Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-26

and the department of justice the
COLLINS would get away with every
thing worth having. There are
other honest men in the service;
there are others quite as efficient as
Kid CLAWS thought himself to be.
His exalted egotism almost took on
the character of brain storm.
More than 80 100000 of public
land have been permanently occupied
under the homestead law. This is
an area greater than all Of New Eng
land and represents >ul1y SIS 900 ,00O,-
900. Where land was granted to the
railroads the government recouped
by doubling the price Of what it re-
tanned. It sold for $3.50 per acre.
where sales were made, instead at
$1.25. Before the homestead law
was passed it offered lands some
times as low as ten cents an acre,
and syndicates would pick them up
and hold for speculation. Several
of the states fooled away their school
lands, notably Iowa, at $1.25 per acre
and lost tie proceeds through bad
investments. Oregon used it's school
lands as the basis of most gigantic
frauds, through its system of lieu
selections. And fortunes have been
! built up through investments in tim
Der lands, but the great bulk of the
agricultural lands went directly into
the hands of the honest settler. af-
ter the passage Of the homestead
law.
Galusha A. Grow, who was the
father Of the homestead law intro
duced the bill in five successive con-
crosses. 1t was blocked by the dem
ocrats in congress until the war
broke out and it was then passed
when he was speaker. The republic
cans in those days were called in de-
rision black republicans because Of
their interest in the suppression Of
slavery.
The people did not forget. And
then we had tariff reform republicans
through whose votes and the forget.
fullness of God the country was turn
ed over to the democrats and the de-
preston of 1893 followed. And now
We have insurgents and progressive
republicans who are sowing the wind
and the country would better pre-
pare to reap the whirl wind If their
schemes work. Fortunately President
Taft has spoken. His great speech
should be printed by the million cop
les and placed in tt e hands Of every
patriotic citizen to read and ponder.
There should be republicans and
those opposed but the galvanized
things that are not either should be
cast out with other things neither
hot nor cold.
North Dakota has never been dis
credited by republicans in Office eth
er at home or abroad. It has pros
pered as no other state has ever pros
pered. Its lands have doubled and
trebled in value. It has been only
necessary to tickle the soil with the
pillow to bring broad smiles to tho
face of the farmers and place fat
pocket books in their hands. They
have no reason to give them more
than that. The interests of the peo-
pie are safe in republican hands. The
leading men Of the party and the ma
ton know that there is danger of the
party losing control of congress
through the disaffection Of the holier
than thou fellows who are seeking
in most instances for personal ad-
vancement, rather than for the ad-
vancement Of national or business in
terests.
The republicans Of the state are
most ably represented by Mr.. McCum.
Der in the senate and Mr.. Hanna in
the house Of representatives. Mr..
Purcell has already stepped to the
front as an able representative of:
the minority
&C. A. l..