Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-03

the government mas bttu Gbpltia ] u
will be a little over a year. according
to the report of the senate public
lands committee. And after the land
is all goneIafter the horse mas neen
mittee will awaken from its KIP van
Winkle slumbers and close the stable
door with a bang.
Some Things to Do.
Before l close l wish TO specify
some definite and speclnc things which
should be done.
tlrst-Repeal the timber and stone
act.
S~econd-Pass the consolidation bill
putlIng the government forests under
Inc management OF Tue bureau OF Tor
estry.
Tnird-Provide by national legisla-
tion That every acre OF ltufa
land that can be reclaimed under the
national irrigation system must De
saved for the homemaker VINO VIII go
there and make a home upon II
In that way you can break up the
timber combinatIons, and in that way
only; because the land thieves OF
North Dakota, unuer the comm tation
clause; the land thieves oil Montana,
under the desert laud act, the land
thieves under the timer and stone act
in-well, perhaps l might be permitted
to mention Oregon (laughter) are
working together. You viii have TO
explode some OF those japanese shells
among them to break up the comDI-
nation.
TO show you why we cannot depend
) upon congressman from the timber
| states of the west to correct this enor-
nous evil, a year ago both oregon
senators and both IatlVes
from Oregon were bitterly opposed TO
any change in the land laws. Repre-
sentatives and Williamson
both went before the committee and
protested against any change Mr..
Hermann was before the com mlttee.
Al that exact mOmen the oregon
grand jury was in session in the city
| If parTlan1 rom InEEI nI men drawn
by lot from all over the state, and that
grand jury urged the repeal of all
those laws-the tmber and stone act,
the desert land act and the
ton clause-and sent u to
the public lands committee to that et-
feet. Now the grand jury has mad
some business with Mr.. hermann since
tnat time. daughter and a~pplduseJ
In all those western states the state
has the power to form districts Tor
local public improvements. such as IT.
i rigatiOn districts, sanitary districts,
drainage districts or levee districts,
! and l for one do not believe tnaI that
is the right policy that the national
government should assume the burden
of protecting from IRE forests now
owned by men who have gotten them
from the government for one-tenth Of
their value. The state and nation
should cooperate to form forestry
districts and have assessments levied
on all private lands in the district, and
every acre should contribute its pro-
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from fire. tApplause.)
There is one more thing that / was
going to urge as a mere matter OF per-
sonal opinion. In akin the sugSes-
ton l do not speak for California or
for the National Irrigation Associa-
ton. but for myself alone. l nave
my earlier years advocated the repub-
lican doctrine of a tariff for protection
in many political campaigns in my ma
tive state of California from the Or
| a1on line 10 MpNipO. but because i be-
lieve in preserving our Industries and
not in destroying them l believe that
in order to preserve the forest INDUS,
tries of this nation we should repeal
every tariff law i'm posing a tariff upon
the products of the forest, whether
timber or wood or wood pulp, at any
rate for a limited number of years and
until we shall have planted forests
enough to harvest annually from our
own forests all the wood and timber
we may use in any one year.
There are a numbe of other things
that l have in my mind to suggest
that ought to be done:
Pass the Appalachian BILL
One is to pass the Appalachian for
estry bill, which is ready TO be passed
Another is to stop now and for all
reserves for other lands. If the gov
eminent needs any such land let it buy
them and pay for them their fair value
and no more. All lieu land scrip
no more ever issued under any circum-
stances. The forest lieu land ex-
change law should be repealed.
The bill providing for the ~consolida-
ton of the government forestry inter
ests is ready to be passed by the
senate and should be passed in this
session of congress. Tt has already
passed the house; and If this session
of adjourns without the bill
being passed by the house which has
passed the senate, repeating the tim
Der and stone act, every member or
the public lands committee ought to be
held up TO popular obloquy and
whipped at the carts tail with a lash