The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-09-13
A LAW PASSED And EXECUTED IN FRAUD.


the valuable timber lands possession Of the government tn
private ownership Of the timber lords The congress that passed tn
the good old ootng days of the Grant administration we
addition division and silence ruled in all public aarsnew tn
purpose Of the perfectly.
For 30 years this purpose showed plainly For 30 years the tim
Der lands increasing quane
from the general the timber ndicae and there
hitch misshe laf conceived fraud administered
fraud
Now and then some oldfahioned governmen
agent unfamiliar with the general plan of the interior department
undertook have the letter OF the law enforced in its alleged intent
All such efforts checked Washington Local officials Of TIL
land Offices held up claim after claim the ground that the entry
acting good faith and that there conspiracy
rob the government timber These officials
invariably oyerred from Washington and their reports pgeonoec
by the interior department
understand perfectly well that the law placed upon thu
could get the timber
cssary The upon contrary
purpose According its provisions these lands could only be aker
parcels Of 16o individual who he
The land for his and not for Of speculation and ac
barganed for its sale in advance of receiving title
Now, million would have any for 160
of timber land be secured stated in the law Therefore the pur
pose Of the of the law stated its provisions
That purpose fraudulent
Now then the forty congress placed this law upon the
boo-and in passing remark the congress possess
ed its share Of bay there do the bidding of the predatory
erestsand its share of umps of the Burton French breed
French having later defended the timber and the poor
mans law gives the poor opportunity make
easy money by perjury What commentary Frenchl
TO The congress that passed the law
tended be the by which the interests served should be
able gobbe up the timber lands and the interior department
10 years has given this construction 0 the law.
We hold that the general government has been defrauded of
single dollar these timber land transactions II has received its
stated price for the land has given the seal Of its approval for so
years the evasion Of the direct letter and alleged spirit Of the law
has breaed the breath Of life into the scarcely yelled purpose Of
congress to hand for nominal the timber lands of the
ton lumber lords and with magnificent Of the
ton the hands of those interests which congress intended should
receive them national administration purposes charge whole
communities with conspaeies defraud the government The
fraud has not been the communities II has been Wash
ngon The fraud promulgated by congress and received for
80 years the sanction of the interior department
The writer knows Of his knowledge that advance of the
ond election Of Grover Cleveland Senator Villas promised the position
Of commissioner Of the general land office S w amouex and
that Grover Cleveland redeemed the pledge Lamoueux proved
himself to be the ab tool Of the timber lords of Wisconsin and
neghborng states and there reform the administration
the timber land laws under Cleveland when the people had right
to expect # ever reversal Of the governments policy
Now then Theodore Roosevelt beneficiary he is Of than
40 Of scarcely broken alliance Of the Republican party with the
predatory interests Of the nation seeks wrea the nations
geance upon few wretched men in the far west.
The timber land states have been unable change the law The
nation has been the grasp of the eastern OF the
stamp Of Adrh and Plat ruling with iron hand the in
terests Of the souless, predatory class.
These gave the lumber barons the law which has permitted
the exploiting Of the nations forests and they have controlled the
department that this purpose could be accomplished The
has been the very fountain head of the frauds would
charge upon the men and women Of the far west
Deeper and far-reacng that other law that making pre-
tense protecting the aboer fills oveowng the Golfers OF the
steel the glass trust the coal and all the vampire breed
that fat high tariff which enables them place upon
their fellows And for which they contribute the corruption
fund to keep the Republican party power
Let Theodore Roosevelt lay the the root Of this nqu and
leave alone those nygd by the government by 80 years Of
administrative policy
Let Theodore Roosevelt strike the undesirable of all our
citizens those who have been the bee6cares of class legislation and
those average have caught
dagnet for simply following than 80 years of precedent eab
lished by the government itself
avery G. Moore in the lmeght That unjust Avery the
meght itself The eugence Of his bancy the brancy Of
his efugence for Idaos glorious climate We dis
pense with the but with Avery The suggestion that he bel