Show CONGRESS CRESS SHOULD ACT Mr tr Borah made madea a 0 great s speech the thc other day in 1 iti n to lo consel conservation ulion Wn 0 hope he le will follow that up b by introducing a 11 a bill pr's prescribing rib ng the thc I limitations of the thc secretary of or the thc interior O over ovet l' l the treasures of this country That thing tiling up about four score years ears earsa a ago o U and without a dis dissenting vote ote congress a alsol- alsol abolish ol ish d the tim whole thing It ought to do it ft again Tho rho hobill bill should prescribe several things s and one Is h S that any man who goes upon the public domain and locates s a coal mine shall be he entitled to have that mine re Jc recorded and be bc given the tile privilege e o. o of paying pay ing for ing-for for it at the prices that have t have ruled for four fOUl fourscore fourscore score years cars and have it done with expedition The Tile same SaIDO way with the thc forest reserves c the tIle law taw should uld prescribe that hIlt no barren lands shall shah be bc put in iu a a. forest for st c reserve g II n should prescribe cri c further that any man lUau or com corn pany which locates a water power shall have ha a aright right to appropriate and use that water power lo In the same same- bill there should be he a stipulation that no land should be reserved reserved by the thc general government gov gO as s oil lands for the very pI proper oper reason I that no one can tell which arc are oil lands lauds until nt it great e expense they arc sought so for The rhe the tho and the other oilier insurgents in the thc cast who have thought to lo make a a. grand gamble for public opinion in iu st states where there are man many electoral votes b by p professing an anxiety to have hac the tho people of this ibis country sh share lc in in tiLe the benefits Ithe of ol the treasures of the public domain need to be sat upon because those benefits benefits belong belong first to the pioneer pio pio- neer who goes and finds them and he lie sh should uld not be assessed out of all reason after he hc has found them nor nOl should he lie be bo in his work fool stopped by bp a government gov gov- agent who to come to him and annoy annoy an au- noy him and who has no interest in the thc pub public ic domain domain domain do do- main in the world cx except pt to to draw a petty salary for annoying people That business was tried l thoroughly for six years cars in the early days lays of the republic and proved tl to be a dead failure as well as a paramount wrong and congress is the only power that can stop the present intention to make the go government a landlord land land- l lord ord and the citizens of or the frontier who are arc struggling to earn a living mere serfs to do the will iiI of a lot Jot of sophomores who had no original V L common sense and who have only been made t bigger fools by education It Itis is we think as was explained b by the old farmer when one of t the he same slime class of people told him how bow many colleges col eol- eol l leges he lie had been through how man many degrees he lie had t taken how many diplomas he lie had And the theold theold theold old farmer thought it reminded him him only of a calf that ho he had that sucked two cows and the only result re rc- re- re suit sult that he lie could see sec was i that it was wasa ra a bigger eu calf If |