The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-26
Forestry associa ton and the schemers
who are working behind It. He is a

Forestry association and the schemers
who are working behind it. He is a
very smooth citizen. He has made
Hoke Smith believe that the scheme
of saving the forests was a great one,
and Smith has announced that the
matter would be entirely in the hands
Of the assistant commissioner who had
the right idea. 1t was not hard to get
the assistant commissioner to make
the recommendations and to get
Smith to endorse them, and that is
just what has been done. 1t is easy
now to see that under the guise of a
great and philanthrophic movement
there was d scheme the dimensions Of
which are illimitable. And what do
the advocates of the scheme say when
there is opposition to it by the west
ern members of Congress 2 Why,
that these western members are work
ing the interests of their constituents
who want to steal the timber. l have
heard SO much of that kind of rot ever
since that fateful section "a was SNUG
gled through in the weary hours of
an all-night session, when it is i'm
possible oknow all that is passing off
in conference committees between the
Houses. was watching that land
bill very closely and l could not tell
all that was in it until after Congress
had ad djourned.
In regard to public lands tits great
deal like the Indians. The eastern
people drove the Indians all to the
west and they are now fearful that the
western people will abuse them. And
having disposed of all the lands in
east and in the middle west, they are
ready to do something to protect
these lands and in doing so they fall
into the traps which the schemers al
ways set for them. The large sized
African in this wood pile has been dis
covered in time and it is only ques
ton of time before he will appear
more closely yelled, but still capable
of great deal of mischief.
There was a nice little story in cir
culation which had for it's origin the
fertile brain of the fakir, or rather the
uaala ha always isa.aps at conclusions,
which told how Senator. .Washburn was
to dispose of the silver fight, by taking
the chair on the all-night session and
by refusing to recognize silver sena-
tors put the repeal bill to vote. This
all came about by the discussion of
how the vote could be brought about,
and the statement was made that no
senator would dare to make any such
ruling. Whoever was talking asserted
that Senator Washburn would just
as soon as not make such a ruling if he
was in the chair. and that is the way
the story was started. It was attri-
buted to the nerve of the Minnesota
senator by those who have come to
know him, but Senator Washburn said
that he was in favor of repeal. he
was not going to try and run the
Democratic senate.
That was not a very good showing
that Commissioner Lochrcn made the
other day in the report which he sent
through Secretary Hokc Smith to the
House of Representatives. twill not
be such record as he would like to
make the campaign on for governor
of Minnesota, or for the United States
Senate. It was to the effect that be-
ginning with May ana ending with
the last of August, there had been
over ten thousand pensions sus-
pended. What was still more to the
of the Democratic adminis-
tration of the pension office was the
fact that of these ten thousand sus-
pensions more than six thousand had
been restored to the rolls up to the
7th of October. But think of it Here
is an acknowledgment that more than
six thousand pensions had been I'M
Justly and illegally suspended in four
and there is no means of tell
ng how many of the balance will have
oeen found to have been illegally sus-
pended. As matter of fact after a
nan has been granted a pension and
s on the rolls under the law, the sus-
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