The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-10-30

tenn we have had a sufficient lesson
upon that to know and to understand
its baneful effect The Caroiinas hav.
ing been settled two hundred years
ago before such thing as soil science
was known or knowledge of how %
| preserve the soil and retain its fertil-
/ lty, their once fertile hills and val
\ leys are now but wastes, and that
section requiring an expenditure of
ten million dollars annually TO replen-
I ish The soil every time the farmer at.
tempts TO make a crop. This drain OF
len million annually can never be re-
/ gained to them We do not want
repetition of such a policy in Okla
homa. Unquestlonably the wise pol
| icy is 10 sell them in reasonable sized
blocks to actual home owners. who
will preserve the soil ara build ii up
| enriching the state and becoming
| fixture in our civilization. Mr. Ames
! lin his article, as well as others. have
suggested thar Q home owner is Nc
/ better than tenant Politically
( speaking that Is true. In the makeup
OF society and morals that Is true. bat
| the mainsiay OF society OF any state
or any country arc the home owners
/ A country becomes weak IN proportion
l to The decrease I'm the number of home
] owners compared with the total popu.
| lailon and The amount Of land and on
/ The other hand a country becomes
! strong in proportion 20 the Increase
OF home owners. compared win the
total population and the amount OF
/ land All irealises on civil govern
ment and experience and all history
/ teach his doctrine However, intelli
gent. patriotic or strong a race maA
| be destruction Of their homes Is a de
siruction of that race. The Irish is
La notable example OF this principle
Since William the Conqueror swept
over the British isles in 1868 prorat
ed The lands Of tbat country among
few lords and then enacted code
Of fixed laws wlth primOgeniture tc
govern the descent and distributiOi
OF their land whereby the eldest child
should inherit them. has produced 3
! landlcrdism in Ireland SO great and SO
dsastrous in It's wake as to excite
the sympathy OF the civilized world for
a thousand years.
II Is the pride and boast OF every
American that our forefathers abol
ished the law of prlmogeniture; 50
estates can deacepd TO all the children
and thus death divide estates Where
in does n home owner benefit the
state beyond that of a tenant? In
this: In political strife, and in the ef
fort OF honest men TO establish hon
est government with a system of wise
and wholesome laws which restrain
men from iniuring one another the
tenant becoming weary; finally gives
up in despair and says: 81 will quii
The fight and leave the country before
win endure this hardship any long
crr While the home owner is a fix
ture and whether he is disgusted ana
likes the contest or not he is compell.
ed To stay with his home and fight the
battle ON behalf of society, his home
and Ns country, and this eternal Wig
lance on HE part OF the man who
owns the home but abandoned by the
man who does not own his home Is
he one thing that makes The home
owning country stronger than the
country Of tenants. ! deny besides
than these lands will bring more AT
the end OF forty years than now. Much
of this land Is unimproved and Will
De opened for new home owners This
iAAM VIII UlAln ItNAt NlAAA tN
by lease than Il would bring a the
end of forty years il leased for thG
time II must be remembered also
thai during q period Of forty years
retention ii would bring no revenue
Ito the state IN taxation, and unless
leased out TO be cultivated IL would
bring the state no revenue and II
leased out 10 be cultivated the les
see must be given the preference
right as stated above Suppose we
admit, however, that az the end OF
Inc forty years these lands viii double
i'm value even after considering the
waste lets figure Il from stand
point Of business and see what wlll be
the result Suppose we estimate Them
10 De worth thirty million dollars now,
tMr Ames' esiimale), and il retained
10 the end of forty years they would
be worth sixty million. This I deny,
but for the sake of argument let 81
stand aud figure the balance sheet
al the end Of forty years, Then We
wOuld have double valuation, aegre
eating sixty million dollars. Added
to this the land brought In f905 p
cents per acre. let us estimate that
il would be raised 80 cents an acre
during the next forty years FOR ca h
year That would give a total OF s62.
1l5.00l for forty years. making forty
wears hence an aggregaie Of $92 l75,-
900 Rcmemher during all this time
there would be no taxes paid on these
lands and the sum would be the whole
of the property. Let as sell now and
witness another balance sheet. 10 In
clude the Interest and taxes paid dur
Ing the next forty years a the end
81 the period we would have the prin-
cipal OF $50 100000; we would have
the interest az per cent per annum
on the principal making for for;r
years $G0.000O00 IN interest. We
would have In taxaden upon The land
sold. starting With $4,000. GEO valua-
zion next year and ending with sea-
100000 at tho eud OF Forty years. max
ing q general average for ihe whole
period Of $4,000 coo Now estimate
the tax az % mills per apnum and ID
gives YOU an aggregate sum received
in tayes Of s45O00 600 Now add the
principal s3O.0j0O0o, 10 the interest.
s600l0000 to the tax received. s45.-
100000 ana the total ankles sl35 .000.-