The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-02-03

| Legislature appropriated $50 900 to re-
| fund these sums which the books show
were justly due citizens of Texas. |
would not permit any favored firm to
"enjoy a monopoly OF this refund bust
| ness" by virtue of some peculiar re"
| lation to the land office. The money
| is theirs, and all that is necessary Is
| that the Comptroller issue a warrant
upon the certificate OF the Land Com
| missioner, which certificate I would
have prompt ly made out without the
citizen creditor having to pay (as the
last few years. so per cent or any sum
for its collection.
I believe that the lands on this side
of the Pecos have been leased far too
low, while for the leases west of the
Pecos have been demanded prices as
much too high. AS the law fixes the
minimum lease at &c and the minimum
price at which land can be sold at 81,
and the interest rate cents, it is clear
that it was intended land should be
leased at 3 per cent of its value just
as the interest on sales is 3 per cent on
the deferred payments. SO cents for
lease Of 81 land and 4 and 5 cents for
81 to s. land is as unjust as it is UNI
business-like; and a demand of to Is
cents per acre from a purchaser who
develops and improves land similar
and equal to land leased for 4 and 3
cents per acre is a discrimination and
undemocratic, particularly when the
university and railroads are able te
49,;
leases east of the Pecos,
Another discrimination which is
peculiarly Of this new law, is the re-
quirement that the home seekers must
recklessly bid In competition with eacp
other and all others for land they
would improve and make more valua-
BILE to the state, while the lessee and the
sub-lessee pick out their eight sections
and take them under the "prior-righ
clause without competition from any
source, merely paying the fair value"
placed thereon by the Commissioner
The lessee, himself would hardly have
asked such an advantage. If the in
ferior land in these large leases must
be sold by competitive bids at a price
above the value fixed by the Commits
sioner as a minimum, why should the
choice lands be sold at their value
without competition? I would favor
one rule for all applicants. The state
prohibits lotteries. slot machines and
other like gambling devices, and yet
invites and encourages the gamblins
spirit In the matter Of her citizens
buying a home out OF school lands
when the late law requires them Il
D. hid blindlv for land. the location o
Z which can only be- remotely guessed.
% believe. too. that the timber land
% have been ruthlessly suuaudered TO tn
detrmeut of tho school fund The tim
ber iu virgin pine forests has been sol
r. for 81 To- So per acre. gul the pa,
u Three years MS low as s. and So sue
do timber iu the hands of private parti'
.e is worth 81 TO- So per acre while n
d, United States government secur
,o even greater price FOR pine timbt
~ In this way the school fund has he'
~ deprived ~ nearly two million dolla
'e which u1s gone az profits geo t.v lumb
'. trust
I b,liy,, firmly in ths Democrat
we principle ~ rotation Boo Office. and
f rho doctrine Of Jefferson That frrqus
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