Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-17
GREENBACK MEETING.
Col. Roberts, of Texas, Oh the Situation.

GREENBACI MEETING.
Col. Roberts, of Texas. OH the Situation.
Last Saturday evening, some 40 or so
assembled at the courthouse, to hear COL
Roberts of Texas. The Col. belabored
about equally both the old parties, and
thought neither had longer valid reason
to exist. He said the Republicans IA
vored mon6polies, and the Democrats
framed their platforms on the plan of
approving the Republican issues of four
and eight years previous-used last years
birds nests TO try and hatch their eggs in.
He said the Democrats of this district had
selected candidate for Congress, Bier
mann, whose sole qualification was his
| place of birth. He wanted to pay off the
bonds in greenbacks, and save interest.
Belmont, for instance, required to take
silver. and refused silver certificates,
| would accept greenbacks rather than cart
away his silver. and would not then call
them worthless, but put them in circula
ton by purchases and loans and we
should get some of them out here to help
develop the country. No doubt, they
will neither be repudiated nor seriously
|depreciate, till the Belmonts get them
into the hands of the farmers. It is to
save the common people, in whose hands
| they are sure to be when the drop comes,
that we oppose over-issue and deprecia-
ton. The Col. spoke OF the railroad
make eight states of the size of Ohio.
The Col. claimed that English syndicatcs
were purchasing land in large bodies, and
that but twelve million acres of public
lands were left. He read a list of tracts of
land mounting to thousands Of acres, and
names of English holders, in Texas, Loui-
siana, Mississippi, Florida, New Mexico,
&c. And horror of horrors Some writer
in the n. Y. Times had prophesied that
the time would come in the United States
when the average citizen would not have
the capital to own both the land and the
stock and machinery to profitablY work
it; one man would own the land, and
rent to another with capital to farm it.
The Times, once Republican, supports
| Cleveland, and so both the old parties
must suffer the odium of this chance ex-
preston of a writer who seems neither to
have desired, nor advocated, but simply
| foretOld. General Butler was recon-
mended as kind of gargling oil for this
and all other ills of the body polite, good
for man and beast, external or internal
application. The Col. wanted any one
who questioned any of his statements to
make known his dissent then and there
or he would pronounce him coward to
wait till he was gone and dispute his
statements. Without waiting for qucs-
ton or dissent, he then plur gcd into the
pyrotechnic part of his discourse, in
which blood, flame, the French rcvolu-
ton and worse, leomcd up. Peace and
serenity is our portion, with Ben. Butler,
or agony and destruction without The
Col: ably supplemented enlightening the
reason with terrorism. If he expects
to see many uncOnvinced persons vote
the Greenback ticket, through fear, we
don't. We find report of the Secretary
Of the Interior for 1872 in the public
567 Of that report, the whole amount Of
land surveyed from the foundation of
the Government is stated to be 5S3, 1854, 7SQ
acres; the amount then unSurveycd,
,251 ,633, $50; the amount disposed of
during the current year II 1864, 975. The
rate OF disposal was nearly twelve million
acres per annum in 1872 and must have
been more than eight times more rapid
ever since if but twelve million acres are
left, counting only the unsurveyed part
as then U. S. property. This will last six
weeks at the same rate, and it is no use
to elect Butler, as we cannot inaugurate
him before the 4th of March. We find in
statistics of Agriculture, Census $780,"
on page IS, that the average size of all
the farms in the United States in 1860
was 1919 acres in 1870, 1873 acres; in 1880,
1874 acres. So the theory that land is
getting into fewer hands, and the tenant
system will soon prevail, is incorrect.
c. J. Short, Esq, at the close of Co.'s
speech, said he expected to cOntrOvert most
Of the statements he had heard, and did
not wish to be called a coward; and
would now pronounce it incredible that
but twelve million acres, one fourth the
acreage of Minnesota, we're left of public
lands; and would say that the Republi-
can party passed the homestead law, and
tended more and more to reserve all agri-
cultural lands exclusively for its opera
ton. That Republicans, as we'll as Ben.
Butler, and men of all parties, joined in
making railroad land grants, but none
had been made for number of years.
That the alleged syndicates could have
acquired land in Texas only from the
state, as the U. S. never owned a foot of
land in Texas. That in Louisiana, Florida
and New Mexico, it might have been done
by purchase of old Spanish grants from in
1udG III UllSSlSSlppl, duu per
haps other states, there were nearly worth
less swamps and pine barrens long in the
market that might have been bought of
the United States, though the U. S. usu-
ally granted such lands to the several
states
The Col. thought the Secretary of the
Interiors report erroneous, but asserted
he took his figures from it ; and claimed
the homestead law as Democratic meas
ure, as his father took a homestead under
it in Illinois back in the forties when he
was a boy! [Too many of his own per-
suasiOn were present who could not get
homesteads in Mower county, but paid
for their land, clear up to spring of 1861,
and he gave that up He admitted that
all Texas lands were bought Of the state,
but asserted that some of the syndicates
held land in the northwest. Probably &C.
CURED from railroads. The Government
is not selling its farm lands to spectators,
English or American. -s,ss-
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