The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-04-25
IYAKTMA PHILOSOPHER.
4 Pioneer Sage Takes Up thsQgsstIcn Of
Law and Landed Property.
ROFees-lS Ten Acres Of Lana
Enough fer . RaPmsgP

your valuable paper for medley.
When Calico discovered that this
planet Of ours was round all Of the worlds
people then known clamoFed for his life,
or at least to have him thrown in prison.
To this cry he answered: You can i'm
prison my body, but you cannot impFisOn
my mind. will continue my thinking,
and give to mankind my thoughts as {
receive them, and in this I viii BE- justi-
fed in the future. and hope other men
in other times will do likewise.
How generous and unselhsh the Lam
guage Of this great man; and even in this
pushing and selfish age his philanthropy
thrills the senses Of all.
Ihave gotten into thinking mood on
small scale, as I suppose Il IL natural
for the children Of Q common paFentage
TO think-some for good and some for
evil-and II occurs to me that those who
could enlighten and elevate their fellow
men, in this day, keep a. still ~ = clam
In high water. Shakespeare said: Men
put into their mouths that which stealeth
away their brains" Those who are am
ply endowed with intelligence nowadays
have their brains not stolen, but blunted
and calloused, and the best instincts Of
their nature stolen through their breeches
pockets. They keep their thoughts to
themselves, In fear Of losing that cursed
dolIar. and knowipplv commit a moral
wrono ON ,beiy fellow men. sim & oer.
sist in calling this an age Of progression.
In what Il n proVTeAaIveP II Won say this
nineteenth century q prouTesaive In an
iuventjve senso vc, ara y,Cht soma will
saw that We are better educated and more
intelliVent which h slso rioht. but I have
been musin0 how we have been proQraau-
ina in selfsbneas and in a suirito Of aeurau.
diSsment towapla each othsp. NOT fopoet.
ting our MORTGAGES and our uS,Iry tactics.
IL Iris The Wav that We are proeresuinsP
Il n mot more iike re,ropradineY Itseems
40 IN me. II We wish tn be- rirht In n
natural seuse. and be truly progressive.
wa must take nm the laws Of Moses. or
what are nearest them, the old Celtic
clan laws, dropping the bandit baron
clauses maintained In the middle ages,
but which still linger to a degree, and
which are q curse on man to the present
day. II we simplify our laws In this
great land, We can be o. progressive as
the heart can wish.
Ihave been thinking also how some
people say that the pioneers Of new coun-
tries are 4 greedy, monopolistic crowd.
Is this senerousP Is Il just to call poor
pioneer monopolistH He that has taken
up the lamp Of civilization and advanced
to the privations Of frontier life, while
the man who follows the pioneer with his
college scrip or shinplasterS buys thou
sands Of acres Of our best land for song
10 hold for fancy price to be Wrung from
the home-seeker. Not a word is said
about the former being q monopolist, but
the advance guard Is called greedy for
holding ON to 100 acres with which to
support himself and bis children.
Ith;ok 7 h.vs hs.,d anna opa sav that
the early settlers should divide their farms
int ten acre tracts. have debated on
selling all my land except ten acres, but
In figuring ON the problem l asked myself
some pertinent questions. How much
land would / have for cultivation after
taking of room for house. stables, door
yard, ETC., and how many fne horses and
fancy cattle and chickens could / TaiseH
Wei, my dear sir, after much figuring I
nave Il IN in disRust and concluded was
rather dull Of comprehension. Then I
tried again, taking q different tact, and
thought how nice and pleasant Il would
be TO shake hands every morning with
INV ueirhbors over the fence, and how
snug and compact we all could bs wedgod
In ike sardines in q boz, but then the
thought Of the financial outcome Of this
mode Of farming would obtFude itself.
You see, have done my best 70 convince
mvsalf that the advice Riyen by some peo-