The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-09-27

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but shall be set apart for the homes 70
actual settlers, without money or price
/ save the trlfing fee for surv eying, etc.
; The Senate bill continues the Publi
7 Lands open to spectators and land
| mOnopOllsts, to sort out and secure tn,
r choice portions, and hold them out O
market until the hardy. toiling pionee
has improved the country, scattered
through it villages, churches and schoo
honses, and thus increased the value o
the unoccupied lands, and made a mar
ket for them at great profits to the
speculator. The baneful working O
this feature is seen at a glance 1t is
the same curse that is felt throughout
all the new States, and is retarding the
development of. every county in the
NOrthWest.-But the Democratic par
ty has determined that its evils shall
be continued on all the lands now in
market, land fastened upon all yet to be
surveyed.
l1Rights Of Married and Unmarried
Men.
The House bill permits any head of
a family, or single man 81 years of age
to select and settle upon quarter-sec.
ton of Public Land.
The Senate bill cuts off all unmar-
rled men, and confines the privilege to
the heads of families. The tendency
of the house bill is to induce the unem.
ployed single men, now subsisting on a
miserable living or wasting their lives
IN ldleness and dissipation, to go West
and, with the donated capital of 16OI
acres Of good land, commence a life of
industry and usefulness. If such re
fused the offer, the Government could
lose nothing by making it, if they &C
cepted, the arrangement would be ben>
eticial to all concerned.
Ill. The Rights of Eneigraqts.
The House bill allowed emigrant
foreigners, who have under oath de-
ciared their intentions to become Am
erican citizens, to enter a. quarter sec
ton Of land; and, after having resided |
omit for five years, and actually be- |
come citizen, they were to have such
land.
The Senate struck out this provision
aud conine the entry of land to ma
tive born and naturalized citizens. The
object Of this exclusion; of course, is
plain. AS few of the Irish emigrants
who are pretty much all democrats,
desire to occupy the lands. and as the
Germans and others who would take
up the land, are fast becoming Repub-
llcans, the Northern Democrats deem
ed it safe to adopt this rule, inasmuch
as It would also be concession to the
South.
". The Rights Of present Settlers.
The House bill permitted those who
have already pre.empted lands and
settled on them, to keep the same, on
the same terms as new settlers.
The Senate excluded such from the
benefits OF the bill, and compelled them
50 give up their improvements and goI
elsewhere and commence anew, or payI
the full 5000 to the government. The
hardship of this discrimination is seen
at a glance.
V. The Hibernate Sections Of Railroad
Grants.
The House bill provides that the al
ternate sections reserved to the Gov
eminent in railroad grants, now held
at double price, $3.50 per acre,) shall
be opened to Homestead entries in
quantities Of eighty acres to each set
tier
The Senate bill excludes the emf
grant from all use of those lands, and
reserves them for the benefit of the
Spectator and the man of means.
The result Of this policy is, that
with one half of the lands on the
line OF railroads in the hands Of specu-
laLors who got them through the gov.
eminent grants, and the other half re-
served for other spectators hereafter
to take them, the improvement of the |
whole is kept back, the roads not built,
and all parties suffer, save few land
grabbers.
The foregoing synopsis of the Re
publican Homestead measure, contras-
ted with the so called Homestead bill,
which the Democrats sought to impose
upon She people, connot fail to show
every man, who are the true friends of
this salutary measure for the benefit of
the poor laborin 2 classes.