Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-06

vashburn has attic npted the most gigan-i
ic schere and piece of rascality that ever |
vas concocted or perpetrated an this |
country, and, to-day. in ccder TO carcG
t out. ne US seeking
% strike down tt o pre-emptior act AID
repeal it; and he introduced "a bill for
hat purpose and TO suspend the operatSo on
Of the honaeste: I'd law over millions of
acres of land III Minnesota end DAB .ota
territory. Whit was this scheme and
I'iANT1O sw1NDLE
VIII oh has bee perpetrated upon our peo-
pie? 1t is scheme to appropriate
the Indian lands 1t lis a scheme
to tconcent rate the Indians % the
Northwest, from ell their different
upon .Ene reservation and
to dispose of the hands of those reserva-
tions. These Chippewa -Indians are tim
Der Indi ans. They live in the woods.
Tksi1 lands are laEgely'covered with pine.
and it is the greatest body of valuable
pine that remains in this whole Northw est.
There is pine enough there to: furnish you
and your children building material for
ger srations. And / SAY to you, and /
think will convince. you that Mr.. Washburn
has attempted DO so frame legislation,
that limitable ring OF men can obtain
possession of al. those valuable pine lands.
4 ow do they dc it? Well, as I say, he pro-
poses to repeal the .pre-emption law. A
6 IAN, my frietfls, who puts his finger upon
the homestead law or the pre-emption Law
with hostile iatentstrikes blow at every
poor man aud every man of moderate Cir
.cumstances iE all this great country. You,
who toiling earn your dailywages with your
daily labor, what is your hope in the
future? Way, that some day you will &C
cumulate enough to go out thsg 8
and buy piece of the public land, there
to build you a house and have your fam
and raise your family.
These are the two. great laws upon which
the prosperity of this whole northwestern
country is resting. And, my friends, this
is the man you are, electing. and he against
one of the poorest and noblest men in this
state. refer to my distinguished and
horored friend General Sibley. Loud
applause. A man whose characteristics
endears him to every man in the state, but
yet you turn around and elect this nam
(Washburnl tc,congress and in return he
undertakes to strike down the presumption
act. Can any one deny this fact.
Can any deny, after reading this
bill of Me-. Washburn's, that this great
wrong was attempted by him. Is there
any friend of Mr.. Washburn's here who
will say that he did not introduce bill to
repeal the presumption act? What was
this greet wrong attempted for?
Why, it was part of this
TREMENDOUS SCHEME,
and my friends, when DR.. Ames charged
upon him that the bill for the sale of these
lands was so framed that one or a half
dozen of men could obtain the whole of
them, Mr.. Washburn came out in a speech
and vigorously denied it, point blank. His
newspaper in Minneapolis, the Minneapo-
lis Evening Journal, came out in an redito-
rial and quoted a passage from the law
which said that the land should be sold in
tracts of 1eo acres, "and that is sufficient
answer to this SANDER
We tried to obtain a copy of this bill
in Washington, but none could be found.
At last, from remote Dakota territory
from Grand Forks-we obtained by chance
within the last few days copy
of this paper. In this paper the
bill is republished verbatim, and I
will read you the sentence upon which the
whole tn1ng turns.
''That after the said lands embraced in any of
said reservations have been appraised, as herein
before provided, the secretary of the interior
shall be, and hereby is, authorized to offer the
same at public sale through the United States
land Office for the district where the land
is situated, to the highest bidder for cash only
for not less than the appraised value of
the same, which shall in no case be less than
S1.25 per acre, in tracts not exceeding l60 acres
to any one person, where the lands are chiefly
valuable for agricultural purposes and where
the lands are chiefly valuable for their pine or
other valuable timber, the character of the land
in all cases to be determined by the report of
the appraisers, the same shall be sold for cash to
the highest bidder, as herein provided, in tracts
of not more than 16O acres.''
And here this newspaper stops short in
its quotation. Yet, they say, this is sufi-
cient answer.
The land is to be sold in tracts of 100
acres and not more than 100 acres, but,
my friends, here follows these words:
provided,
that no limit shall be fixed as to the
amount of this character of land to be
purchased by any one individual"
Now, have had some experience in leg
islation, both national and state, and
will undertake to say that more
gigantic robbery and fraud never was at
tempted to be perpetrated on people of
any country. Under this bill Mr.. Wash
burn could step forward and purchase all
these pine lands, estimated by good au-
thorities to be worth $4O,OO0,OO0, and the
poor man is shut OUT With the homestead
law suspended and the bill
introduced to repeal the pre-emption
law successful. more of you can go up
there and purchase that pine land and OBJ
tain the benefits and the profits from it.
If you were to go up there and attempt to
bid on the land they would put the price
up high enough to drive you off, and when
they got clear of you they would go on and
sell the whole of these lands to the ring.
Now, my friends, that newspaper and
Washburn have deliberately and dishonest
ly lied about the bill.
The chamber of commerce of Grand
Forks, whose members you might say
were surrounded by and beheld the tran
sactions of this Infamous rascality, and
whose people were looking to these lands
for their supply of TIMBER this chamber
of commerce, I say, made its protest
against the passage of this bill and stated
it peremptorilyin the house of represen-
tatives.
But if you elect Mr.. Washburn again to