New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-06-22
LATE HOMESTEAD
LAW A JOKE SAYS
GREAT DIVIDE
DENVER PAPER SHOWS UP
SOME OF THE INCONSIS
TENCIES OF $40 ACRE LAW
AND URGES PASSAGE OF
FALLS AMENDMENT

world in laws that hold out encour.
agement to the landless man. What
Il fearful st,'"ment this is i! it is
true ,.,. we don't need to rur
" cor lie to prove this state
/ at ch, : close to shore.
Fir :, ale call attention to the
6HO- acre 80 .k-raisine" homestead
law, the :, ~ passed by the Unit
ed Sta:.s, r > nment offering the
pub .op lin to homasteaders. This
Law n the hoi 'esteader 640 acres
Iof lment la d al d Immediately
tak> o.. away from him 1t allows
his application, .cepts,. it, and also
m,,o1, mis- $4 'f"dir' a"S ,xs tses aYdu apd Nm
Homesteader, < :, no right to oc-
cupy the land you have filed on
Is not that statement in the law
assa ssination of the homestead laws ?
1t most certainly is. You = know
the act of congress of Ma. u, 1880
1t is the "squatters' right" law. That
liberal law allows the homesteader
to 90 on public lands, surveyed or
unsui veyed, as a "squatter" and gives
him a preference right against all
the world, to the land settled upon.
1t allows him ninety days preference
right after unsurveyed lands are sur
veyed and the plats of such survey
filed in the local United States land
offices. 1t allows the "squatter" a
ninety day preference right to enter
surveyed lands on which he has es-
tablished his home within which he
may perfect his homestead entry ;
Notwithstanding the fact that within
the ninety days from the date of
settlement of the "squatter" some
other person should appear at the
land office and file upon or enter
the same tract of land. SO you see
how the homestead law as first
signed by Lincoln in 1862 has con-
sistent,y protected the occupant and
homcseeker, but glance over the 90
acre stock raising home law and
see where the cattle and sheep bar
ons OF America have gotten in their
fine work The cattle and sheep
barons are none else than the beef
trust They are the cattle barons
The Great Divide is alluding to.
Don't forget that. Where is this
fine work. Here it is, as found in
section 2 of the 640-acre stock rais-
ing homestead law:
"But no right to occupy such lands
shall be acquired by reason of said
application"
In the name of the homestead laws
of the United States; in the name
of justice and democracy; in the
name of right; in the name of pro-
viding food for our soldier boys in
the trenches in France, why do the
pcop.e stand for such a damnable
law? Here you have it: You file
on a homestead and tie government
receives your filing and takes Your
money and then brutally says you
cannot occupy" the land. Occupancy
is the very foundation upon which
the homestead laws have existed the
past sixty years. Show The Great
Divide a single word i'll the law that
prohibits the beef trust from occupy
:Ec every square inch of these home
st.ad lands Show The Great Divide
a single word in that law permitting
tilc homesteader from ever even
crossing over his own land Mr'hott
eComing trespasser l. Gus ie'e-
gat;on to congress from the pubI'c
land states worth a two dollar bill
to us; to the struggling little fellow
who can fight as hard and harder
than the white spatted, white vested
statesmen we have installed in Wash
ington principally, it seems, to hear
their heads roar?
Pass United States Senator Falls
bill, that every acre of unappro-
priated public lands of the United
State is open to immediate entry
and occupancy to citizens of 'he
, tied States in tracts of not more
tLan $40 acres, under the homestead
laws of the United States.