The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-23

 ernment, If not the state, go a step further? A large percentage of inn migrants land at our great ports Of entry with insufficient money to en- able them to push out west or to the southwest. Shall I. who have been broadly conservative, be regarded as preaching paternalism, or as social istic in my purpose, when suggesting that the duty of the national govern ment may be found in providing, un- der proper safeguard, a fund which may be used to make loans of suit able amounts to enable this thrifty and frugal class of people to loca:e their homes under the government irrigation plants?
 Does the duty or the state lie in the care of her indigent and needy? Does her duty lie in the enlightn- ment of her ignorant? Is her duty found in the proper protection of her people by creating sudh laws as to protect her citizens in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Then, inquire, does not the states duty lie along the lines of making such wholesome provision for that part of her true. tthough money-poor peo- pie, as to obtain homes on the land, thereby creating a truer and nobler citizenship, and whereby we shall re- quire Hess almshouses and jails and prisons?
 q believe this to be one of the most important subjects that can oc- cupy the serious attention of ~ the people of the United States at large and by their state legislatures and the National Congress at Washing ton.
 ''Now. as I have said, we have the Immigration Bureau, whose duty it Is to point out the land for the land less man. But, we should supply by national legislation the missing link in this vital economic chain, by pro viding for these worthy immigrant farmers the money on reasonable time and at low rate of interest payment to be secured upon their purchases of the pubic domain or irrigated or dry farming lands, as the farmer may prefer
 ITO this end advocate that the government provide an Immigration Land Fund to be placed under the care and direction of the Secretary of the Interior. That he shall m coniunction with the immigration Bureau inaugurate such machinery as is needful to select and determine as to frugal and worthy immigrant farmers. Those farmers who small choose irrigated lands shall be placed urder the care of the Reclamation Service. and those who desire to To- cate on dry lands shall be under the care of the Secretary of Agriculture for arranging their settlement upon the lands so chosen.
 q expect that some proper ar rangement couid be made by our government with dhe governments abroad so that those farmers who purpose coming to the states could have their standing yizied by some proper official in the country of their nativity. This Immigration Land Fund should be revolving in cnar- acter. of reasonable size at the out set and suitably enlarged as time matured and the plan was discovered as eminently wise. 1 trust that the officers of the Nineteenth National Irrigation Congress convenang In Chicago in December next VIII give all possiAe attention 10 this lau6- able plan, and that when the con gress oonvenes, suitable action VIII be taken to impress upon our people and our government the great im- portance of having this idea cry lstallized into definite and workable form.