The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-22
DRIVING OUT AMERICANS.

the Dominion because of the land IN
Canada has no conservation lad which
denies TO settlers on any part OF the
public domain the use OF the lands, the
water powers, or the forest lands, An
that settler in Canada has to do IN
order to get title to land is to settle
upon it, cultivate it. and make 1t a
part of the taxable wealth of the coun-
try.
Canada has been SO successful in get
ting American settlers by ITS hbcral
land policy. that Australia is now max
ing a bid for American settlers. Inc
Australian government has chartered
steamer with bertbs for 900 passengers,
| which is expected To sail from san
Francisco in the spring with 800 Amer
! lean bomcscckcrs tn whom free lands
are offered in Australia. y very low
| fare for the trip ia offered TO prospect
i've settlers, and, if the results of this
pioneer trip are successful. other cNcur-
sIons will he arranged, with the posi-
bility of regular service between
San Francisco and Melbourne for the
colony trade. The special desire of
| Australia is. to get farmers who have
| had experience in irrigation and dry
| farming, since Australian conditions IN
| many parts Of that vast region are prnc-
! tically the same ~ in the arid region
| of America Hence the rendezvous at
| San Francisco, and the invitation to
| settlers from the West TO take part
in this Australian colonization. In The
! Wimmcra district of Australia a colony
has recently been founded after tho
| California methods, with 100000 acres
under irrigation. The effort Of Aus.
tralia to get American settlers is of
course. stimulated primarily by the sue
cess of Canada in that Same direction,
and is helped by our conservation pol
icv of driving settlers off the forest re.
serves, Withdrawing from the market
largo areas of agricultural lands under
prctcnse that they arc coal lands. for
est lands, or arc necessary in order to
reserve water power sites To such an
extreme has this excluding of settlers
from the public domain gone, that VIC
have recently seen the warning OF a
forest superintendent in Southern Cali.
| fornIa that no one must go on the for
est reserves without A special permit
from him. This is satrapy and bureau.
cracy in its most arbitrary and insoIcnt
| form.
No wonder the Pinchot conservation
| policy has attracted indignant comment
on all parts of the newer regions
Of the United States, In pursuance of
giving expression to this public lndigna,
ton, The Tribune gives space to the
following communication received re-
Gently on the subject:
Salt Lake City, January 10
Editor Tribunc:-Gifford Pinchot has
| been TO Alaska. at least this astounding
fact seems somewhat in evidence. Gif-
presence upon the actual soils Of that
| far Off Territory for few DAYS, and
| therefore inc. being Clifford Pinchot
| knows all about the needs OF Alaska and
| a great man like he, coming from tho
| far-off Down East" should know jus,
| how 10 advise our Government as to how
to administer the affairs OF the bcnight-
| Of our Governments possessions,
| Who bnt a great man like Clifford Pin
| chot would condcscend TO criticise poor
official like Mr.. Ballingcr was when he
as the u. S, laws required him 10 do
| refused 10 give any homestcader OF any
other applicant titlc to his entry unti
| an official survey was on record?
| What is the use OF having laws, any
way. when such men as Clifford Pincho,
! can be sccuredI Men who think only oi
the dear great grandchildren and are OBJ
! livious entirely OF the needs of the pio-
| neers OF today!
What rights has pioneer anyway
| Quite true II Is that We practically stole
! most or the Western lands from the poor
| Indians and therefore our Nations title
| itself 10 those said lands Is none toe
| good: but We didn't steal Alaska, wc
! bought II from Russia, OF course. RUS
sia may have stolen VI from someone
| but that is not our affair. II is ours
| now, but for heavens sake don't give
| II away TO any grasplnG pioneers; lcts
| bottle II up for monument to such great
patriots as Clifford Plnchot'
| Land hunger be hanged: let the boys
| who want TO really own land go 10 Can
| ada, just as they have been doing now
| for several years. What do We care for
them or for the money they will pay out
| as taxes in the years to come, just sc
we can he assured that our posterty vii
all have a farm and a coal mine apiece
| What sad thing IL is that our Nation
| in the past could not have had the publ,
L
ZIONIST like Mr.. Pinchot. for then Tho
| Middle West might still be reserved foi
posterity and the dear prospective grand
| children could then be assured uf A Cou-
| pie of homeste3ds apiece and with a Goa
| mine or two thrown in,
| Only 2s5.0o0 homeseelSers from the
| United States last year went 10 Canada
| lrr search OF lands, and they only took
| an average Of the paltry sum Of Sl50f
| each with them 10 invest there. but what
is such an item as that TO the magic
! word Conservation?
| In oldcn times mankind worked. hoped
| lived. dreamed in the ono great desire
| 'To own land: yes. ''to own II from
| grass 10 the bowels Of the earth. yes
| and strangely. few men exist even tods y
| tina, are AT all willing TO undergo tho
| risks and hardships OF pioneering. unless
| they can hope In the end. to actually own
! the land they have found and made val
! liable.
| why is It that the cost of living is SC
! high? II IL not because too few OF oui
| people are taking up the vacant lands
| Water power unless used TX little less
| than a theft from the settlers who need
| Il now.
| How many Indian tepces would toda,
! be sprinkied over tho area now covered
| by the great city Of Spokane II some
| craspine monopoly had not filed on the
| go