Show BONUS AND BOUNTY A man owns a hundred acres of land on the outskirts of logan city ile iio offers to give away anay an ay forty acres of it in piece of five acres each to persons who will locate and alid build homs upon it ile he judges that by so doing the remaining 0 sixty acres wi will 11 to te worth more than tile the ori original one hundred acres would have been without settlers ilis his action is perfectly proper and may turn out to be profitable to him this is ir a bonus another roan man owns a hundred acres similarly situated lie ile likewise desires money iDy invested ested upon it but he goes into the legislature and gets a law passed of offering to any settler enough money from the public treasury to buy five acres of such land as he has for sale tie ile thus gets settlers upon his land without himself giving the bonus the public gives the bonus in this case and the gift is then called a bounty very few of the public receive any benefit from it the man who receives the benefit ought to pay the bonus it never should be paid from the public treasury A bonus is nil all right a bounty is all wrong |