The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-05
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public land, in part by -ne
SUI. yision of large private noIu1ngs
5efol = they can get water from Gov
ernr ent irrigation works. The law
res that no right to the use of
water for land in private ownership
shall be sold for a tract exceeding
$50 acres to any one land owner.
This provision has excited active and
powerful hostility, but the success of
the law itself depends on the wise
and firm enforcement of it. We can
not afford to substitute tenants for
freeholders on the public domain.
The greater part of the remaining
public lands can not be irrigated.
They are at present and will proba-
bly, always be of greater value for
grazing than for any other purpose.
This fact has led to the grazing
homesteads of $40 acres in Nebras-
ka m to the proposed extension of
it to other states. 1t is argued hat
a family can not be supported on
160 acres of arid grazing land. This
is obviously true: but neither can
a family be supported on $40 acres
of much of the land to which it is
proposed to apply the grazing home
stead. To establish universally any
s1ch arbitrary limit would be unwise
at the present time. 1t would proba-
bly, result on the n hand in ne
larging the holdings of some of the
great land owners and on the other
in needless suffering n failure on
the part of a very considerable pro-
portion of the bona fde settlers who
give faith to the implied assurance
of the Government that such an area
is sufficient. The best use of the pub
lie grazing lands requires the care
full examination n classification of
these lands in order to give each set
tier land enough to support his fam
lily and no more. While this work is
being done, and until h lands are
settled, the Government should take
control of the open range, Under reas
enable REGULATIONS suited to local
needs, following the general policy al
ready in successful operation on theI
forest reserves. It is probable that
the present grazing value of the open
public range is scarcely more than
what it once was or what it might
easily be again under careful regula-
ton.
The forest policy of the Admins
tration appears to enjoy the unbro-
ken support of the people. The great
users of timber are themselves for
warding the movement for forest
preservation. All organized opposi-
IlOn 10 lne forest T9SeIsSS II IAS |
West has disappeared. Since the on
solidation of all Government forest
in the National Forest Service
there has been a rapid and notable
gain in the usefulness of the forest
to the people and in public |
of their value. The ma
tional parks within or adjacent to
forest reserves should be transferred
to the charge of the Forest Service
also.
Pensions.
It is a matter of unmixed satisfac-
ion again to call attention to the ex-
cefient work of the Pension Bureau:
for the veterans of the civil war have
4 greater claim upon us than any 9th
ar class of our citizens. To them. first
Of all among our people, honor is
lue.
d.. Seven years ago my lamented pre-
1ecesscr, President Mckinley, stated
the time he'd come for the Ma
lion to care for the graves of the
Confederate dead | recommend that
he Congress take action towards this
end. The first need is to take charge
the Graves of the Confederate dead
.yho died in Northern prisons.
immigration.
The question Of immigration is of
NIldl .ut6i - " III IL IN
year ending June 80, 1905, there came
the United States 1,026,000 alien
~mmigrants. In other words, in the
single year hat has just elapsed
here came to this country a greater
number of people than came here
Turing the one hundred and sixty
nine years of our colonial life which
interviewed between the first landing
1t jamestown and the Declaration OF
Independence. 1t is clearly shown in
he report of the CommiSsiOner-Gen-
eral of immigration that while much
# his enormous immigration is UNI
ioubtedly healthy and natural, a con
proportion is undesirable
rom one reason or another; more
a considerable proportion of it,
probably a very large proportion, in
most of the undesirable class
not come here of it's own inl-
iative, but because of the activity
If the agents of the great tr~ansporta-
ion companies. These agents are
distributed throughout Europe, and
W the offer of all kinds of induce
nents they wheedle and caiole many
often against their hest
to come here. The most ser
GUS obstacle We have to
n the effort to secure a proper reg
llation of the Immigration to these
.hores arises from the determined op
of the foreign steamship
who have no interest whatever
n the matter save to Increase the
,eturns on their capital by carrying
masses of immigrants hither in the
teerage quarters of their ships.
AS I said in my last Message TO
he Congress, we can not have 100
much immigration of the right sort
nd we should have none whatever
If the wrong sort. OF course 1T is
desirable that even the right kind of
nn.io.ntion chO11ld he ~nrOnerlY dis