The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-04-19


tect these funds
Fourth As stated, would not
charge more than five per cent in
tcrcst-t three or four is enough
Fifth. ! would give the lessee an
equity in all of his improvements.
an equity In the right to buy the
quarter section improved by him il
he will pay as much as any other
man. II he cannot pay as much as
any other man. then let the other
man, or the state, pay him for his
Improvements
"Sixth I would not sell. as stated
before. any land for grazing purposes
until the end OF the ten year period
for the reason that If you trust the
appraisers as provided by that bill.
providing for forty per cent agri.
culture. you can sell as much as
section of lend for grazing want
TO say that when you do that you
will get appraisers who will 20 over
this county and will value some of
the best farming lands We have as
grazing lands because some fellow
wants that particular piece OF land
II you take that away and give the
farmer the opportunity to appraise If
by saying Go take It, any quarter
YOU can find, as long as there is
any left, he will pretty soon know
whether he can occupy that quarter
and produce a wing upon that quar-
ter or not. | state as fundamental
truth, the man who can not make
living on quarter section OF land
will go broke trying to cultivate
more with hired labor. Many may not
have more than twenty acres and
with that twenty acres he could put
stock upon the other grow strawber.
ries and with other diversified crops
that will grow all over this country,
could make living out of It. and
would be glad of the opportunity to
get IL. that would establish
new home In our midst We
know how gladdened the house.
hold when a new born babe ar
Iives-it gladdens { t heart of the
mother of the father and of the
whole community. My friends, We
should be equally as glad when we
can look in our midst and see new
family owns that home because II
Is unit of our republic as much
as that baby is unit of the family
At the end OF the ten year period we
could enlarge the acreage for sale
when we found there was not quar-.
ter left for farm home. Then we
could say. Go and take a half sec
tion, letting the farmer appraise 1t
as to whether il is or not fit for the
farm home and only fit for the stock
man. Now, doubtless this move may
| take somebody's breath, but my
friends, am here representing or
trying to represent to the best OF my
| ability, not only the citizenship of
my own county. but the citizenship
of the whole state and those who
might stihe the lessee on one side
and public policy on the other, but
that looks in and affects the future,
the true statesman, Is he who does
not stop to consider only the effects
of today, but looks into the future
will have an hundred years hence.
With this in view, do | plead for
this method OF the selling OF the
schools lands.
81 would not for a moment vote
for the sale OF the school lands in
this state-as heartily as | have It
advocated since the days of the CON
sttutional convention up to now
with provisions that would permit the
sale of that land in large bodies far
better had We keep it; far bet
ter that the state should make
tenants of its citizens than TO per.
NIT corporations to make tenants of
them. You m'v ask what would we
do with the lands that are grazing
lands, among which these homes
were taken up? Readily and easily
could we rent these lands for graz.
ing purposes on an annual lease to
the man to settle among them, Civ.
ing opportunity TO some other man
hunting home to come in to that
country and settle upon quarter and
make his application to the commits
sioners OF the land office and take
possession at the end of that year
or the end Of the lease, and thus
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