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Show TIMBER CULTURE. One of the moat liberal billa.paescd by conRroiS, ia that known as the "timber culture bi!l," recently sent back from the senate with a slight amendment. It hnB probably become be-come a law, or will bood do eo. The object is to encourago the growth of timber on tho western prairies, and is therefore commendable, an it will further induce the settlement and development of the broad plains. The facilities ofljrod by this government fjr the poor to obtain botwoa, ami evou acquire wealth, are unexamplod in their lioerality. The public lands have been almost given away; they havo certainly been cheap enough fir any who desire to earn un honest living. Any eiliiou may preempt, by becoming an anlual settler, ICQ acres, paying morely from $1.25 to $2.50 an acre for land that increases in value every year from fifty to five hundred per cent. The homestead act even pro vides greater facilities, and the deaert land act makes it possible for oue to get an entire section of 640 acres, at . the rate of $1.25 an acre, and allows him three years' time in which to pay the money. Now the timber act increases in-creases the government generosity, and provides "that any person who is the head of a family, or who hai arrived ar-rived at the age of twenty-one year3, and ia a citizsn ol the United States, or who shall have fi'cd bis declaration of intention to become such, as required re-quired by the naturalizitioa Uwa of the United Stales, who shall plant, protect, and keop in a healthy, growing grow-ing condition for eight years ten acres ot timber, the trees tbereju not being more than four feet apart each way, on any quarter section of hny of the public lands of the United States, or five acres on any legal subdivision of eighty ucrea, or two and one-half acres on any legal subdivision of forty al're, uhall ba entitled to a patent for the whole of said quarter section, or of .sul'Ii leg ii subdivision ol eighty or f rry m-rea, or fractional subdivision of leaa than forty acres, as the esse may by, at tlie expiration of said eight jeara, on making proot of such fact by ujI m than iwj credible cred-ible witnesae?, and a full compliance of the further conditions aa provided in section 2. Provided, further, that not more t-iiu one quarter of any section shall ha thus gi anted, and that uo person eh .ill ruke more than, one entry uoder tue provision of this act, unless fractional subdivisions of less than forty acres are entered which in the aggregate shall not exceed one quarter section." Au amendment by the senate requires the applicant to have not leas thau 900 living and thrifty trees to each acre when he applies for a patent. With such liberal laws the crowds of diacooteut&d men who tloat about the cities, railing against the government and howling for the right ol labor, have little just cause for complaint. They are asked to accept farms which will yield them necessaries, comfjrta and even wealth. Were they to embrace the ofTar and go to work we would hear little of labor riots aud of communed. Tue farmer is not the cum munis t, but the contented, con-tented, happy man who exercises the rights of labor in the fullest an-i most . independent sene. Tue agriculturist does not develop into Kearney or a Mepy, whoie aims are to destroy '. property, overturn government and set aside law; while his purpose is to beautWy tre globe, make himself and those about him happy and contented, con-tented, and to make aud observe wise laws. These are the different charac- 1 teriatici of the two classes of mea. ! Having pasted laws for bestowing upon all who have the manhood to ac.-ep, homes and a living, concress 1 can do littU more. It U the lault of ! the thousand ol lUlere and loafers who hug the c:ntres of tiade and com- morce, if tbpy continue Mgged, i hungry and discontented, breeding ideas and habits of vicicusuess, and developin; the revolutionary and viler propensitiei of their natures. THE FATAL BLUNDER. If a cunurt jfcional invest'gation of frauds at the presidential election is necessary or desirable, it certainly should be full and fair. Any other will answer none of the demands of justice, of equity or of political right. It will fall short of what everybody haa the right to aak and expect. In excluding the amendment proposed by Mr. Hale to make the investigation investiga-tion general, the democrats haw injured themselves, and alienated much of the popular sympathy that otherwise might have extended to them. The conservative element and hence the majority of the country Is earnrntly opposed to re-j opening the question which has agitated tho nation, and kept business busi-ness matters in a turbulent, unsettled state for two years. This clement is heartily sick of it, and though fully realizing that fraud waa practiced, and a great crime perpetrated, ia willing will-ing for the sake of paa-e and the atabilityof busino.u to let the matter drop, the puuiahmeut of tho guilty to be the brand of fraud that baa been placed upon thorn by the people at largp. Hut while this portion of the nation's population is sick and tired of the eternal bickorius and quarrels, it deuiatnla that justice he done, and fairness practiced. No one sided, partisan investigation will satisly. There waa fraud in Louisiana Louis-iana and Florida, which reversed the democratic majorities not only iu those states, but everywhere, aod defeated the will of the people as to who Bhould Gil the high oflicca. Fraud was attempted in Oregon, and though it was unsuccessful this dots not overcome the fact or condone tho crime. Success did not justify in ono cose, nor failure palliate in the other. Whether Mr. Hayes was guilty in the Florida steal, or Mr. Tildcn in the attempted at-tempted Oregon theft, is not known. Neither appeared in the transactions, yet thoro is as much reason for believing be-lieving one took as activo a part, though hft failed, as tho other did who succeeded. Democratic frauds were alleged in Mississippi, aud both republican and democratic m South Carolina, and there is little doubt that many of the charges are true. It is certain that neither party is alone responsible for the cutreges upon the ballot; then neither party should alone be the subject of investigation, investi-gation, and wo caunot help looking upon the action of the democrats in refusing to make the inquiry full, a3 culpable and cowardly in the ex 1 1 erne. It ia conduct that cannot fail to react against the party with terrific force. No party can-flfTjrd to be partial, except upon-principle, and the people, who makoand break parties, are quick to detoct any act of illiberality, such as the democrats have been guilty of ita this matter. The republicans have outgeneraled the democrats, and have the beat of the situation. If justice or the people require any investigation, investiga-tion, it requires a full and complete showing. This neither party wishes, and both strongly object to. Each is willing and anxious to investigate investi-gate the frauds of the other, bo far as it will answer its own political purposes, and help the party, by damaging the opponent. There each wishes to stop, being afraid of the result, should the examination be complete, qb both parties would ba ccvered with shame and disgrace. But wherein the republicans have acquired the advantage advan-tage is iu this: rinding it impossible to prevent Borne of the misdeeds on their s de from coming to light, they step in and express themselves as willing to accede providing the investigation in-vestigation be made to apply to all frauds. The democrats, in their imajority, refuse, and will find their restriction of the inquiry more damaging than the proposed enlarge merit of tie field. We regret first, that the inveatiga-tiuu inveatiga-tiuu proj -ct should have been adopted, as it will ccntiuue the unsettled state of all airs in the country, without, in the end, accomplishing any good; aod, -econd, we are sorry that the demo cia'ic party baa lacked wisiom to such au extent as to lead it into the oommisaion of so disastrous a blunder. |