Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-09-25

road purposes the land is still for sale
and ready for the actual settler" ant
that if he should pay dollar an acr
more for it, that with o railroad h,
would not give an scre of the land fo
leagues of it without railroad. Thel
he is not compelled to buy the railroad
land at all, for the thousands of alter
nate sections still belonging to the Gov
ernment, will be for sale, which withou
the road to market, are as valueless ai
the desert of Sahara. And again, i
any Z" actual settler" desires it, he car
select still, as now, from the untold mil
lions of land unaffected by railroads o.
railroad grants. Men either expect
the "actual settler" is going to locate
on the plains hundreds and thousands
of miles from market, or that it is better
for the lands to lie forever fallow in the
sun, awaiting the advent of an imagin-
ary actual settler" than to use part oi
it to secure a market for all, and make
it possible for the "actual settler" to
occupy it. Why should not the Gov
ernment treat its lands and its actual
settlers" as father would treat bis
lands and his children? A sensible
man, il he owned thousand acres OF
land five hundred miles from market,
would not hold it forever idle for his
sons, but would act the wiser part, and
give one-half of it to get road to mar
ket near the other half, even if the
donated. half would be utterly annihi-
lated; but all the more SO when he
knows that the portion he gave away
will be for sale, and that his sons will
have not only the rich inheritance, made
valuable by their fathers wisdom, but
also the opportunity to purchase, for
fair compensation, adjoining land, once
worthless but now as valuable as their
own. Without railroads there are
thousands of square miles of rich lands
in all the Territories, that will be for
ages unimproved and unproductive,
bringing no purchase money or taxes
into the Government Treasury, while
the supposed " actual settler" is loaf
ing in the slum and grog shops of east
ern cities, engaged in the ayocation of
voting periodically for the statesman
whose wisdom shuts him out OF Natures
great garden of the West, and that too,
under the pretense of preserving the
aforesaid gardens for his especial "actu-
al settlement" In this 7 have not only
looked at the subject in the light Of the
interest of actual settlers. have con-
sidered the advantages to the Govern
ment and its taxpayers. By the dona-
tion of comparatively Insignificant por-
tions of land for the building ofrailroads,
the Government at once creates mar
ket for all her lands, opens up channels
for the development of resources that
add vastly to the general wealth, and
causes to flow toward the National
Treasury the products of mines now in
accessible, but when reached are suf6-
cient to pay the national debt, and
have enough left for o specie basis"
forever It is no excuse that mistakes
have been made in former subsidies,
and that monopolies have been created.
Let the mistakes be avoided in the fu-
ture, and let wise legislation prevent
monopolies. The fault has not been in
the policy of subsidies, but in the ig-
norance and corruption Of Congress;
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started by the men, both in and out of
Congress, who secure these monopolies
for themselves, and then to prevent
competition, intend to sti6e all effort to
build other roads. Even with all the
mistakes and extravagances allowed in
the subsidies granted by the Govern
ment to the Union, Central and other
Pacific railroads, the advantages to the
Government have been beyond calcu-
lation. No man can conceive of the
great wealth that has been added to
the grand " duplicate" of the nation in
the construction of these roads, to say
nothing of the homes and employments
furnished to the thousands of people
who otherwise would be starving in The
East Let the Government aid in the
construction of these highways to
wealth and happiness. Let emigration
be encouraged, and justice be done by
granting the people of the Territories
the right of representation; the inalien.
able right to vote for their own rulers
both National and local, and then in
deed, as well as in song, will we boast
| Of
A land of every land the pride,
Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside.
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