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Show fluent' champagne Hod though the gove rnment sent more than 20,000 trained soldiers to quell its disturbance, dis-turbance, they could not do it for women and children, chil-dren, a compact mam, lay down and blocked the street in front of the advancing soldiers. The riot was only quelled by the government promising an immediate investigation of theytrouble. France has been a civilized country for Hfteen hundred years. Would it not. be well for the interior department to start an invent igation to wee if it ha not bitten off more than it' can chew? I CONSERVATION. f The more the fad for conservation in considered, the more offensive it becomes. The fair lands ea.t b of the Eoeky mountains were thrown wide open to f : (M-ttlers; the land was (riven them, a free gift, if they would but live upon; if they were coal lands, they uoulJ .Main p.-rffct title for 10 per acri-; oil land 1.25 per aerej they were encouraged to fll the finest limber and hum it, that the land where it stood might be cultivated, and when planted, the soil, the sunshine and the rain produced pro-duced the crop. But as that land was absorbed by , settlera and the pioneer pushed his way out upon the desert, he. seemed to become an object of sui-picion sui-picion at once. The firt thing was to try to inhibit in-hibit his using any timber that he might find unless un-less he paid the government a largo suiii per aere. The government watched complacently while the oak, maple, black walnut Mid other hard woods of the Mississippi valley were hauled into hcapa and burned; but it. became anxious when it learned " that the smelters in the desert were actui lly burning burn-ing little gnarled junipers and nut pine to smelt their ores with. Carl Schurz. when secretary of the interior, made a. journey across "the continent, it was said hal.' for recreation and half that he might obtain a bettor knowledge of weHtern affairs. His real mission was to obtain the ncresttary data upon which to brine suits against the "timber thieves" of .Nevada. lie made a trip over the whole length 5 ' ot the .Southern Parifie railroad through Nevada and finally realized that he was chasing an ignN V fattni. . ( Hut finally Mr. Pinchot obtained aplace wliere ' he could xcrvi'.e authority, lie was a rich man, and ' fine scholar i . scholarship is rated in the chsI, hut I he knew no more about how men vrreNtle for a.livo- lihood ou the frontier than a Tinihuctoo eolor.-d msu knows about woman suffrage in Kansas. : But he began lo crclile forest nwrves; then ti) spread his net over the coal measures of the tlcser.' ; lho. since the tranHmission of electric power has Ik-id made practical, the same spirit has included I ho s)rcauiH, and the culiuiuHtion has been the advancement ad-vancement of eoal lands in price to prohibitive 1"-, 1"-, ures. Home months ago. a few men after expending a great dettl of moqey down ou the forbidding d t ert uear lh Colorado river in !S.n Juan eounty in J' this state obtbined most encouraging indication it ! oil of a superb' quality. Rut they woke up one r morning some months ago to find that an Indian rcervatin hail Wfi stretched over all that desert. There wer no Indians who needed a reservation: j ! had there been a no more unfit place could have f hctn found for a reservation thun the spot'M-t aside l fot one. This we do not blame the interior depart-: I nient for axcept that it took the word of some liars as to what sort of a place it is, Hnd behind tic misrepresentations roust surely have been a design to after a while appropriate the land aud then have the reservation set aside. The facts have lieen ! j laid before the interior department but it gives mi (sign. The only things left are the mines thst are ia ledges, and we are expecting everv day to see intr--i dueed a.bill repealing the Ihw which enables a insn t to locate a gold, or silver, or lead, or tipper miini. And what are the reasons given for all this usurps-I usurps-I tioof "To prevent monmlirs to absorb this iu- heritauee which belongs tu all the people." lu which res mm there is neither senne nor a shadow of justice. So sense, for it is only through very large expenditures of money that a coal mine ran be opened or an oil well discovered, or a water power harnessed and made available. Ami how does any man in the interior department propose that any of them ran ever be made available? And the idea that when any of these properties are brought to the paving point, they are a part of the property of all the people of the I'nited States. in the sense that their proceeds should belong to all. is so rank that the wildest-eyed auarchist would blush to urge it. . The advance in the price of coal lands after, ne price hat bfen established fur a hundred years ia simply robbery in" itself and moreover iaa ruling in the direct interest of monopolies, fo only combines com-bines can purchase, eoal lands at the rates prescribed. pre-scribed. ' y" , ' And pertinent inquiry is: .How do the men ol ths interior department xpect the men in the desert to liref Only a small proportion of the m can be cultivated, hoir'are poor men lo obtain .a-ploymeot .a-ploymeot if tha mineral resources are i-oMd acinst the settler and against (be ipitsl nerehsary t utilize sueh resources? In France for many years a certain diktrict li made the champagne of that country. At last a law was passed giving any maker o sparkling wije the right to lal el it at champagne. "At this the (Kipulsce rw up, destroyed vin.v ajrd. wuic iiresses, aud millions vf bottles of the |