Show I HITCHCOCK'S f POLICY Chicago Chronicle If time the history of oC Inn land grants grant In this Vero lan invariably satisfactory ry there might be some somo on o p public sympathy with the United States Slates senators who criticise Hitchcock's order Secretary or cl pro pro- time tho Is Issuance of oC any patent until after an nn examInation examination exam exam- on tho the ground 10 11 by a special agent innately as er e everybody bo knows there hits has been more moro scandal can nl eon con with time tho laud land ollice than with nn any other gover- gover mental bureau In lii the face Cace of or tho hue fact that thal senators anti and members of congress have imao been convicted of complicity In stealing land from the government go It Is Idle hUe for other and representatives es to lo characterize Secretary Hitchcock's policy as mere sensationalism and amI unfounded Insinuation rime Tho cases of ot John Hippie Mitchell l and er Hermann are too fresh In the public n memory mol for fOI an any such assertion asser assor- lion ion to 0 be be lw accepted l It ma may be true as declared by one of the tho protesting senators that American merican farmers farmes arc aro settling In Iii Canada rather than In our OUI own 11 northwest but If IC It Is Js true the time reason Is that there thelo Is still stihi much go good government so land lanti available In Canada while the time land thieves es on this side of the line have reduced the time arable arabic area orca open ojen to settlement settle sallIe ment to almost nothing The public domain ln has to a n. ver very lu largo large extent fallen Into inti the hauls hands or of SIH speculators private atc or corporate ann no amount of oC senatorial oratory will alter aHer tho time fact It Is probable that of man many popular cabinet officers under President Roosevelt's administration Mr Hitchcock Hitchcock Hitch IllIcit cock Is the thu foremost because the people know that he lie heIms has Ims been he hee en Indefatigable and amid unrelenting m n his pursuit ot or orthe the tho men muon of lal large e Influence and political pull who have gained Ilo possession of the public imbue domain It is certain that anything like a concerted attack upon him him by politicians of a p. l certain typo type will not only enhance public alpl appreciation of oC Secretary Hitchcock's merits merit but will viii subject time the politicians to In Insinuations not entirely flatterIng The land which was vas Intended for COI settlers has been veen stolen to a large largo extent The Time people know It and they realize that Mr h Hitchcock while he hue can not force Coree Lion llon can prevent pre the time theft of the tho land that Hint remains If It politicians fool feel like ertin contro that proposition they are likely to acquire Information that will not prove pro enjoyable cj I A f I x H i i f |