The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-08-29
The PATRIOT.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST %, 1899.

THURSDAY, AUGUST %, 1899.
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LAND. OFFICE MONEY.
The Receiver Of the Land office in this
place receives, in payment for land, gold
and silver, bills of the bank of the State
of Missouri and branches, Bank of Min
eral Point, wv. IT, Bank of the United
States, and bills of several of the New
York and Philadelphia Banks.
The above important item is taken
from the organ of the Administration par
ty III lllinois-the State Register--and
can of course be depended on for it's corr
rectness. We understand, further, that
the same description Of money is taken
for the payment Of Landin the Land Office
at Du Buque. In this District where
more land is advertised for sale than in
any other-the Settler is obliged to pro-
cure Missouri Bank paper or gold or sill
yer. This will have to be done at great
sacrifice; and, doubtless, on account of
the impossibility Of obtaining this species
of burlington Land Office Currency -
many of the settlers will be obliged to re-
linquish all hopes Of entering their claims
at the approaching sales. Why is it so?
To say the least of it, it is owing 10 par
tial policy on the part of the Government
or. of some Of the Government Officers.
And yet there are those among us who
continue to say that neither is to blame!
If the people were all blind idiots this
statement might be made with IMMUNITY;
but here it is made in the face of the intel
ligent sufferers themselves; and can these
apologists of governmental quibbling-
can even the incog. editor of the Gazette
suppose for moment that the people will
suffer themselves to be gulled by any such
statement. The special pleading and
sophistry contained in recent article in
the Gazette, headed Gland Office mo-
ney," which is full of this doctrine, will
not even convince the people that all is
right. And nothing will, so long as the
government attempts to s'make fish of one
and flesh of another" The facts are too
palpable-the Partially too glaring, to
expect the settlers of this Land District
BE they Administration men or other
wise-to be satisfied SO long as this poll
cy puts in jeopardy their little all.
We do not say that there is any Bul
play-any understanding between the
Land Office at this place and the Bank of
Missouri-any false professions towards
accommodating the settlers--but it does
certainly appear that the same RESPONSE
bility might be assumed, by the Receiver
here for the accommodation Of the people,
as has been assumed by other Receivers
in this Territory and in Illinois, unless
special instructions have been given to
forbid it.
We presume the stand we have taken
on this question will be attributed to our
hostility to the present Administration,
and in this way it will be attempted to
keep the discussion of the main subject
out of view. But we do not believe the
attention of the people can be diverted
from looking at facts which are so vitality
connected with their pecuniary interests.
Our only motive in relation to this matter
is to combat policy which is laying the
axe at the root of the fairest prospects Of
the people of this Territory;-we make
no loud professions of political or moral
orthodoxy-but we think we are DESTROYS
to do all we can to promote the welfare
of the people, and that our motives stand
high above all party considerations. We
shall, at any rate, continue to speak freely
on this subject, with the hope of leading
those who are thus grinding the faces"
Of the poor settler, to change their pres
ent policy SO far as to place the people of
this land district in an attitude in which
they can have as good an opportunity of
securing their rights as is allowed to those
in other places.
From the commencement of the first
publication of the Patriot until the pre-
sent time, we have been assailed by our
editorial opponents in this place with a
bitterness that seems intent on nothing
less than our humiliation. But during
all this, our establishment has been gain