Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-10-01

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A sensible man, if he owned q thousand
acres of land five hundred miles from
market, would MT ho'd it forever idle for
his sons, but would act the wiser part.
and give one-half of it to get road 10
market ear the other half, even if the
donated half would be utterly arcihilated;
but ell the more go when he knows that
the portion he saye away will be fos sale.
and that his sons Will have not oaly the
rich inheri! ance, made valuable by their
fathers wisdom, but also the opportunity
to purchase, for fair compensation, ad-
joining land, once worthless hut now rs
valuable a. their own. Without railroads
there are thousands of square miles of
rich lands in all the Territories, that will
be for ages unimprovel and unproductive,
bringing no purchase money or taxes into
the Government Treasury, while the sup
posei ''actual settler" is afing in the
Islum aud grog shops of eastern cities, en-
gagged IN the avocation of voting periodi
|cally for the statesmen whose wisdom
shuts him out of natures great garden of
the West. and that too, under the pretense
Iof preserving the aforesaid gardens for
his especial actual settlement
In this have not only looked at the
subject in the light of the interest Of &C.
tual settlers; have considered the nd :.
vantages to the Government and its tax
payers. by the donstion Of comparative
ly Insignificant portions of land for the
building of railroads, the Government at
once ere ltes q market 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 Ma.
tiOnal Treasury the products of mines
now inaccessible, but when reached are
sufficient TO pay the national debt, and
have enough left fol q ''spccie basis" for
ever. 1t is no excuse that mistakes have
been made in former subsidies, and tina
monopolics have been created. Let the
mistakes be avoided IN the future. and le,
wise legislation prevent mOnopOlies. The
fault has not been in the policy of subsi-
dies, but in the ignorance and corruption
of Congress; and the cry OF no more
subsidies is startel by the men, both in
and out of Congress, who secure these
monopolies for themselves; and then to!
prevent competition, intend to stifie all
efforts to build other roads, Even with
Ill the mistakes and extravagancies allow
ed in the subsidies granted by the Govern
ment TO the Union, Central and other Pa
citic railroads, the advantages to the Gov
ernment have been beyond calculation
No man can conceive OF the great wealth,
that has been added to the grand 'dupli-
cate nf the nation in the construction oil
these roads, 10 say nothing of the homes
and employment furnished TO the thou
sands of people who otherwise would
have been starving III the East. Let the
Government aid in the construction of
.hese highways TO wealth and happiness
Let emigration be encouraged. and justice
be done by granting to the people of the
Territories the right of representation; the
nalienable right to vote for their own ru
ers, both national and local. and then, in
Iced, as we'll as in song, will we boast of
A land of every land the pride,
Beloved by heaven DER all the world be-
side.