Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25

said lands ara acquired by the government
shall have tho preference over all others
to purchase or otherwise acquire their
holdings, not exceeding sixty hectares in
area, within such reasonable time as may
be determined by said government"
The gentleman from Indiana INF. Crum-
packer1 says that 1t would be impossible
to find purchasers for this land, subdi-
vided in this manner. He says there are
not enough people in LuEon to occupy the
agricultural islands OF the country, and
yet. at the beginning, whom this govern
ment was founded, when we had q public
domain which We then thought would
last for centuries, we saw fit to throw
about 1t the protection Of land laws,
which from that day to this have limited
to 1G0 acres tho amount that could be ac-
CURED by any one person at one time by
purchase or homestead entry, and be-
lieve that the greatest misfortune that
ever befcll this people was when an acre
or n rod Of that land was diverted from
the purposes to which 1t was consecrated
by this early enactment Of the republic.
The gentleman says there are not enough
people In Luaon to occupy the land. Luz
zon is as populous es Rhode island. Ev-
cry inch Of sseble Land in tho island Of
Luxop Is Vnde0 cultivation or has been at
some time
When we were providing Tor our own
people We limited acQuisition2 under en-
try, homestead Or otherwise to 1G0 acres.
You thought II necessary when this con-
tinent afforded land sufficient to accom-
modate population Of 4oo, 900, 900 people to
limit the sntty to 100 acres. Now you
cay you arc trying 10 protect tho Filipino.
The amendment ] propose gives him
standing in h3s own country In reference
to the land in his own islands precisely
such ~ you have given to our own citi-
&nr1e1 ~AR g. t. -
Are you going to throw open tho gates
to speculAtoru there when you would not
throw open the. gates to spectators here7
Are you going to allow mon who desire to
establish large plantations and great bo-
hanza forms an opportunity In the Phil
ippine Islands which you never have dared
TO give them heees Ar. you going to re-
4eot this anlsndmeoe end then go home to
your Constituents and pretend that You
sought to protect the Philippine lands
which tho Vovern,ns0t Is about to buy
from the friase from the encroachment OF
speculators and bopensa farmersf When
We bay an Indian reservation and throw
It opsn to settlement, DO we consider the
fact that IN this country there are vast
unsettled a1eas and sag to the spectators
and bonanza farmers that they may buy
the Indian lands without limit? When we
took the measures lately to open up ccr-
tain Indian lands IN Oklahoma, did we not
Squ!re to len apres3
This amsudmsnt pse6s to impose the
same Limitation In the Philippine Islands.
This Rmendnknt poska to prevent land
monopoly there It seeks to prevent the
ftch corporn&spp and individual from taxi
10 support hundreds OF families engaged
in agriculture and Il vou refuse 1t you DO
It with knowledge Of the fact that the
proportion at the urban population OF tho
Philippine Islands 10 the whole population
| b many timeo grsa*sr than the urban
| population OF tho United States. You do
It with notice that nearly every man. wo-
man and child in the Philippines. outside
Of some OF tho large cities like Manila is
actually engaged in agriculture ana in no
other business and has no other means of
subsistence.
That also happened on the memo
rable Goth day OF June, and the Re-
publfcans with great unanimity voted
down Oochran's proposition, notwith-
| standing his unansWerable argument.
Cochran went down Just as Mccall
went down before the brute force of
a beastly Republican ajorlty. Wheth-
er the American people-eyen If they
finally decide to retain the Philippines
permanently-wil take kindly to prac-
| tically giving the crown lands to great
corporations in vast bodies instead of
opening them TO actual settlers re-
mains to be seen.
A Doubling Thomas.
| Clearly the Washington Post dnde-
pendent1, with an Ohio editor, still pins
Its faith to Buckeye statesmen and is
o doubling Thomas to Colonel Roose-
yelts capacity to win out in his fight
FIFTH Senator Hanna for the presiden-
tial nomination, for makes this Gym
fcal remark touching recent appoint
ment to fat Office for political effect:
The Hon. James Sullivan Clarkson has
| been appointed official keeper Of the i'd
mfnistratton's southern delegate kennels,
but the southern delegate has learned
few new tricks since the time the Iowa
| man was considered an expert in that
| sort Of work.
Perhaps Colonel Roosevelt, Senator
Hanna, James Sullivan Clarkson, the
Post and all concerned could learn.
something to their advantage by read
ing John Sherman's memoirs, in which
he speaks with bitter feeling and great
disgust as to the successful method
OF General Russell A. Alger in man
aging the southern delegate kennels"
Russ managed them to the queens
taste. By the way, what has become
bf the ex-secretary OF war? He seems
to have disappeared as completely as
II the earth had swallowed him. If
there Is big enough scramble for the
presidential Republican nomination,
perhaps he may resurrect himself,
enter the list and tap his barrel again.
| Then there will be Joy in the southern
Delegates kennel.
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