The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-17

upon her in every way. Go to the states
around her-to my own native state of
Iowa, though | do not live there now and
my personal concerns are no concerns OF
yours, yet it is with me as it is with every
man, there is soil where he first sax
the sunshine that appeals to his
sentiments, and l can say as Mary of Eng
land did when she died, remembering IN
her case the memory of her dssappoint-
ment and defeat as we in our case remem-
| Der great dignity and honor we can say
weth her, that when we die the name OF
our native state may be found written
upon our hearts. In my own native state
of Iowa, there came this necessity that is
now upon the states and territories repre-
sented upon this f1oor-the need of popula-
ton. Under our foot rich soil, over our
head kindly sun, every condition sup
piled by nature for prosperity, but lack
of population; and when that time came &c
Iowa. TO her early statesmen land thank
| God they were statesmen), the appeal went
again TO the Congress of the republic for
the creation of the relation of
the state of Iowa, and in February
1856 the Congress of the United States
granted the public domain lying within the
limits of the state of Iowa to the state in
trust for whats In order that the state
might regrant that public domain to rail
ways to secure the construction of that
great need of all new communities, the
means of transportation of their surplus
products to the
| MARKETS OF THE WORLD.
| And so in that state that lesson was taught
again, of the value of the relation of trus-
tor and trustee between the Union and the
state. The same policy was adopted in
i Wisconsin, Minnesota. ] believe in soma
! for or hor- in, thn St1+1 -
and believe also it has not been unknown
in Kansas. The trust being so conditioned
! as that every acre of land granted for this
express purpose to that purpose was de-
voted and to no other.
! Now then, let US ask that this precedent
that strikes every man in the east who
knows the history of the dealings of the
state with tho nation upon this question of
means of facilitating the question of the
movement of population by providing the
means of existence or the means of trans
portation TO market, let UP appeal to this
which is In the common knowledge of ali
who know the history of their country in
behalf Of the plan which is the purpose
that has brought US together. Let US AJAX
that the Congress of the nation shall create
between these states and territories this
same relation. Let us fall back upon
this venerable precedent which has
been justified by it's work. We
will then be asking no voyeltv,
We will then be plunging the
country into a discussion of no financial
scheme, we will disconnect this question
entirely from all other questions and pre-.
sent it as it was presented by the people
of these other commonwealth in the hour
of their desperation Present it to the
Congress OF the United States simply and
alone as the creation of q trusteeshiD
whose conditions shall be guarded by the
the federal government and whose condi-
tons, if they be violated, shall cause the
resumption of that trust by the federal
government.
! Now, | have listened today on this fioor
! to explicit declarations of crime and mis-
take on the federal government in dealing
with western lands, and they have been
applauded. ] have listened on this floor To
day to equally explicit
CONFESSIONS OF FRAUDS
by the states in dealing with parts of the
public domain of which they were the
actual donees, and that has been applauded
with equal vigor. So it seems that neither
states nor the nation alone has been able to
secure absolute purity and equity in the
administration of the public lands in a wav
TO benefit the people most concerned in
their devotion to noblest utility. Then let
US. by this relation of trustor and trustee.