Show A I I RM BAD L LAND LAWS L W I Not Improbable That Former May flay lr Sweep lie Latter BIG BIC FRAUDS OF THE TIlE WEST WEStlow I How low the time Graft Craft Is Worked awl ami What hat Is Proposed lu Ill the time Way Vay of or Heine dial d lat Legislation Special Correspondence Washington Jun Jun 10 con congressmen gressmen have hao been against and stoutly defending the national land laws Ians according as nA their Interests He lie Some Soma have hae asserted that under then them gross frauds were wem being perpetrated In Inthe Inthe Inthe the west while others have pooh the Idea of oC fraud and anti claimed that the entries under them were legitimate and that the lva were CIO n a great r at aid In time tho development of at lire west Now comes the tho commissioner of ot tho tiro tholand land hula with his annual report In which he says lias that hat time the order of tho the see sec secretary relay of ot the tho Interior for tor tho iho Investigation then tion of ot In III the tho three states Mates of oC California Oregon and Washington resulted In the Hie suspension of 0 1000 ap tip applications If It the th superficial evidence Is III such HH OK to lend tho the government to sus IUS suspect suspect that anything like that enormous number of or fraudulent entries had been heEn made during a II recent period In three states atone alone It must be apparent even evento evenIo to Io the tho most Indifferent nod least In Informed formed fanned that the timber nail stone act let actIs actIs letIs Is a I law luw easily susceptible of 0 abuse OLD STORY STOnY IN Tim As All a matter of ot fact filet the constant em employment m of 0 the tho timber law In W as 1111 a IL means of oC enabling lumber syndicates to lib ab absorb the most valuable property for far purposes of ot private monopoly Is no notorious in the localities where the time thins thin Is ts done clone It Ills lit Is known to every man elan wo WOo woman woman man and child No one attempts to deny Ii it though sumo somo defend It on the tho ground that lint private capital must be tempted Into the tho development of oC tho the country by II the assurance of oC enormous profits The commissioner also atoo says nys In his nit nil nual report that there thero were enclosures lIres of ot public land covering an on area of ot 2003 91 acres n II fence around other othor peoples property and proceeding to claim It 11 as n your OUr own Is a somewhat t unique way of o getting Betting rich but here Is testimony to the fact that tho the n method In extensively l pursued Incer Ineer It tats tain localities I 0 11 II TUB rm F r D The commissioner oho also says lays that the time ho he supplies represent but a 11 frac frae fraction tion Uon of or this species of ot fraud since he vas obliged to recall his hili special agents from tho field of Inquiry and put them themon on oil the trail trill of or the t timber mer thieves The Tho efforts of ot the stock In III Interests Inv crests In certain parts of or the west to enlarge their holdings hoMing by gobbling up valuable portions pardons of 01 the tho public domain IB Is quite M fU notorious as at th tM that operations of oC those who me oro grubbing grabbing the tho forests These Thello facts havo 1111 ninon ma thor thoro thoroughly known to the country And AntI there are many Indications that the country will demand legislation to stop stoll the tho looting of oC the public domain and sate cave lill the rest of 0 It for tor the tho highest st uses of ot civilization r DEMAND ND FOR Jon LEGISLATION Some o oo ot the th strongest newspapers in let inthe the United States State nil the way from frog the he Atlantis Atlantic to tho lima have havo declared In favor of the repeal of or the land love lawt nil all but tho mho original or homestead law Many of oC the lIe most powerful commercial organization and labor unions have hae done tho the With tho the exception of localities where Ilvo stock und and lumber Interests dominate public opinion west cm ern sentiment Is also largely lar cly In line i with the tho demand for tor repeal i It Is no 11 exaggeration to say gay that n fl nI storm of or protest t and Ind Indignation Is I sweeping over tho th land and demanding f that hat there shall be no further mi 1 tho the peoples s estate state Leaders n or of announce that of ot tb the All legislation 1 al a there J Whatever r else I c U Itt dona ne or left the th country cannot undone J afford to W I this lla duty to the ct y ers of oC the tle future I WILLIAM K E 1 S j |