White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-18
whole country, whilst At lie sane sIns. through

the federal treasury with large payments from
the settlers upon the public lands rendered of
real yalue only BY their labor; and Thus from
increased exports, bringing back augmented i'm
ports, and soon largely increasing the revenues
of the government from that source alss.
Without asking anything new from Congress-
If Kansas can receive, on coming into the enior'
all the usual grants, and use Aeu iudieiOnsiy,
she cannot only speedily cover herselfWith net
work of railroads, hzs, by devoting all the rest
to purposes Of education, she would soon have
a complete system Of common schools, with nor
NAL schools, free academies, and great univer-
sity, in all of which tuition should be free to all
our people. In that University the mechanic
arts, with model workshops, and all the sciences
should be taught, and especially agriculture in
connection with model farm.
Although you ask nothing more in your .Ordi-
nance than has been already granted to tbs 9TH
er new States, yet in view of the sacrifice Of
life and property incurred by tse people of Kan
sas, in establishing here the great principles Of
State and popular sovereignty, and thus perpet-
uatins the Union, Congress. doubtless, win re-
gard with indulgeHt favor the new Safe sf Kan
sas, and viii welcome her into the Union with
joyful congratulations, and a most liberal policy
as to the public domain.
The full benefit of Chat great measure, the
graduation and reduction Of the price ofthe pub
he lands in favor only ofsettlsrs and cuItivaters,
so Ofton urged by me in the Senate and in the
Treasury Department, and finally adopted by
Congress, should also lie serurea in our Ordi-
nance. Hating witnessed in new States, the
deep injury inflicted upon them by large bodies
of their most fertile land being monopolized BY
spectators, suggest, in accordance with the
public policy ever advocated by mo, that our en-
tire land tEx, Under the Constitution, for the
next twenty years should be confined exclusive
iy TO unoccnpied land-Whether owned BY resi-
dents or non-residents-as one of the best means
Of guarding against a monopoly of our choice
lands by spectators. desire, in fact, to see our
convention exercise the whole constitutional
power Of State, to guard our rights and inter-
ests, and especially to protect the settlers and
cultiEatOrs against the monopoly Of our public
domain by spectators.
As regards the school lands of the new States,
the following views will be found in my reports
of the 9Th of December, Is47, and 9Th of De-
eember, 1913, as Secretary OF the Treasury Of
the United States:
1.-The Recommendation contained in nv last
report for the establishment of ports of entry in
Oregon, and the extension there of our revenue
laws, is again respectfully presented to the con-
sideration of Congress, together with donations
of farms to settlers and emigrants, and the grant
of school section in the centre of every quar-
ter of q township, which would bring the school,
hous0 within point rot exceeding mile and
halfin distance from the most remote inhabitant
of such quarter township"
And again:
a. My last report recommended the grant Of
one section of land for schools IN every town
ship in Oregon.
Congress, to some ex.
tent, adopted this recommendation, by granting
two school sections in each township, instead of
one, fer education in Oregon; but it is respect
fully suggested that even thus extended, the
grant is linadesuate in amount, whilst the To-
cation Is iHcoHs eI6rnt, and too remote for
school which all can attend. This subject Is |
again presented to the attention of Congress,
with the recommendation that it shall be exten- |
ded to California and New Mexico, and also to I
all the other new States and Territories contain
ing the public domain
Acting upon the first of these recommcnla-
lions, but not carrying them fully into effect,
Congress doubled the school section grants-an
advance upon the former system. But in nv
Judgment, the benefits intended will never be
fully realized until four school sections, instead
1f two, are granted in every township, locating
he school section in the centre of every quar-
Ter township; thus, by only doubling the school
sections, causing every section ef the public do
main in the new States TO adJoin school sec
lion, which would add immensely to the value
)f the public lands, Wills. at the same time af
ording an adequate fund not only for the es-
ablishment of Common Schools ia every town
hip, but Of High Schools, Normal Schools, and
rec Academies, which, together with the Eve
yer cent. fund, and University grant before re-
erred to, would place Kansas, in few years,
n point ofseience and education, in the front
ank Of the States Of the American Union and
# the world. This Is subject always regard
d BY me with intense interest, inAsmueh as my ,
highest hopes Of the perpetuity OF our Union {
md Of the continued success ef selfsovern- 5
nent, is based upon' the progressive education :
nd enlightenment of the peopl-; enabling t
HON fully to comprehend their own true inter =
SITS, the inealculabie advantages Of our Union, q
he exemption from the power Of demagogues, {
he control Of sectional passions and prejudice, a
he progress Of the arts and sciences, and aecu- a
nulation of knowledge, which is every day d
nOre and more becoming real power, and which =
ill advance so much the great interests of our '
Thole country. q
These noble grants for schools and education
a some orthe new States, have not produced ,
II the advantages designed, for want Of ade- i
uaie checks and guards against impyovident 4
egislation but trust that the convention by y
distinc, constitutional provision, win surround d
hese lands with such guarantees, legislative, il
xecutive, judicial and popular, as to require a
be combined action Of the whole under the an Z
hority of the Legislature in the administration L
T a fund 50 sacred. Ii
1t will be observed that these school sections 2
nd the i've per cent fund, or their equivalent, 81
ave ALWAYS been made good 10 the new States v