Gunnison news-champion., 1907-03-08
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for, ostside II the GI~nwood Ava
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in Rou.t cosaty. mt single sheet
in Colorado supported our poslt'on.
1t is with pardonsble pride that we
note practically every paper If the state
not excepting the great Denver
dallie~ relteratlng the same argu-
ments aud POINTING TO the same dan
xers we mentioned here when the
movement started. 1t is To lie re-
GREETED that a lew hide bound re-
publ,can pspers, cemen,ed to the
administration by the power Of land
Office notices, should still deliberate
" support a policy which is send
ing = dozen homeseekers to Canada
where one cowses To Colorado. A pol
icy which however beautiful in theory.
10 opposed TO the best interests Of
our community and our state.
We have frequently been accused
Of opposing all forest reserves. How
ever, our readers will agree, that
such has not been the position Of
the News Champion at any time.
We bslisve in properly co~dscssd
Psssgvss bSs sss ep,ras1 - . esrP<t
hae eovss~ment whetkes in the
SOsth, in the Philippines or in Colo
rsdo. The forest reserves must be
given local self government The
absurd, UnAmeric.n and vicious
regulations must be modified. The
reserves must be limited TO actual
timber or TO land that the depart
nsnt proposes Immediately to plant
to forests. And last, but most i'm
portant, every foot Of the national
domain mWst bs open at any and all
times to the actual settler under
bene6cient laws that will aid him
in rsclaiming the desert and not a.
at present throw every restriction
that human ingenuity can devise in
his path. On the Aoor of the senate
last week Senator Patterson well ex-
pressed the situation when he said
that it now took a qnasi-millionaire
TO succeed in getting homestead
on the reserves.
One OF the c'osing acts OF con-
gress provided that no more reserves
should beestablished without spec ic
act of the Legislative body. 1t is too
bad this was not passed before some
thing over three quarters of Gunni-
son county was gobbled bv the Pin
chot grass and lumber trust.
later Word comes that Roo.e-
welt in defiance of the expressed in
tention of the representatives of the
people has arbitrarily added seven
teen million more acres to these re-
serves bv signing the order for their