Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-11


| land capable Of supporting at the QUIT
side only one head of cattle to every tenl
aGreS; ACRES: tn In the past great great tracts Of the
persons having no title thereto, in direct
defiance of the law forbidding the main,
tenance or construction of any such un-l
lawful inclosure of public land. For va,
riouS reasons there has been little inter-
ference with such Enclosures in the past.
but ample notice has now been givenI
the trespaSSerS, and all the resources n q
the command of the government will
hereafter be used to put stop to such
trespassing.
Alaska Legislation Asked For.
] especially urge upon the congress the
need of wise legislation for Alaska. 1t
| is not to Our credit a nation that
Alaska which has been ours for 35 years,
should still have as poor a system Of
wealth, in fisheries, furs, forests, and
also in land available for certain kinds
of farming and stock growing. 1t is a.
sources, well fitted to support a large
perm1ahendt perm iaId population. Alaska needs a
homesteads and preemptions will en-
courage permanent settlement. We
should shape legislation with a view not
to the exploiting and abandoning of the
territory, but to the building up of homes
therein. The land laws should be Liberal
| in type. 50 as to hold out inducements
to the actual settler whom we most de-
sire to see take possession of the coun-
try. The forests of Alaska should be
protected, and, as secondary but still
important matter the game also, and a
the same time it is imperative that the
be, under proper regulations, for their
own use. Laws should be enacted to
against the greed which would destroy
them. They should be preserved as Il
permanent industry and food supply.
Their management and control should be
turned over to the commission of fish
and fisheries. Alaska should have a dele
gate in the congress 1t would be wen
{ q icir
Alaska and investigate it's needs on the
ground.
The Indians.
In dealing with the Indians our aim
should be their ultimate absorption into
the body of people. But in many
cases this absorption must and should
be very slow. In portions of the Indian
territory the mixture Of blood has gone
on at the same time with progress in
plenty of men with varying degrees of
purity of Indian blood who are abSo-
lutely indlstingulsha bic IN point OF social.
their white associates. There are other
tribes which have as yet made no per-
Ceptible advance toward such equality.
To try to force such tribes too fast IS TO
prevent their going forward at all. More
over the tribes live under widely differ
ent conditions. Where a tribe has made
considerable advance and lives on fertile
farming soil it is possible to allOt the
members lands in severalty much as is
the case with the white settlers. There
are other tribes where such course is not
effort should be to induce the Indians to
lead pastoral rather than agricultural
lives, and to permit them to settle in
Isolation
The large InG!an schools situated remote
from any Indian reservation DO a special
and pcclilGar work of great imporfauce
But, excellent though these are, an i'm
mense amount OF aGditioral work must bR
done on the reservations themselves amOusf
the old and above all among the Young
the ABSORPTION Of the indian is TO teach
him to earn his living; yet it is not reces-
it m u ir|,f ~ must b@corn siher iI,ers
OF the soil or stock ralsrrs. Their Industries
NAV nr0pnrly he SiverSitie1 and those who
show special desire or afaptability for in
dusirial or even commercial pursuits
should be encouraged so far as practicable
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Sciehiihc Ala TO FARMERS
In no department of governmental work
in recent years has there been greater sue
"L.~ t,it 2 E Yiyr Tt@I1t tIg aid TO
the farming poputaIon, therepy sho"iIIs
si,,ns ,rbnro is 20 rerS IF ireist 10 mon
it iI1,,,6rtSrTa - fo. ~ yarfgra ~ The
~ 1n.i'WGi W 49,, fg 5"r Ii III ,p
MeiaFe ol tIe rgLGptc aS a WH1Is' i dh i!t IG
nL'tuH 20 Sl5SI WI n a. H"s1i 'iS q
-, 'li ~, ~ ny @ - 49, +II,4,cS5
IiSb E icsT Ii,' feI s'it 6as
farmer by he jjrtl%Guctior of new plants
pcIii,,,S inI,'gitfrT IL ifrreT+
pgrG,t1L ~ IN, r - tI
oi ~ gIO,, a. 10
L. - 80 80 10 ,rIti ,,I iIit,, . r,11.-S
~ 80 49, WA ~ a. -, "a
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regions OF an annual ralLlal OIL OILY t."
gr ~ y, - tI, u
~ ~ 1ot 80 r. - Tvss
.oiI VI ~ ~; ~ - "a - 80
bner mao to about e0iai The home ae-
mard In the southwest the poSslbt,.,y of
regra seirp GverstockeI range lanes has
been feTn6rstr4tpd: i'm the rGrth Tnaryrew
forage rrons have been iEtro5uce9 while
IN no ea.t ft has baer eruVr that s9rre of
our choicest fruits can be stored and
shipnsG in such a way as to find a profitabIe
marker abroad
The district of Columbia is the only part
of olIr territory in which the national s0v-
err yot,t e,rsrrTs es local or r7,iricfn9I f1Ir
lions and where in corsaqmerce the gov
errnent has a free hand I'm reference to
certain types of social and economic Iegis-
Iati6n which must be esEentiallv local or
muricipaI in their character The povern-
ment shouI9 see to n for instance. fhatthe
hygieric and sanitary Iepjslatior a ffeCtiTr
Washirgton is Of a hirb character The
evils of sIum dwellings, whether in the
shane nf crowded ar1 S0rqseteS teremert-
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