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

my friend, DR.. Ames, who will follow me,
and trust you will wait to hear him.
undertake to say, my friends, that Mr..
Washburn has attempted the most gigan-
tic schene and piece of rascality that ever
was concocted or perpetrated in this
country, and, to-day, in order to carry
it out. he is seeking
to strike down the pre-emption act and
repeal it; and he introduced bill for
that purpose and to suspend the operation
of the homestead law over millions of
acres of land in Minnesota and Dakota
territory. What was this scheme and
GIGANTIC swIND1E
which has been perpetrated upon our peo-
pie? L: is a scheme TO appropriate
the Indian lands. 1t is scheme
to kconcent-ate the Indians of the
Northwest, from all their different
reservations, upon one reservation and
to dispose of the lands Of those reserva-
lions. These Chippewa Indians are tim
Der Indians. They live in the woods.
Their lands are largely covered with pine,
and it is the greatest body of valuable
pine that remains in this whole Northwest
1ucIO Is pike Ii tilCiC ~ Lux OISA tO0
and your children building material for
think will convince you that Mr.. Washburn
has attempted to so frame legislation,
that limitable ring OF men can obtain
possession of all those valuable pine lands
How do they do it? Well, as say, he pro-
poses to repeal the pre-emption law. A
man, my friends. who puts his finger upon
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with hostile intent strikes a blow at every
poor man and every man of moderate cir
cumstances in all this great country. You,
who toiling earn your daily wages with your
daily labor. what is your hope in the
future? Why, that some day you will &C
cumulate enough to 60 out there
and buy piece of the public land, there
to build you q house and have your farm
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
honored 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 man
(Washburn) to congress and in return he
undertakes to strike down the pre-emption
act. Can any one deny this fact.
Can any deny, after reading this
bill of Mr.. 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 pre-empticn act? What was
this great 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 half
dozen of men could obtain the whole of
them, Mr.. Washburn came out in speech
and vigorously denied it, point blank. His
newspaper in Minneapolis, the Minneapo-
lis Ereniag Journal, came out in an edito-
rial and quoted passage from the law
which said that the land should be sold in
tracts of 160 acres, land that is sufficient
answer to this SANDER
We tried to obtain 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 thing 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
Sl.25 per acre, in tracts not exceeding 100 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 160 acres.''
And here this newspaper stops short in
its quotation. Yet, they say, this is a suff-
cient answer.
The land is to be sold in tracts of 100
acres and not more than 16O 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 $4,000, GOO, and the
poor man is shut out. With the homestead
law suspended and the bill
introduced to repeal the presumption
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 of, and when
they got clear Of you they would 60 on and
sell the. whole of these lands to the ring.
Now, my friends, that newspaper and
Washburn have deliberately and dishonest.
~ 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 chamber
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