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reputation. Ny readers will pardon me
for comparing any statement made by
Senator Ingalls, with those made by Mrs
Lease, but as she 10 considered "A leader
OF the peoples party this fact must serve
as my excuse. Senator Ingalls, in 1888
In the United States Senate uttered the
following words, which every lover Of
his country applauds: ''No generation will
ever forget, as they assemble to recall
the memories OF this age, that the nation
holds in its fertile and tender breast no
more priceless treasure than the conse-
Grated dust Of those who died that this
might DO a government Of laws and not
OF men, and that liberty and constitu-
tional government might not forever
perish from the earth" Mrs. Leases
FIRST article contains the following, "The
judicial murder Of the Chicago anarchists
precludes the idea Of free speech" The
comparison, l opine, will in no wise re-
feet upon Senator Ingalls,.
The republican party In 1852 gave away the
peoples heritage, the land Why this blind
leader 0f the blind should suppose the Union Pa.
cllc railroad was meant any more than any OF
the eight roads chartered In the same year is not
apparent, but as we are confronting facts and
not theories, suppOstlOns do not cut any figure
In debate, whether verbal or written.
Why Mrs. Lease should make such an
absurd and false statement ls not appar-
ent, but as we are confronting facts and
not theories, such assertions cut no fig
ure In this debate. say the Union Pa
cIhc road because II was the only road
chartered that year, 1862, by Congress. /
said suppose" but nevertheless stated
facts, and respectfully refer her TO p. B.
Plumb's Senate speech on public lands
on September "a, 1883, and Blaine's
"Twenty Years in Congress-" which
prove conclusively that one great road
and only one, the Union Pacific, was
chartered in 1862. This statement Is on
a par with all her assertions. II there is
no more truth in her assertion that "the
republican party gave away In 1862 the
peoples heritage, the land" than there
10 In the assertion that "there we're eight
roads chartered in 1862 by the republi.
can party" then there IS no truth In
either Of them.
"The company report that they have
obtained $3 per acre for their lands J."
Suppose this company has In some looali-
ties received S3 per acre for their lands,
how many thousands Of acres are there
that are not worth 10 cents per acre to
them?
Mrs. Lease said ''the lands given to the
railroad were paid for by the people who
took homesteads, as the homesteads
along the lines Of railroad we're doubled
in price from $l.25 to $3.50"
II Is true that in those railroad grants
prior TO 1861 under democratic rule, the
alternate sections Of land along the line
Of road we're reserved by the government
and the double minimum price, $3.50
per acre, was exacted from the settler,
thus compelling the poor settler TO repay
the government for land donated for rail
road purposes, but the republican party
when they came into power passed the
homestead law, and under this law these
alternate sections, greatly enhanced In
value by the building Of the roads, were
opened without price to the homestead
settler Thus thousands of homestead
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