Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-07-04
CUNTtNy'EEt; THE ROAST.


From Gail iiamilon's Letter 1T y. y Trihnne
The Whole history of the Montana finn
;. Der question shows that Mr.. Blaine AM
ir. Teller were not abusive but accUrat
when they said that Mr.. Sc!irllZ in that &c
tlon ti'9i Was not practical man OF business
applying to oar country the land laws o
Prussia and not of the United States: an,
that he was apparently ignorant of the dit
, ference between the country Of his brit
and the country OF his adoption At tia
very moment there WAS pending before tn,
, Senate Committee on Publ Lands 4 bill
prepared Under Mr. Schurz's direction
having in view the direct Introduction o
Prussian land laws into this country.
Yet perhaps speak too positively here
| have not myself been able TO get acees.
to the land laws of Prussia. except rs they
lie buried in dreadful tones, IN German
lHn@la@9. on hopeless shelves: and | be
licyc had rather tell lie tllan under;ak,
to eX!!une them and translate them, Bu
one need only travel aS far tow, ard & lie Il,
the Falt-Way hoase Of hearsay evidence
for | am assured by gentlemen who llay,
been iii Germany, and are acquainted Wit
} German laws and usa@es. chat slndry pro
visions in this remarkable bill are familiar
~ known in tie fore that border I'll,
Oder. t,lo Wescr and the Nistula. OF NY
own unlssistcd reason, only know that
they are not American. The bill wc,ilU
create offices hitherto unknown to the Re
pubic. and its very nomenclature is alien
ana royal. 1t Is Senate Bill No. 600. pro
vidin@ for the disposition of the public tim
Der AMI ,nbere'l Lands of the United
StatcS,o to which should be added as a
subtitle, "proyidin" also for the disposi-
ton OF Mr. Carl ScllUrz as q practical
/ American statcsnlan.n 1t is a bill of six
teen sections containing nine octave PAGES.
and is calculated to send a thrill OF romance
through al the imaginative young braves
of tie Interior Department.
Mr.. S.'iirz SETS oat upon his kni~illiy
quest by declaring in the first section OF
his bill, that .no timber-bearing lands
shall be sold Of disposed of in
: anv manner whatever. but shall be held by
/ the Government vita view 10 preventing
waste and destruction by fire, or by any
Other cause. and for the gradual sale there
'roui Of fonly slcil trees rs are most v;;lua-
DIE Is timber or toi lumber
! Having thus with one white arm sweep
gathered in al tlla timber lands of the Uni
ted ,StatCS-;i trife of several hundr'1 mil
Hons OF acres-aa area many times as lar@e
rs New England and New York combined
-Nr. Schlrz next turns mis- attention TO
regulations tor governing them. And hero
is ric!sntSS-t0reign richness. evidently.
rather than our Sorlil American .ype. For
Mr. SchlZ provides in section 3 ''Tlat for
the purpose of carrying into effect the pro-
visions OF this net the office of Forester is
hereby crcatcd."
Mr.. Teller treats this hill with q lcvity
which the pulpit cannot too severely con-
denim. Docs not Mr. Teller know that a
"forester' is a royal appendage, not to be
lightly spoken Of: WebSter'S Unabridged
defines Forester. ''In England an officer
appointed to watch a forest. preserve the
| game. and institute suit for treSpass."
Worcester gives his shy at him rs AN
officer appointed 20 watch a forest or chase
and preserve tie came" Another. to the
.lanor born, outstrips our la@gard Demo-
crats end paints him full length as AN
Officer appended to ROYALTY f." the care
preservation and protection of royal parks.
ana the enforcement OF the game laws -
We have plenty OF sovereigns and plenty
of parks. What doth hind,T that we should
not also lay in a supply of Forcsters: Mr..
Schurz evidently thinks of ForesterS as the
was good good deal was belter-and
thus starts them ful-armcd and countless
from his fertile brain. For thus reads his
bill:
And the President of the United States
! (Which in this ease means, of course, the
Secretary OF the lnterior) is empowered to
appoint. and 18th the advice and consent
of the Senate, such number of Forestcrs.
at a compensation Of twenty-five hundred
dollars per annum each : as he
may deem necessary for the proper care,
custody. preservation and appraiscment of
the timber ON the public lands
Thus we have provided ourselves with
IN innuiHera5le multitude OF Gay gallants
Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck
and ALL perhaps Mr. Clarke might be in
duccd to take that chaplancy, and so aid
Mr. Scliurz in his noble effort at ''resisting
robbers Secretary Schurz has not vet
! prescribed their uniform, but no doubt it
will be Lincoln green,
with bow in hand for n Withstand
Their enemies, II need be-
/ He has. however, mapped out their du-
/ ties with Il bold stfGke--Nith 90 bold 4
stroke, indeed, that it would be utterly i'm
pc ssble for any single Forester to attend
] to more than tie area OF one good-sized
county OF twenty miles square. lie pro-
VICES in this extraordinary bill that 1T
| shall be the duty OF such Foresters to care
/ fully guard all timber on the public lands
against waste by trespass or by ire" True.
+ the Montana settlers had taken the matter
OF guarding against the fire into their own
hands, and with such success that the
lands have not only supplied them with all
the timber they wanted. but hold more
/ timber now than before the settlers came.
But this is the miserable, independent, self
reliant American way of doing things. and
leaves no loop-hole tor glory and Mr..
Schur:.
Chemical analysis discloses the fact that
amoag the many articles used as food there
are only two, wheat and mix, which con-
tain all the elements of the human body,
, and in the proper proportion. Other arti-
cles, sucl, as sugar. syrup, butter, and fat
! nf VI l;nal- arl. ,.hoNiu 1nnncoo,n a..