Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-11-05
LIEU LANDERS
WIN THE FIGHT
Opposition EndeayOrS to Rob
Senator Wilson Of His Due.
Speeches of the Senator and Chap
lain Bateman at COlfax Sat
urday Night.
Colfax Gazette. Octnhnr oS

Senator John l.. Wilson and Chaplain
{. c. Bateman OF the Sixteenth regular
infantry addressed a large audience at
the court house Saturday evening, : de-
| spite the insufficient notice given the
meeting, deavy dOwnpour Of rain and
the, entertainment OF q popular opera
| company.
Both addresses were most attentively
listened to and heartily cheered. Senator
| Wilson talked nearly an hour and made
a speech for America and Americans.
The Lieu!Land Question.
Referring to the charge of a Spokane
! fusion paper that he was not to be
credited with securing the recent favor
able legislation which has settled the
lieu land question after a score of years
OF trouble and demagoguery, the senator
clearly demonstrated the entire falsity
of the fusion story and asserted without
equivOcation that the settling of the lieu
land question was due solely to his ef-
forts and to none other. He said:
The fact remains that the lieu land
settler, under the Wilson amendment,
gets his land without money and with
out price. All he has to do is to write
to the Ommissioner of the general land
office at Washington, D. c., giving the
description of his land and requesting
that he be permitted to enter it. But
this he must do before the railroad com
panv will relinquish it to the govern
ment."
Congressman Lewis, he found by an
exhaustive search OF the Congressional
Record, had never even carried a motion
to adjourn, let alone do any service of
benefit to the people. He ridiculed Jones'
wheat chart and torpedo boat speech,
and vigorously condemned Senator
Turner for his unpatriOtic and treason
able speech in the senate in his attack
upon President Mckinley. Following
the history of the republican party, he
declared that prosperity always attended
it when in power. Touching upon the
war and its results, the senator declared
that where the American flag once floats
there it shall always float, and was
heartily applauded for the sentiment. A
strong plea for the establishment of a
large merchant marine and for the
Nicaragua canal was an important part
OF the speech. The canal he said, would
add 81 to the value OF every acre of Pa
chic coast wheat and 81 to every thou
sand feet OF lumber. The violent criti-
clsms OF the conduct Of the war were We
hemently denounced saying it is indecent
and wrong to talk so of a war which
lasted but ia days and the results of
which we're so glorious. He spoke of the
good feeling prevailing in all sections OF
the country and denounced al who are
or,a+I e so nrrny- ono class against
auotGer, OF one section against another
The senator's speech was we'll received
ana frequently and heartily applauded.
Chaplain Bateman on the War.
Chaplain Bateman confined his eIo.
quent address to the conduct OF the war
As participant in his good offices with
his regiment, he could find 10 fault ex
cept with the war howlers in and out of
congress who forced the war without the
necessary preparation for war in a for
eign land in the sickly season of the
tropics. His ideas were that those who
have always opposed appropriations for
keeping the army and country on a war
footing were to blame for any short
cOmlngs which the war developed, and
not the war department Had the coun-
try been possessed OF men trained in the
business OF war to handle the commits
saries OF the volunteer army, conditions
would have been better.
The chaplain drew some of the most
beautiful word pictures ever painted be-
fore COlfaX audience. That Of the first
approach to the coast of Cuba and of
the Oregon shooting the yellow flag of
CASTLE from the top of FL Moro were es-
pecially thrilling and beau tiful, as was
also that of a battle he witnessed be-
tween the American warships and Span
sh batteries.