The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-01

ips a single man, or a horny old
bachelor, or a strapping young single
woman give her one ticket. II family
Of five, give them five tickets. II its
German or scandinavian with q family
Of ten give them ten chances 10 draw the
farm. Let them register with the coun y
clerk and fill out blank telling where
they came from and where they have
located and tha they are bonafde in
tending residents Of this county. Ten
dollars will advertise this fact to ten
million people in the east and set them
all talking about it. Let the farm be
bought and paid for ont Of funds that
we would otherwise spend on advertising
in general way and It would go to some
deserving newcomer insiead Of wasting
II on papsuckers, already here, at some
exposition.
The average American has an idea
that the public lands we're once the
property Of the people and that there
was some kind Of intention that here in
the land Of the free there should be a
chance Tor every young fellow and his
girl 70 hitch up and go out and take a
homestead and make farm for the kids,
and, even middle-aged or old fellow
and his girl, who had done with such
thing az raising babies, might 90 and
get home on government land II they
felt crowded in some city This has largely
been done away with and the eastern
college dudes got up a scheme called
the forest reserves that swells the num-
Der Of city office-hoders and shuts out
the bonafids settlers from ever occu-
pying such ter ritoIy. Once year lot
OF forest rangers are sent out to patrol
the reserve and keep out forest fires and
preserve the timber so that the rivers
will not dry up and the whole Amer.
lean continent become a desert. Some
head official has his headquarters in a
city like Salem aud lot OF favorite sons
get places as forest rangers and have
a good time in the mountains protecting
the trout and shooting pigeons while
drawing a salqry. At Washington, d..
c., whole army Of CLERKS are employed
making out payrols and compiling re-
ports Of many million feet Of standing
pine, vine maple, fern and chittim-bark
patches were saved from forest fires. In
each state great tracts are leased
10 cattle and sheep mon
opolists who run out all the small
ranchers aud prevent the settlement
and development Of the country.
Another priceless blessing is conferred
by the forest reserve system, and that is
II permits corporations who have un'
completed titles TO land grants, or lands
stripped OF all the timber, to turn that
worthless land into the government and
take the choicest timber lands in large
tracts whenever they can find IL with
out any further expense, thus again
shutting out the settler. State timber
land speculators are also enabled by
these reserves 10 get new bases for
beating the state and school funds out
OF valuable sections OF lieu lands. This
also keeps out the poor fool citizen who
imagines the public domain was in
tended for purposes OF home-makinR
aud home seekers. SO successful 10
this forest reserve policy in iattening
the corporations, making places for
politicians and shutting out the settler
that the push are at work all the time
blocking out new reserves while the
people are asleep. Just now one IL
being shaped up In southwestern Ore
gon, 10 include some OF the most
timbered portions Of Coos and Curry
counties. A special agent by the name
Of Bender, probably not of the original
Bender family Of Kansas, whom Binger
Herman vouches for as perfectly
conscientious and straight forward pap
sucker, has recommended the creation
OF this reserve, and Binger exceedingly
regrets that the department has been %
very improvident in the past. in
creating these reserves and thus legis-
lating for corporations and mon
opolat and against the settlers 10y th'
wholesale by what he calls "improyi
dent inclusions," a mild term for steal
ing on large scale lie winds up by
expressing the belief that creating o
this reserve is warranted and would
be OF great advantage in protecting
the timber and water supply in South
western Oregon aud extending hi
domain of federal appointments by sew
eral score OF walking delegates 10 count!
conventions. IL makes no difference h
him that the whole country where
is settled grows up to timber so thicl
than II never eau be destroyed by AK
fire, wind or even by the goyernmen
itself II 1t wanted to. As eyeryon
knows, the whole Yaquina bay countr.
has grown up 10 thick timber in fort
years since Il was settled up and th
settler stopped the forest fires and tha
IL Just what will take place whereye
the timber county is thrown open I
the settler. Keeping out the settle
prepares the forest for those great con
tlagrations that at no times have
= occurred since the country was settled
OF course, Binger Hermann is not inter
ested in one such bedrock commonsens
fact about a timber country, as that th
settler 10 the natural protector OF th