The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-17

loan of 500; and SO on each month unit
the aggregate OF such losns shall reacl
$500. The whole to be repaid TO the gov
eminent in five annual irstalimenis, com
mencipg five years from the date of the
first loan Of Sl00. and bearing interest a
5 per cent per anHum; for which repay,
meDt the land is TO Be held as security.
Though sympathizIug most heartily with
the appeal OF my houOred friend from
Pennsylvania Mr.. Wright in behalf OF
! the unem ploysd wsge men OF the country, |
cannot vote: for this bill. 1t contains no
adequate safeguards sgainst frauds, or to
prevent its benefits being wholly obtained
By small class of our people now iiving
Oh the frontier And as 1t is now offered
under motion TO suspend the rules no OPP
portunity IL given to amend it. Were il TO
| become a law IA it stands the scamrs and
losiers who infest the new States equally
with the old ones would be the first TO rush
TO the land Office and make oath that they
selected homes.esds, and thereupon each
would pocket 500 of public money That
would be the last that would be heard of
them, nm 'ess they inside the circuit of the
land offices, making new affidavits of settle
ments and receiving new loans or unless
they obtsIGed further installments of loans
at the Office first applied to by means of
false Sthisvits Of EXPENDITURES in improve
ments. he land officers could have no
means OF knowing whether improvements
claimed were actually made on tracts stu |
ated perhaps one, two, or three hundred !
miles from their Offices, or Of discriminate |
ing between bona NE settlers and mere |
bummers a1d rspeatsrs.
There are probably two or three mil |
lions Of poor people scattered over our /
country who would like 70 make home |
stead settlements and avail themselves OF |
such government loan. IL would take |
from a thOgs and II fifteen hundred mil |
lions OF dollars 10 give each loan OF $500 |
from the Pd5lic treasury. Our condition
Of natiOnsl indebtedness and taxation |
makes so large loan utterly out of the |
question. Then why adopt a petty and |
partial measure Of relief 10 Be scrambled |
!0r with the certainty that the purpose OF 1
the l4w will he great ' abused. and thar |
not one ont Of & Thousand o. tEO.e who need |
the help can have any share Il the small 1
sum proposed to be appropriated ScSrceiF |
any bur men who are already ou the IRON
tier could Obtain sny part OF tH- $40 utJ
eco which would he tlken up before per
sons IN the older Stat-s could arrange their
af ,irs and move 20 the public lands Tor
settlement. Hardly msn among the dis
tres7ed populations of the manufacturing
States would get any advantage from l..
though tens Of thousands would be lUrsd
away after the Jack -Olantcrn only 10 be
plunged in a distress among strangers far
deepsr than that they now endure among
friend'
Besides, Mr. Speaker. ;his il not the way
10 give relief 70 the woTkiugmen who suffer
FROM the distressing and lon.-contiBUsd
pro-tratiUa of our business industries. We
do not want 10 entiCe mechanics, miners,
and f1rnace men from their eastern homes
TO the remote frontier without experience
or capacity 10 earn a living there by agri-
culture. The c1urt-y does not reed =
special stimulus to farming, which already
EMPLOYS it, tull proportion Of our poHuiS-
iicn, but il does need measures which will
allow our Industries generally TO revive
and prosper, giving fall employment end
good wages TO men in all the diversified
pursuits to which they are accustomed.
Our industries have been Frustrated by a
a series Of finance measures which have
broken down the prices Of labor and prop
erty ard robbed laboreFs Of steady en-
uloyment. Relief il to be he'd by re-
versiug this finance policy, by
fairly the burdens # govern
uenr between labor aud capiIal, by The I'M
limited Coinage of silver by abandoning
gold resumption and putting in free circula
lion our now boarded paper currency, thus
restoring the prices OF labor and commodI-
ties to an extent which ju-tice TO debtor and
creditor dem nds, and calling into active
employment all the industrial forces Of our
people. When that is done peoplewho row
suffer from want OF full employment or fair
wac.s can without aid from the general
gov. 'nment find field ard a recompense
for heir labor at the forge, in the mine, on
the seas or he plains, wherever they are
best fitted To perform thsir Psrls il the in
dust.ial development Of cur race.