Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-23

willing to have his air used as Il high
way; but he doesn't have to give a rea-
son-he can show his deed. and tell tie
whole world to go toto the captains
! office and settle. Your Honors, ] ad-
jur3 you to cling to your unbroken prece-
dents, and upohld property. on which so-
ciety is based. 10 say that VIC
do not own these strips of
air. is f~oolishness of the damphest sort.
The landowner may sell the surface anG
keep the minerals; Dr. sell the mineral
rights down to China, and keep the
surface. Our grantors owned and sold
these rights to us. 1t is slanderous to
say thai we nave hornswoggled-to coin
a phrase-the farmers by promising
cheap nitrates by the Craighead method.
1t is my intention to take a few mo-
ments some day to perfect the Craig
mead method, and begin to extract nj
trogen-but that is another narrative.
The point is that we've got those rights.
| We have what nobody ever had before
the proof that defendants pass over our
lands, because they have to. Nobody
else ever had lands henmins in every
body. We have. This makes Il proof
simply pie: II we call upon YOU to
protect us, in the name of the law of
landownership. on which every govern
ment IN all the world is founded.
''They say we seek to enslave travel
ers. This absurdity applies as forc1bly
to surface rights or mines. If the a
eler can't pay our scale, let him so by
public highways. or by boa or rails-or
stay az home; just as the man who
wants to use LAND and has none. may
nav rent or get off the earth. We may
do as we will with our own space: allow
il to be used, or hold it for speculation.
We anticipate that rights to air-navl-
cation will became more and more valu-
bile We expect to charge whatever
the situation makes possible. This is as
moral as increasing rem for lands. We
shall grant licenses or not, as we please.
We may demand title to all patents on
airship inventions before allowing them
TO be used, thus applying the rules you
and your predecessors have so wisely
laid down. He who owns land, owns 10
the sky, How beautiful the principle!
What a stimulus to enterprise II offers
in cornering space, How it serves the
beneficent designs of Providence and
the common law, hat hose in whose
hands TITS planet has been placed BY
Omnisciencc, may build up those arts
tocracies of intellect and morals
and power. that he possession
or lands always fosters! \ decision
against us would subject all of you 10
impeachment. BY getting hold of these
rights first we have proved that we are
of the elect. And the children II the
children's children of the rest of man
kind will have the priceless privilege
of navigating the air granted TO them
nv mlr children and our children's chill
dren-on proper terms, your honors. on
nroner terms, to be fixed by the owner.
Our getting of these rights may be a
horse on Mr.. Shayne; but the rules OF
The same-and what a game it is, your
honors,-give us the pot. The costs
constitute the kitty. Those who are on
the inside, but not of us elect. are the
boosters. The policeman and public
ofrcer is the lookout. And whenever
anyone starts to beat the owners of the
layout-the ~land-You'd better copper
his bet and play him 10 lose. ! have
made a specially OF these things