Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-29
Clark Takes Side Of
 Homesteader In Speech

f for bona fde settlers ought to. he
 made as easy as possible. Applause ] ! The home is the unit of American civ. ! ilization, and the more homes We have
 the better for the republic. The pc | culiarities under which this bill is | presented here are these: With the ! rich soil of the state from which my
 distinguished friend Mir. Mann, O: [ Illinois, comes. or of Missouri, from which 1 hail just as quickly as a farmer could get the land plowed Cp he could make a living upon it, and
 he could make a living on very few acres. [ believe that Secretary Wilson tells the exact truth when he says that if the Mississippi Valley were cultivated for all it is worth an an average 1 acre of land would support one human being. That would give us a population of 1,250, ,OO0,OOO souls be. tween the top of the Alleghenies and the crest of the Rockies. But these lands about which the proposition is made in this bill that the period Of residence shall be cut from five to three years are not like the lands of Missouri and Illinois The pick and choice of those lands have been taken ls to make a living out there on the l60 acres of that dry land. l once helped the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr Kinkaid) get a bill through here to increase the size Of homestead in the western part of the state of Ne Lraska from 160 acres to 640 acres, and the passing of the bill added a new word to the vernacular of the people out there. The people who en- tered the $40 acre hoInesteads are called "Kinkaiders'' all over the state Of Nebraska. (Applause.) It is i'm. possible, l believe. in a good many cases for a man to make a living on I50 acres of this dry land for five years, the required period under the general law, and be able to support his wife and children while he is itv- ing on it during the five years. I am in favor of cutting t down to three years, and I believe by doing so We will render not only the homesteaders but all people of the United States very valuable service
 To me the most painful feature of the day in which we live is to see a constantly increasing stream of the very best American citizens of th.S country going to Manitoba and Al- berta. On one day in my country, one Of the richest and largest and most beautiful counties under the sun. 4 families loaded up an entire freight train, as much as one Of these biz engines could pull. chartered the train. every one of them in a sleeping car. ani pulled out for Alberta.
 There was not man amongst then who was not fairly well to do. Anoth- CT man in my district sold his farm for S2G,0o0 and his stock and other valuable assets ran the sum up 10 about 4C,O00. He moved 10 Manitoba and entered or purchased 10,O00 acres of that land up there lie gave to each one of his eight children 1000 acres, keeping 2.00O acres for himself That is the kind of American citizens who are leaving this country and going to the British Northwest The imE'i- grafton agent up there estimates that every American citizen who goes OV'r there carries with him, on an average, SI 900 ! am in faFor of fixing 1t sO that no American citizen will want 10 depart from the United States to Sc cure d home in a foreign land.