The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1902-12-12

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nus become q fixed policy. The results
ionoWing its introduction have fully
| justiied the Congress in the large o.,
propriations made for its estehl,sb-
ment and extension. The averass
Nehriy increase In postoffice receipts In
lne furM districts of the country 4,
about per cent We are now able.
py actual results. to show that where
| rural free delivery service has hea,,
established to such an extent al 10
enable us to make comparisons the
yearly Increase has been upward OF
10 per cent. u
On November |, 1902. 1850 rural
| free delivery routes had been est.h
lshed and were in operation. cover
s ABOUT one-third of the territory
| or the United states available for rural
| tree delivery service. There are now
| awaiting the action OF the departrent
| petitions and applications for the es
uapiishment of 1918 additional routes.
| inns shows conclusively the want
| winch the establishment OF the service
| mas met and the need OF further ex-
tending 1t as rapidly as possible. II 1,
| Justifed both by the financial result.
| ana by the practical benefits to our
| rurai population; IT brings the men
! VINO live on the soil into close rela-
|
| u Keeps the farmer in daily touch with
| me markets: II is n potential educa-
| tlohal force; II enhances the value OF
| arm property makes farm life far
| pleasanter and less isolated and will
| 90 much to check the undesirable cur
| rent from country TO city
| II Is to be hoped that the conyras.
will make liberal appropriations for the
| continuance of the service alreosv es-
tablished and for It's further extension.
FOR IRRIGATION IN THE WEST.
Few subjects of more Importance
| nave been taken up by the Congress
| IN recent years than the inauguration
OF the system OF nationally aided irri-
cation for the arid regions of the far
west. good beginning therein has
been made. Now that this policy OF
| national irrigation has been adopted.
the need of thorough and scientific for.
| est protection Will grow more RAPIDLY
man ever throughout the public land
states.
So far as they are available for Az
riculture, and to whatever extent thew
| may be reclaimed under the national
! irrigation law, the remaining nuhIic
lands should be held rigidly for the
home builder, the settler who lives
on MS land, and for no one else. In
their actual use the desert-land law
the timber and stone law, and the
computation clause of the homestead
law have been so perverted from, the
intention with which they were enacted
MS to permit the acquisition of large
areas of the public domain for other
than actual settlers and the CONSEQUENT
prevention OF settlement. Moreover.
me approaching exhaustion of the pub-
lie ranges has OF late led to much dis
CugEiOn n thp
these public lands In the west which
are suitable chiefly or only for gfaz-
ing. The sound and steady develop-
lnent OF the west depends upon the
building up OF homes therein. Much OF
our prosperity as nation has been
due to the operation of the home-
stead law. On the other hand. we
should recognize the fact that I'm the
grazing region the man who cores
ponds to the homesteader may be un-
able to settle permanently II only all
lowed to use the same amount of pas
ture land that his brother, the home-
steader, Is allowed to use of arabic
land. One hundred and sixty acres Of
fairly rich and well -watered soil. or a
much smaller amount Of irrigated
land, may keep n family in plenty.
whereas no one could get living from
one hundred and sixty acres OF dry
pasture land capable OF supporting NJ
the outside only one head of cattle to
every ten acres. In the past great
tracts OF the public domain have been
fenced In by persons having no title
thereto, In direct defiance of the law
forbidding the maintenance or con-
struction of any such unlawful inclos-
ure OF public land. For various rea-
sons there has been little interference
with such Enclosures I'm the past. but
ample notice has now been given the
trespassers. and all the resources at
nd 30 tHA
hereafter he used to put a stop to such
trespassing.
THE CARE OF INDIANS.
In dealing with ~ India,s our aim
should be their ultimate absorption in
TO the body or our people. But in many
cases this absorption must and should
be very slow. In portions of the Ind
ian Territory the mixture of blood has
gone on at the same time with prog
ress In wealth and education, SO that
there are plenty of men with varying
degrees or purity of Indian blood who
are absolutely indistinguishabls in
point or social. political. and economic
ability from their white associates.
There are other tribes which have AZ
yet made no perceptible advance to-
ward such equality. To try to force
such tribes too fast is to prevent their
going forward at all.
Moreover, the tribes live under wide.
ly different conditions Where n tribe
has made considerable advance and
lives on fertile farming soil II Is possi-
bic to allot the members lands in sew
crafty much as is the case with white
settlers. There are other tribes where
such course is not desirable On the
arid prairie lands the effort should be
to induce the Indians to lead pastoral
rather than agricultural lives and to
permit them to. settle In villages rather
than to force them into isolation.
The large Indian schools situated re-
mote from any Indian reservation do o
special and peculiar work of great Inn
portance. But excellent though these
are, an immense amount of additional
work must be done on the reservations
themselves among the old, and above
all among the young, Indians.
The first and most important step
toward the absorption of the Indian ID
to teach him to earn his living; yet Il