Weekly journal-miner., 1920-10-27
LAND ISSUE CANNOT BE
 DODGED BY SIMMS
CFrom Fridays Daily) Special to the Iournal-Miner)

N
 MORENCI. Oct. 21.-Declaring that the efforts of the democratic politicians to drop the state land question as a campaign issue would prove unavailing. Governor Thomas r.. Campbell addressed a large audi ence here tonight, and amid ap- plause. said that the state land issue would always be an issue irrespective of who might be elected 10 office Until the matter had been settled in the interests of the people, no poll- tician or party can make an issue, declared the governor, unless the matter at issue is of importance to the people. And the people not only make the issue, but settle it.
 The efforts of the democrats to drop the state land question as an issue must be unavailing until resti- tuition of these lands has been made to the people. You can't rob a people of their heritage and get away with it for very long" the speaker added. "and before this mat ter has besn settled somebody is go- ing to find himself right up against the buzzsaw. It makes no differ ence whether or not I am reelected governor. The fight to have these state lands administered properly will go on; the people will see to that"
 Governor Campbell quoted from documents to show that land sold by the department at three dollars an acre a comparatively short time ago was now being offered for sale by real estate men at as high as thirty five dollars an acre, without a pen nv's worth of improvements having been put upon the land; that ten thousand acres were sold i'll the Casa Grande valley under the direction ot Ben Clark, chief aide to the land commissioner at an average Of So.oO an acre and that many Of these acres were now being offered by the buyers at from thirty to sixty dol lars an acre, that hundreds and thousands of acres had been leased at from three to ten cents an acre, and the leases sold from one dol lar to ten dollars an acre.
 Why isn't the state getting these prices if the land is worth that; and it must be worth it or the purchas- CTS O fthe leases would not pay the original leaser those prices. One reason ofr these resales is that only the favored few can get these lands from the department If you hire the right attorney then you have a chance
 The speaker said his opponent ia vored the present system of leasing these state lands at three cents an acre in vast tracts to few big cat tie outfits on the economc theory that this concentration of the state lands in a few hands would permit the raising of cheaper cattle.
 But is it good for the state and the people of the state to have few rich cattle barons and the rest of the people working for them?" asked the speaker. amid applause. "I am op- posed to the concentration of these lands in the hands of few. Il robs the little fellow, the home steader, the returned soldier and the people as a whole of opportunity oi sharing in the land that was giver them when Arizona became a state Ii robs the state of opportunity tc utilize this land. When reclamation becomes effected, it is well for th' creation of an agricultural common wealth and you must turn to agri culture some day, for the time l: coming when the mines, always wasting asset, will be depleted o their treasures" Governor Campbell also replied to criticisms voiced her' by his opponent, against his being away, from the gubernatorial office frequently showing these trips were made always in the interest of tho state and another speaker brough loud applause when he quoted iron state records to show that Former Governor Hunt had spent $26912O II the calendar year 1918 for his trav cling expenses whereas Governor Campbell's travelling expenses for th' calendar year 1919 were but $l44S.3S or more than Sl2OO less than Hun spent in the same length of time.
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