The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-20
WHAT PAUL SCHULTZ THINKS
About Land Forfeiture. Business, SILVER
and Irrigation.

CAD 10 get back where there is cli-
mate" No one who has breashed the
cool and bracing air OF Puget sound
can possibly spend July and August
in New York, without sitting, pent-up-in-
an-oven sensations. Mr.. Schulzs is no
exception He discussed variety OF sub
jects with PosT-lSrELLIeExcKR reporter
last evening. On land grant forfeiture he
said:
lI''The Pacific railroad land grant forfeit
ure bill Is purely political buncombe. II
will never pass the senate, and If il did, 10
would be declared unconstitutional by
the United States supreme court as
quick as that Isnapplng his fingers
smaitlyl There are dozens of de-
cisions of the higher court di-
reetly against this forfeiture proposition.
Oar lands are being patented rapidly.
Within the past i've months payments
for about s. 600 600 acres have been issued
in this state TO us. The last of the patents
covered 5000 acres in the Spokane dis
trict, which includes Whitman and other
counties" He was asked the significance
of this and replied:
at simply means the land Is being
turned over 10 Us. as provided by
our land grant, and that when pat
euted il is ours for all time. 1t
also signifies that the government
Is not taking any STOCK in the
forfeiture righteousness. Nothing will
come of this forfeiture talk. The courts
have held With Us. Congress cannot abro-
gate its own acts, when the requirements
have been met. Ii Is beyond the power of
congress to act"
Regarding Washington, as viewed by
Eastern capitalists:
"There are more inquiries about our
state. Still there are many things that the
people of this state should understand.
We have been running before we could
walk, and walking before we could creep.
We have engaged in too much so-called
public improvement. which is not public
Improvement at ali. 1t is detriment.
Seattle IS suffering from too many fine
schooihouses; Tacoma has TOO much
courthouse and city hall improvement
and ali over the state and the Northwest
there has been a tendency to i'm
cur excessive indebtedness. This
creates taxation. Taxation is the first
thing the investor, If he is a man worthy
of the name, looks up. He does not like
so-called public improvements that create
excessive taxation"
This is what Mr.. Schulze would do:
"We must get down to rigid economy.
Economy In state affairs, county affairs
and city affairs. Everything should be
operated at the least possible expense.
We must show to the investor that we
have something tempting for him to in
vest in"
He learned a lesson on validating also
while away:
I'VE have touched the bottom. and are
bounding upward, slowly but surely and
safely. We have made mistakes, but they
must not be repeated. 1t is our duty to
see that Eastern investors. of the
character that DO not look before
they leap, are given at least
fair warning not to interest themselves
in propositions that have no possible merit.
and which must in the nature of things
turn our unsatisfactory and attended
Wildcat Win 0 Schemes the all nTs sina.
should be frowned down, and inves-
tors should be told just where
the danger lies. In the past we have
rushed along attending strictly to our
own business. We have not taken the
pains, as rule, to inform the Eastern
investor against wildcats. As a result
many people who invest without
themselves in, and who have been
bitten. are now set against every prop
osition that is offered. They are
suspicious. They now look upon good
aud bad propositions on this Coast with
doubts. At the same time the men who
hEc hut away Dy UOOIns, are Feh1y
TO investigate proposition, and invest as
readily, as during better times. They are
the intelligent investors, and are conserv-
alive enough to avoid anything that might
be termed 'hyer.'"
Mr.. Schulze carried along the wildcat
idea into the irrigation question:
1T seems that the irrigation ques-
ton is beginning to be- more thor
oughly understood. and unquestiona-
bly, the next three or four years
will see large irrigation devel-
opments in this state, but the
irrigation proposition has been injured by
wildcat schemers. and by the absurd talk
OF dilletante and so-called irrigation con-
crosses. Oh the whole. large proportion
of the people who attend irrigation con-
crosses are the counterpart Of so-cailed
street farmers
He manifested no interest in proposed
government irrigation schemes. Next a
review Of the state, the United States, En-
gland. the tariff and silver:
People believe Washington Is the most
promising state in the Union. because we
have greater variety of resources than
any state in the Union. symptoms OF
Populistic tendencies in this state
have injured Us. but happily il now
appears the Populists are on the
AGtAAtJe. IN taEN, u seems We nave AAU
series of mlsfortgnes, beginning with the
Coxey movement, followed by the foods,
and then the strike. The tide has turned,
and by attention 10 our best interests
Washington will lead all other sections Of
the country for years to come. see the
Republican county convention endorsed
iTea silver, or is equivalent, l6 to /
The ratio should be much higher. simply
because there = too much silver 10 warrant
q ratio Of Is TO !. II is a tendency to fat
money. The leading bimetsliists of the
country 90 nos believe an international
conference on basis OF Is TO will ever be
reachet. and the international conference
Itself - long way of. The American
farmer Is snaeriug from excessive tariff
legislation IA the pass, which has
resulted in other countries that
raise wheat and other cereals re-
eeiving the trade Of ERgland, which
prefers 70 buy where IL can sell is pro-
duets in return. Excessive protective
tariff has proved hindrance 10 trade in
stead OF fostering IL and history shows
that II IS a nations commerce that makes
Is rich.
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