Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-05-23

t,uiCo tht iahiHy vi oSHoois, III VI Iuci "
reclaim these lands, which as it lies
there is wholly worthless, which serves
no one and pays no taxes to the gov
ernment. 1t is dry, barren soil. Of
tentimes for several seasons you can
not raise crop until the soil becomes
settled and compact. | have seen a
crop planted today, and tomorrow it
might be 10 miles away, blown thither
by the Enthusiastically blown out of
the ground. The settler must not only
build his house and make his improve
ments, clear the land of sage-brush,
but he must either build a ditch at
heavy expense, Or pay more heavily
for others TO build it for them. assert
that no man reclaims this land who
does not pay every dollar it is worth in
the labor which he must expend in do
ing SO.
"No man gets title to homestead or
d essert entry who does not give evil
dence hundred times over OF his good
faith, or his bona fides as settler and
home bnilder. Men who talk glibly
about giving these men homes do not
know the facts. These men by their
labor and their sacrifices have changed
our worthless arid waste into tax-pay-
ing and valuable properties, but they
have paid for them in their labor.
What does this government have these
lands for--for jack rabbits and for
coyotes or for men? II for men, is not
he good citizen to be commended
and not condemned who takes such
property and makes it by his own ef-
fort a valuable estate. Would you have
your lands lie idle while your citizens
crowd more and more into effort a
valuable estate? Would you prefer to
continue to increase the number Of
consumers and decrease the number of
producers? DO you want less food and
more to consume it? look upon the
man who seeks to make an acre pro-
ductiyc which was not productive be-
fore, not only as good citizen himself,
but as distinct benefactor to his fellow
men. He is the man who is going TO
solve the question OF the hign cost of
living II il is ever solved. These men
ought TO be encouraged instead OF dis
couraged by every petty. rule and regu-
lation which The meddlesomc impu-
dencc OF suspicion can throw about
4 them.
II is beyond my comprehension Mr..
President, how any man with the
slightest quivcrings Of conscience or
the faintest conceptions OF what il takes
70 make n great people and great re-
public can do other than encourage
and seek in every way to make success
ful the efforts OF the family which cuts
loose from friends and neighbors and
schools and goes out in these places for
the purpose of satisfying the noblest
cravings OF man as social being,
his cravings for home. This settler
takes that which is worthless as it lies
there in the arid desert and makes il a
home-and this government now and
for years has put upon him the sus-
picion Of crime, the Surveillance and
annoyance which it does not even
throw around its professional criminals
who infest society. The executive Off.
GERS Of this government with their
hired spies have hunted the homestead
er, leered upon him as he left his soil.
tary lodging, watched his coming and
going like Javert upon the trail OF Jean
Val Jean until il has ceased to be endur
able any longer. Talk about these men
not being law abiding. II they wert