the
4 Union erected out Of the public domain,
was, in 1900, only s., 65e, inlslo, Il
1 was 4lo, 057, in 1920, $3.50, 1894, and
4 IN 1880: i was 2 ags 81 .. nus, the
increase from 1900 to 1910, was $50.
425. or about 600 percent theincrease
from 1910 to 1920, S2O,277, or about
i 200 per cent; the increase from 1890
to 1880, l,I46,97S, or about lO3 pes
4 cent Thus, whilst the per centage 81
increase has diminished at every CEN
sus, the actual increase being on ! lar
A ger capital, has augmented at every G.