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Show DRIVING OUT AMERICANS Uanada has been successfully bidding for American settlers for a number oi years pat. A good many hundreds ol thousands of Americana have gone to the Dominion because of the land inducement in-ducement held out there to settlers. I'anada ban no conservation fad which denies to settlers on any part of the public domain the use of the lands, the waler powers, or the forest lands. All that S -ettler in Canada has to do i order to gel title to land is to settle upon it, cultivate it. and make it B pari ot the taxable wealth of the conn try. ( anada baa been s,, successful in getting get-ting American settlors by its liberal land policy, thai Australia is now making mak-ing a bid for American settlers. The Australian government hue chartered B steamer with berths for passengers, which is expoetod to sail from Ban Francisco in the spring vvith 900 Amer iean homescckcra to whom free lands are offered in Australia. A verj low fare for the trip n offered t0 pTOapOCl ive settler, and, if ihe rehll of this pioneer trip are successful, other excursions excur-sions will be arranged, with the possl bilfty of regular aarviee between San Kranciscfi and Melbourne for the colonv trade. The special doaire ol Australia is. to get farmers who have had experience in irrigation and dry farming, since Australian conditions i" many part.- of that vast region are prao tically the same aa in the and region of America. Hence the rendezvous Bl San Francisco, and the imitation to settlers from Hie Wrl to take PUXl in this Australian colonization. In the Wimmera district ot Anstralia ' colouj 1)8 re. cnllv In en founded lifter the California methods, with 500,000 acros under irrigation. The efforl of us tralia to i:et American settler: i; ol courSo. stimulated primarily l the sui cess of ('anada in that same direction, and is helped by our conservation pol icy of driving -etilrrs off the foret re serves, withdrawing from the market large areas of agricultural lands under pretense that they are coal lands, forest for-est lands, or are necOBSXry in order to reserve water power sites. To such an extreme has this excluding of Bottlers from the public domain gone, that we have recently seen the warning of a forest superintendent in Southern California Cali-fornia that DO one must go on the forest for-est reserves without a special permit from him. This is satrapy and bureau-craev bureau-craev in its most arbitrary and insolent form. No wonder the Pinchol conservation policy has attracted indignant comment on al) parts of ihe newer regions of the United States In pursuance of giving exprossioh tO this public indignation. indigna-tion. The Tribune gives space to ihe following communication received re ccntlv on the subject : Salt i.ake city, January 19. Kdltoc Tribune, filfforu Pinchol lias been to ,ia.k,i, at least this astounding fact seems Bomewhal in evidence. Olf-rdrd Olf-rdrd Pindiot vas evidently in bodllj presence upon the actual soils of thai far off Territory for a few days, and therefore he, iicim,- Glfford Plnchot, knows all ai-ont the needs of Alaska and its varied population How natural lha.1 a great man like he, coining from the far-off "Down Bloat," should know just how i" ad vine our Government a to how-to how-to administer the affairs of the benighted benight-ed pioneers of such an insignificant pail of nor Government's poaseaslonal Who but a crcai man like Glfford Pin-ohot Pin-ohot would condescend to criticise a poor offlclal like .Mr. Balllnger was when he -as I lie U. S laws rCQUlrOd him lo do refused to give any homesteader or any other applicant a tit'-"- to Ms entry until an Official survey was on record? What, is the u:-,e of having laws, anyway, any-way, when bui h men as Glfford Pinchol can i." secured? Men who think only of i lie. dear great-grandolilldren and are i)-llvloiis i)-llvloiis entirely of the uecda of iiv plo-nffrK plo-nffrK of tods I what rictits has a. pioneer, nnywa ? Quite true It Is that w practically stole most of the Weatarn lands rrom the poor Indians and therefore our Matlon's title itself to those said landi 1 none '"" good: but we didn't steal Alaska, "C v.eiji.-'it ii fiotu Russis 1 if course, i;u -sla may have stolen II from someon . but that Is not our affair. It is ours now, but for heaven's sake don't :i tt away to any grasping pioneers; lei's bottle ii up for B monument to such -rr-it patriots aa 'llfford Plnchot! Land hunger be hanged; lei the boys who -,v;-iiit ;m ien!iy own land k t" Canada, Can-ada, iust as liicv liavr hern doinj now for several year.-. hal do we care for i hem or for the money they Will pay Out 'a '- taxe in Ihe years lo coin. , nisi .so we Cap Be assured that our posterity will all have a farm and I poal mine apiece 7 W hat a sad U1I115 it is that "in Nation in the past could not liav had the publli lands adminlalered by a grat Conservationist Conserva-tionist like Tr Pin. -hoi. for then the Middle Waal might still be reserved for posterity and tho daw prospective grandchildren grand-children could then he assured of a. couple cou-ple of homesteads pieer and wiih s coal mine or two thrown n Only SWiOOO bomeaaekers from the United Plates last year went to Canada hr search of lands, and Uiey only took an average of the paltry sum of 11600 aaeh nrtth ttiem to Invest there, iut what i such an Item an that to the magic word "Conaerva I Ion" T In oiden times mankind workad. hoped, lived, dreamed la the ..no great desire "To own land": yea, "to own it from grass to the bOWelS of the earth', von, and strangely, lew men exiM even today thai are at all Willing to undergo Ihe risks and hardships of pioneering, unloes thev- can hops. In the end. to actually own the land they have found and made valuable. val-uable. Why is It that the com of living ll :" high? Ih It DO) heeause too fen of our peoph are taking UP ihe vacant lands? Water power linlc. urd is lit lie less ihan a theft from the settlers who n-ej It now. How manv Indian tepSSI would todaj h- sorinkied over the area now covapsd by 'he great city of BpOkane if some grasping monopoly hn 1 not tiled on the reat water power there and Improved it and thus opened np too possibility for wonderful development? There are tWO sld- to this conservation conserva-tion fad. and there are people out hepn In the W.-si who are nnwllllns to believe that ihe Mr. Glfford Pln hots of ths Baal are the only one who have hialns enough to know what is really (tie best vmi 10 pr.-vetit the Crasplng- pioneers fiuii . or.pinir np all the ko..,i things which other people down Kast don 1 rare enough for to even come to see what they have been missing V C WARD. |