The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-25


rectly attributed to the filibuster or
the shipping bill. At the next session
however, the conservation bills will bt
brought to the frant and, under press
IRE from the White House, doubtless
will be passed This will not be ac-
,complished without a fight, however
as several western senator's have de-
ltermined to make an effort to have the
leasing bills radically amended in or
der that the states may benefit to a
greater extent than under the bills as
intend, if possible, to defeat the leas-
ling system. 1t is conceded, generally,
THAT Notwithstanding western opposi-
ton, there will be votes enough to
lshove through the leasing bills in some
form or other.
Borah Will Be Active.
| 1t is the manifest purpose of west
ern senator's to build up support
among their eastern colleagues, in the
hope of forcing still further eonees-
sions from the administration in the
matter of conservation legislation
Senator Borah of Idaho, who is OPP
posed to the administration bills as
they stand, started the crusade for
eastern cooperation in 4 speech de-
livered recently in Philadelphia In
that speech he sought to give his aud
fence something of the western view
point, and in doing 50, said:
pennsylvania has 2S,SS06 GAO acres
within her borders. In 1910 she had a
population of 1865 Ill In 1912 she
had a total assessed valuation of about
i$6,474,227,59S, This gives an idea of
her great wealth as state and an in
ldication of how you have built up this
commonwealth.
"In Idaho we have a territory with
drawn from use or private entry and
| tied up as forest reserves, HIP, $50
acres, considerably more than half OF
your great state Nearly SO per cent
of our entire state is withdrawn from
entry and use. We can not tax it and
can not impose upon it any of the
burdens of state government We
must, however enforce the crimina
laws of the state over that entire area
The other IS per cent of the state must
pay the burdens of the entire 100 pei
cent. Would you people of Pennsyl-
vania like to experiment with thai
proposition?
Canada Profits.
During the past five years more
than 100000 American citizens have
each year passed into Canada to ac-
quire homes and homesteads. They
are of that class of men who consti-
tute the best there is in American life
because they are state builders, pio-
neers in the development of new coun-
tries, and will in the end furnish food
for the great congested centers of the
| United States.
| 81 assert that 100000 acres with
drawn as forest reservations in my
state at least 100000 acres of 1t would
If permitted to be used, make homes
and constitute successful agricultural
communities. We have no objection
to retaining the other 100000 acres
as forest reserves. But we say that
the inclusion in the forest reserves of
5, 900, 900 acres of agricultural land
while thousands of homeseekers arc
finding homes in another country Is
not conservation; it does not even rise
to the dignity of a well directed stu
Ipidity; it is a crime. ] presume that
condition will continue for a time, but
such stupendous folly will not be per-
mitted after intelligent American peo-
pile come to understand the facts.
Another Burden Imposed.
"In addition to this, it is now pro-
posed to fasten upon every natural re-
source of the west an additional tax
or royalty which will be paid in the
end by the masses Of the people. The
coal, the oil, the mineral, the power
and everything will carry a tax. We
Twill have about II or IS per cent sub.
ject to taxation and upon the people
who cover that IL or Is per cent is to
be imposed another tax wholly UNI
known to you people in the east How
are we to build great commonwealth
in the west under such a proposition
Do you want us to make great com
monwealths or do you want us to be
reduced to colonies ana to landlord
and tenant system? We do not want
the latter and we are not going to have
it. It may take some time tc
demonstrate that fact, but 1t will be
demonstrated in the end
Keeping the Parasites.
"This whole scheme of a leasing ant
royalty system for these few public
land states has its most animated i'm.
petus in a desire to find another anC