The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-15
CATERS TIMBER REGULA-
TIONS.

The TRIBUNE is now finding fault be-
cause corporations take advantage of the
law and the application to cut timber off
large tracts of land. Hitherto large cor
porations, ONE of them heavily inter
ested in the TRIBUNE, have cut timber
on the public lands in violation of law.
Moreover, it is II thing to make an ap-
pllcatlon anu another to have it granted.
Leader.
The Leader purposely misrepresents
the TRIBUNE. This journal does not
find fault with corporations for taking
advantage of Mr.. Carriers timber rules
and regulations. But it does find fault
with the rules and regulations which
permit corporations or a single individ-
ual to become possessed of the govern
ment timber of the state without paying
a single cent for it. 1t finds fault and
will continue to find fault with rules and
regulations which permit a mar to be-
come sole owner of the tim
Der upon a strip Of land 100
miles long by five miles wide. 1t finds
fault with rules and regulations which
permit a corporation to possess itself of
the timber growing upon hundreds of
thousands of acres of timber lands. 1t
finds fault with Mr.. Carter for formulating
such a set of rules and regulations. He
ought to know better. He does know
better. 1t is with Mr.. Carter and his
timber rules and regulations that the
TRIBUNE finds fault and none but a
contemplate pettifogger would other
wise construc the remarks of the TIM
CNE.
''Hitherto," whines the Leader,
large corporations. some of them heav-
lily interested in the TRIHCNE, have cut
timber off the public lands in violation
of law" Even if the charge be true
what has it to do with Mr.. Carriers tim
regulations? And what has the
Leader to say about these alleged in
fractions of the law: Was it in the jack
pot, was it bribed to silence or was it
afraid to denounce the violators? But
the Leader lies like a pirate. No cor
porations. 'heavily interested in the
TRIBUNE, have cut timber off the public
domain in violation of the law"
Moreover" adds Carriers apologist,
lit is one thing to make an application J
and another to have it granted" So
Carter has become the head of a
Joke perpetrating department? He is
ioing a funny business! He has a
string attachment to the promises held {
in his timber regulations! a man I
for a few dozen townships of .
government timber lands. Mr.. Carter t
the signature to the application,
places his thumb upon his nose, twirls h
lis fingers and laughingly replies: "Not
or you by d-m sight. ] am the d
nigh cockalorum of the wood pile. I'll /
rive that plum to a political chum. You t
ire not in it," Or has Carter es- v
an agency at Washington
or the purchase of Harrison =
'otes? Does he propose to extend tim l.
'er cutting privileges to those only who !,
stock in Harrison's administration? :,
las he authorized the Leader to say :,
hat no democrat need apply? If none n
# these things why should the Leader !,
ay that lit is one thing to make an ap- 9
'lication and another to have it granted." r.
1t seems that man may propose, but it v
) Carter who ~disposes. Will the interior :,
apartment let one man have a million a
ores of timber lands and cut another a
W to forty or twenty acres, or will it
reat them all alike? Will the Leader.
hitch appears to know all about the l.
brokers' bureau of the interior de n
artment, give the true inwardness of II
'arter's timber regulations? Please tell b
our readers what you know. 1t won't Ii
axe but a line or two. p