, 1892-03-17
Upholding Morsan's view.

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CHEYENNE, March I6.-The Sans
editorial attempt to answer Mr.. Morgan's
establishment of the Warren bill for the
cession to the states OF the arid lands Is
~innocuous, all Slack. l.. e. waste coal. A
weak defense is always a positive injury
to any cause. The editor OF the Sun is
prone to knock down and run over his
best friend if he goes to his relief or res
cue. The Sun ESSAYS three points against
Morgan's indictment-all ~untenable. even
with a political and business kindergarten
for a jury.
First-The reference to Mr.. MorRan's
being a censor of Warren is %wretchedly
unfortunate for it brings forward the
basis of Mr.. Morgan's objections to the
senator. viz. particularly, his record with
reference to United States public lands,
which even the senator's worst enemy
could wish buried out of sight and mem
DRY. This was lugged in despite the ap-
parent fast that Mr.. Morgan seemed to
have strained every nerve to blot out all
personal consideration from his strong
and impartial analysis of the senatorial
bill he was dissecting.
Second-The Sun says: He (Mor.
gan might as well object to the accept
ance of public lands for the state uni
v~ersity. insane asylum and other state in
stitutions." Can q human mind be so
obtuse as not to see that there is no
analogy. In the acceptance of the public
lands for the university, asylum. etc.,
the state does not contract to carry out
impossible and burdensome conditions.
such as irriestion aud Northumberland
farther, these lands are protected, for the
benefit of the citizens of the state, from
the monopoly land grabber by restricting
clauses in the cession act, forbiddIng sale
at less than a minimum of $40 per acre.
Third-The Sun shufhes and stumbles
in the face of the appalling cost Of re-
clamation which the state assumes by the
acceptances of the lands under the War
rem bill-and lodges by saying the gov.
eminent can take up the reclamation at
the end of ten years. This means that
within ten years foreign and home cor
poratiors and land sharks may cinch
what land they want. The state of Wyo-
ming by exhaustive and ruinIous taxation
in an abortive attempt at reclamation,
shall bankrupt herself. and then like a
poor fool who has margined his all in a
piece of real estate, forfeit the one he
has paid, and the real estate too, back to
the seller for failure of contract. IF Mr..
Morgan's figures be too large, fre times as
large, yet $50, 600. 900 is appalling. hor-
rible to contemplate, as additional taxa
ton in Wyoming. Hinc lilac lachrymae.
Yet 1t is legitimate to calculate on $780,
900. 000-if the state should in good faith
carry out the obligations she is asked to
assume.
The whole business is ridiculous and
strains human credulity to believe that
any sensible man who is u friend to the
people of Wyoming, advocates it seri-
ously. CITIZEN.
[.JudgIng from the last sentence in the
foregoing our correspondent has arbi-
trarily and summarily settled this whole
business. 1t is a happy faculty this of
being able to bite off discussion of weighty
questions right in the middle and settle
them beyond all further dispute. For
our own part we have no good reason to
believe that our correspondent is any more
the friend of the people of Wyoming
than are some of those who are seriously
favoring the cession of the arid lands to
the states.-ED. LEADER.