The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-02-25


has just been issued, and in it the
Inspector pays his respects To the cons
servation faddists who have succeeded
Ia bottling up the resources Of the
west and thereby continue to retard
Its settlement and development, in the
following extract taken from his all
nual report;
Foresight of Father
1.-The fathers of the original consti
tuition were unquesuonaply right and
far sighted in retaining their soyer-
eighty over these purely local re-
sources on which the individuality and
prosperity of their respective common
wealths had to depend, and which oul
form OF government demands recogni-
tlon of and cannot segregate by self
ish regional discrimination.
THE varying advantage of their
place IN the sun, which the different
states enjoy, is aptly illustrated By
California, whose current and direct
advantage of excess sunshine and it
effect on crop production, combined
with its other local conditions, draws
money like a magnet In the form of
wealthy and well-to- do permanent and
transient residents from other states
There has been no suggestion OF charg-
ing California any tribute to the Older
states for the enjoyment of this local
natural advantage.
Our present able secretary of tn
interior, Franklin K. Lane, is said to
be a native of California and a con-
servationist In my opinion, this able
statesman sizes up like a brand new
gold dollar in comparison to bogus
nickel with his immediate predecessor
IN office in his conception Of the re-
sources Of the western public land
states, but as a conseryationlst in the
present drastic exactions of the fad.
the glitter of ambitions idol must be
the mote in the eye of his natural in
stincts of equity, as no true unbiased
son of the golden west would deprive
the sister states of their relative rights
and privileges and place in the sun
that California enjoys.
Legislature Should Act
I'VE have a man now representing
us in the senate of the United States
at Washington who, according to the
captious critics of the east, ranks
among the upper ZEN of American
statesmen He is big asset in ma
tional affairs at this time, and Idaho's
people are proud Of him, of his ability
and of his laudable ambition. He will
doubtless be there with the proper pro-
test when our melon patch is further
raided by the dscredited political
prophets, vested interests, and Him
formed sentimentalsts of the east in
their effort to permanently ALLEVIATE
our remaining rights to the control of
national absolutism and long-range adj
ministration: in fact there is no other
course for him to pursue. / listened
to the speech of acceptance of our
senior senator, before the 18th Idaho
that they were the executive represen-
tatives of definite unit of the quail
fled and real creators of our national
laws and asked to be supplied with
their desires In this connection and he
would use his own judgment in en-
deavoring to have them executed
There should be no hesitancy on the
part of the successors Of that legis
lative session now assembling to fur
nsh this able representative of ours
with the necessary ammunition for the
protection of our rights and privileges,
and If these matters are given proper
consideration in the prevention of the
prospective further alienation of our
commonwealth, Idaho can enter an era
Of prosperity and progress and make
good in a brilliant way its apt title
of Gem of the Mountain States"
Plan Further Restrictions
"The quality of the further national
control of our local affairs is definitely
forecasted by the recently published
extracts from the annual report of the
present national secretary of agricul-
ture who would tie a red tape around
every remaining tree In Idaho that Is
not already under The surveillance of
federal officer and even extend his
tags to the sagebrush and chaparral by
leasing every remaining acre of the
government land largely for the rev.
enue benefit of other states and also
makes the further generous PROPOSE
ton that if the people of this state
want good roads on the present three
fourths, trustee owned national area
of Idaho that they should be willing TO
nav two-thirds of their construction
cost while our national landlord pays
one-third and that the poor, suffering
local taxpayer should be willing 10
carry all the burders of their main
tenance. These alien, un- American SEN
timents are a pleasant thing for the
Idaho citizen to anticipate and arc
about on a par with the present ad-
ministrative policy of the extensive ma
tional forest reserves, now covering
nnn-third nf orr araa and whose OFF,