Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-02

I to find out their needs and desires anu
! then to try to put them into enect. bu1
/ they mus. take trouble. must look aheau
, to their own ultimate and real good. mus ~.
: insist upon being really Represented ny
their public men, II we are TO nav
gBbd result A little while ago receiveo
! a yery manly and sensible letter from one
! of. the prominent members OF the Lar
annie County, Wyo., Cattle and Horse
| Growers Association. My correspondent
remarked incidentally in his letter, ai,
! a small ranchman. and have 10 piow anu
| pitch hay myself" and then went on 10
say that the great majority of thcir pao-
..ple had complied with the government VI,
| der: had removed their Ienoes anu sun
, their cattle. but that they must Set SONS
kind Of lease law which would permit
them to Craze their stock under proper
conditions or else it would be ru!nous 70
them to continue in the business Inc
thing 1 have most at heart as REGARDS inns
subject is to dc whatever Will be OF per
rlanent benefit to just exactly the people
for whom the correspondent OF mine
spcke-the small ranchnen VINO nave 70
plOw and pitch hay themselves All
want to do is to find out what Will be to
their real benefit. for that is certain to DO
to the benefit of the country as u Whoie
! 1t nay be that we can secure their IN
tcrests best by permitting all homsteaders
in the dry country to inclose, individually
or Il certain number of them together,
big tracts of range for summer use, mo
tracts being proportioncd TO the number
run their cattle upon il. 1t may be that
parts of the range will only be valuable
| for companies that can lcas" it and put
large herds on it; for the way properly
to develop region is to put 1t TO those
uses to which it is best adapted The
amount to he paid for the leasing priv
ileGc is to me Il matter of comparative in
difference The Government does not wish
to make money out of the range. but
simply to provide for the necessary SUI
pervision that will prevent its being eaten
out or exhausted; that is, that will secure
it unchanged as asset for the next
generation. for the children of the pres
ent home makers. OF course we must
also provide enough to pay the proper
share of the county taxes. l am not we'd
ded to any one plan, and / am willing
TO combine several plans if necessary.
But the present system is wrong, and ]
hope to see. in all the States of the Great
Plains and the Rockies, the men like my
! correspondent of the Laramie County
Cattle and Horse Growers Association.
the small ranchmen who plow and pitch
hay themselves" seriously take up this
matter and make their representatives in
Congress understand that there must be
some solution, and that this solution shall
he one which will secure the greatest
permanent well-beins to the actual set
tiers. the actual home makers. l PROM
Use with all the strength l have to CO.
operate toward this end.
Following the address, which was
heard by 10000 persons. the President
was driven to the lower lock of the
government canal and shortly before II
O'Clock boarded the steamer Mississippi
for the trip South. He reviewed the dis
play of 700 launches in the river and de-
parted leading the flotilla of 20 big
steamboats, and launches. The dis
play of boats was the greatest ever
seen on the upper Mississippi
The governors left at noon an a spe-
cial train for st. Louis. Ten special
excursion trains brought in great
crowds just before the President ar
rived and the city was full of strang-
ere
The city Of Kcokuk was decorated in
the most lavish manner in its history
The inland water ways commission ar
rived last night on the steamer Mac
kcn;ic. joining the President at this
city. Before leaving the President was
presented with gold headed cane by
Kookuk negroes. Secretary Loeb left
the party here and will proceed west
from this point to Wyoming, whittier
he will go for a months hunt.