The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-07-11
WORSE THAN ALL.
fAIeridian Standard

uC newspapers AuAt AiI A1eioAAA5
that Gen. George has lost atouch" with
the people, that be is ont Of sympathy
with the plain people, that be is one Of
the ~hired minIons of plutOeracy,p that
he faVOrs this rich corporations and is
against the interests OF the poor; the
papers which say such things-say
them aud do not believe them-may
find the following resolutions "inter-
estin' readin'"
Resolved, That IN the judgment of
this House all the public lands hereto
fore granted to States and eorpor-
ations to aid in the construction of
railroads, so far as the same are now
subject to forfeiture by reason Of the
nOn-fulfillment of the conditions on
which the grants were made, ought to
be declared forfeited to the United
States aud restored to the public
domain.
Resolved, That ii is OF the highest
public interest that the laws touching
the public lands should be SO framed
and administered as to ultimately
secure freehold therein to the greatest
number of citizens; and to that end
all laws facilitating speculation in the
public lands or authorizing or permit
ting the entry or purchase thereof in
large bodies ought to be repealed, and
all of the public lands adapted to
agriculture Subject to bounty grants
aud those in aid of education) ought
to be reserved for the benefit of actual
and bona tide settlers, and disposed of
under the provisions of the homestead
laws only.
Resolved, That the Committee on
the Public Lands is hereby instructed
TO report to the House bills to carry
into effect the views expressed in the
foregoing resolutions; that said COM
mittee shall be authorized to report
such bills at any time, subject only to
revenue and appropriation bills, and
the same shall in like order be entitled
to consideration.
The foregoing resolutions were in
troduced in the 18th Congress, and
they Will be found in the Congressional
Record, first session of that Congress,
on pages 548 and $50. Against those
resolutions Maj. Barksdalc is recorded
as voting with sixteen others.
Now here is unnilgated richness.
The Sub-Treasury members of the
Alliance want to beat Gen. George for
the United States Senate; they want
TO beat him because he has "liyed so
long in Washington as to have lost
touch with the people, because he Is
one of the Nlired minions" of the rich
corporations. And whom do they
bring out to beat him. Do they bring
out one who has ever been In sympa-
thy with the people aud against the
corporations? Let the foregoing vote
Of Major Barksdale answer that ques-
tion.
The general Government grants GER
tain large tracts of land to a railroad
corporation on certain conditions. The
time expires and the conditions are
, not met. A resolution is offered in
tho National House of Representative
} forfeiting that land TO the public
J domain and reserving II for actual
/ settlers, and vote is taken. So just Ii
] the proposition as TO strike the sense
: of nearly every member of Congress:
: present and voting. Republicans and
| Democrats vote together for once and
| say the land shall be taken back by the
Government aud held for actual set
t tiers in the future. The vote is almost
unanimous. Two hundred aud fifty
0 one votes both Republican and Demo
} cratic, for the resolutions. Two hun
dred and tlfty-one votes to take Tho
{ land away from q corporation that hat
0 no further just claim to it--an almost
a unanimous vote. Almost, but moi
5 quite unanimous. There are seventeen
! votes against the resolutions, seventeen
G votes against declaring the land for
0 fcited to the public domain, seventeen
), votes against holding that land hence
: forth tor the benefit of tho actual set
Q tier, seventeen votes for corporation
i and against the interests of tho people
r And, sad to say, Maj. Barksdale cast
k one Of the seventeen votes. MAJ
Barksdale, with whom the Sub-Treas
t ury men hope to replace Senate
:. George in the United States Senate
, casts one of these seventeen vote
g against the resolutions. Mai. Barks
i dale votes TO let the corporations keel
t the land, though the conditions Of th'
D. original grant have not boen kept
II And yet the man who cast that vote
J, put up to beat Senator George becaus
d the Senator is said to favor corpor
ations! lie never favored a corpor
Q alton in his life. Well, there are
p great many different kinds of peopl
It in the world.