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Show splendid resources and an assured future, fu-ture, lint he is a forehanded farmer who can add to his tillable area more than two or three acre, a year io that region of dense forests. Today he farmer is covering the sky with the smoke of burning logs, but the process of clearing the land for the plough is slow and laborious. Rich coal Jields aad mountains of metal are there, hut it takes time to attract sullieient capital and open the mines. Railroad build-ing, build-ing, too, is at a standstill. It was high time the boom went out of business in these western towns. They are better oir without it. If they never see it again they will be just as big and pros-perous pros-perous in the long run a nature means them to be and as human enterprise can make them; and without the boom they will attain the full limit of their development just as quickiy, and with a good deal less wear and tear during the process. tronfr ll.ld On tb. Party. New York l're. Mr, Blaine has not up to the present time authorized the use of his name as a presidential candidato, or even intimated inti-mated that he would accept the nomination nom-ination if it was oflored to him. Mr. Biaiue has for some time devoted himself him-self to rett and recuperation, and is not now ready even to assume the duties du-ties of his office. While acting as sec-rotary sec-rotary of state he has neither schemed nor pulled wires for the presidency, but has given bis sole attention to the responsibilities of his oflicial position. His eminent diplomatic services have deservedly strengthened his hold upon the esteem and affections of tho republican repub-lican party. If he should become an avowpd candidate in tho future Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, rightly proud of her brilliant son, might with perfect propriety formally for-mally put herself on record as desiring his nomination. At the present juncture, junc-ture, however, to have done so would have been unfortunate. Tho I'rrss predicts pre-dicts that the progre.s of events will show tho correctness of this conclusion' Am.rlcan 14. of Fair Play, I'lttsuuu Commercial Ga.ntto. Vice-President Morton was one minute late for a Staten Island sUamur the other day, and tho ticket-taker, acting under his regular orders, and not knowing Mr. Morton, locked the gats in his face. The vice-president was to have been the guest of Thomas C. Piatt, v ho was aboard the steamer, and the latter gentleman promptly reported re-ported the employe to headquarters, where his action was sustained in a polite but pointed reply. The American Ameri-can idea of lair play, like a thing of beauty, is a joy forever. Not a Ku aou. Policy. Colorado Sun. Recent statistics show a continued increase in-crease of investments in manufacturing industrio. la Ma.sachu.otLs. It would not appear from this that the protective protec-tive policy was a so terribly ruinous one. AVMI.KE TIIE HE P. ALU II WRONG. Salt Lake City, Aug. 2G, 1891. . Eorroit Turns In the Salt Lake Herald Her-ald of this date under the head of "Revise "Re-vise tho Pension List" that paper makes some very erroneous and ab-surcd ab-surcd statements. It says that $o7.000.000 has l een paid to agents. Since 1S00 meaning claim ageuts of course and that the same was paid to them as fees for prosecuting the claims and that all they the agents-had agents-had to do was to file the applications. This latter statement is not true, as there never was a claim for peusion tiled that could be allowed under the law, upon the mere application for the same even though the claim or rase, may be a matter of record in the war department, and the surgeon general's office. Still further proof and iteps are required to be taken, by the claim-aut claim-aut through his attorney or agent before be-fore such a claim can be allowed. Then again it is not the place or the duty of the department under the existing ex-isting law to till such applications and it is well indeed for the claimants, that such is the case as there would be no end to the delays ana annoyances me claimant would be subject" to if this were the case. It is true that tho fees allowed the claim attorneys comes out of the amount allowed the pensions but there is not one case in ten thousand and whorein the agent or attorney does not well earn every cent he gets, and on the other hand there are many cases in which he is but poorly paid for the amount of labor and time he is obliged to spend on them aud this is necessarily so by reason of the law and the rules aiid practice of the department de-partment to tho end that justice may be done tho government as well as to the claimant iu each case. Then again the statement of the Herald that by "the prevailing system thousands who are now drawing pensions pen-sions would not be on the rolls" is untrue, un-true, as under the strict rules and practice prac-tice of the department it is almost next to impossible to got a fraudulent claim through the pension bureau, and therefore, the statement of the Herald that "there has been more fraud practiced prac-ticed through this source than was perpetrated per-petrated upon the government during its whole existence before the war," is not only untrue, but ridiculously absurd. ab-surd. Then again when the Herald or any other paper or person says that "one third of those now drawing pensions are not entitled to them,'! tney say that which is untrue, for the reason that suclr a thing could not possibly be brought about under the very strict rules and practice of the department under existing laws. The idea is imaginary im-aginary and exists only in such minds as the Herald's for a purpose, which can be readily and easily discerned by any patriotic and loyal citizen. The statement that one-third who draw ponsions do not need them may be true, but it is not their fault and there is no fraud in the fact that this may be so. "It is the law as made and enacted by the patriotic and loyal people of America for the benefit of its brave and loyal defenders. The statement state-ment that the other third "do not get what they deserve" is no doubt true, I but that is not on account of any fraud, but it is the law, and the rules and practice prac-tice under which the law ia being; administered ad-ministered that is the cause of this. No doubt there may be a case now and then such as the Herald speaks of, but a careful, fair and just investigation would find them to be rare and far between. So much so indeed that the government govern-ment would be loser in the great expense ex-pense that it would be put to to discover dis-cover them. I know oi my own personal per-sonal knowledge of many deserving soldiers who do not get what they should got. and while I have rejected many cases while in the employ of the government and have declined to prosecute pros-ecute many cases that came to me in my twenty years' practice I have yet to know the first case that I believe to be fraudulent. J. Lu. Taylor, Late United States examiner of claims in the pension office at Wasbinfton, li. C. and formerly of tha Second Iowa cavalry. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Th. Northw.-.t Boom, New York Sun. The present state of things is perfectly per-fectly natural. The towns cannot develop de-velop far in advance of the country which must sustain them. They have had their boom, luit unfortunately booms do not clear lauds for the farmer open profitable mines, or develop a great chipping trade in a day. lhe towns have grown too fast, and, though much against their will, they must wait for thu country to catch up. Ji js a country worth'waiting for, a land of |
