The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-21

BILE for q tenant, q half slave, to be
the tenant of a private owner than of
the government.
The Canadian nation is holding out
its hands and beckoning our people to
come to them for homes. Three huh
bred thousand in five years have gone
to that country and its home lands and
good land laws.
1T seems to me that every moment
that has been made in the last ten
years has made it more difficult to get
a home. The settler must live on it
for five years but he can't live OFF it.
That there have been and will b e
frauds in any system / don't deny.
But have we nae any considerable
amount of fraud in comparison with
the wrongs in the administration of
the laws? A proper administration of
the interior department will always
and has in the past-prevented n
considerable amount of fraud.
"f the government of the United
States does its duty the coal land will
be returned as coal land and aiken as
coal land. 1t is within the power of
the executive department to segregate
the lands when they are surveyed. If
the executive department of the gov
eminent does not do so it is not the
fault of the people.
State Rights Declaration.
"I am intensely interested in main
tanning for this state what belongs to
it as a sovereign state. The first decla-
ration for state rights was made in
New England, and only later in the
South. Has the state certain rights
that the general government must re-
spect? The supreme court has declar-
ed, in a most emphatic manner. that
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not to the general government-but
to the state. 1t may be true to some
extent that we have depleted the for
ests. can remember when there
were great pine forests in Pe1nsylva-
mia They have rome. They have
made homes, and thriving towns and
cities. With all the c~onveniences of
civilization instead of forests are we
not better off?
care lot men better than trees?
81 don't believe there is an acre
from which the lumber has been tax
en-, but that it has gone into better
ments for the men who occupy the
lane and better it.
"You can't nave advancement, civil
lization, betterme1ts, homes in forests
You must not maintain barbarism or
a half civilized state, wher advance
ment is desired. If the timber ever
does go the ingenuity of m a will find
a substitute.
Goal is said to be going too. 1t is
predicted hat in $500 years all u
coal will be gone. Uaughter.)
Then we will have electricity or
some other substitute. But this ques-
ton waits advancement and prosperi-
ty even at the risk of not having coal
in $500 years from now.
Mysteries are the trouble. If the
word was not Objectionable 1 would
apply it in the characterization of
the governments cry about courts.
There is more fraud in Il misappro-
priatfon of the law by the departments
of the government.
1--WE do not want the landlord sys-
tenn. We will not have 1t. We want
a chance to build a school house. a
church nearby. We want a chance
for neighbors to come and build.
When the government shall be
working the millions of acres of Goa
lands in these states it will be a curse
and not a blessing. Taking our re-
sources away from the people of the
state, we cannot ever tax the lands.