Show r Y THE FIGHT ON THE PIONE ERS I J Secretary Y Ballinger says in effect that formerly l lands were sold to citizens without without- a a r. r V J J. J t ought A of making apy any profits for the gov government nt by by such sales But he counts counts' up the acres of ot the tp public lands the sales and rentals as part of all alli i r j if Pe peoples P inheritance Especially he wants to tor i lands containing containing- valuable mineral deposits 1 ff 91 AV t tor o Ol or the hands hands' of monopolies T There ere are just two twos zA Ys s to open such uch lands One is by private capI cap- cap I r. r the he other is IS for the government to undertake ll 1 e b. b business Th The e gov government h has as c done clone 1 one an and d is S f fiU 4 iU Distill till s-till reclaiming desert lands that they may become 1 I jy t but for what Is it not that i 1 J may be sold to settlers for just enough t to re- re n the government for its outlay y and then i ix X w jf t l V yc to to o the workers worker among o the A people A to each 1 f make k himself a home and by his Ins work create more pl t to be taxed It requires as a jr f i to tO properly open a co coal l measure and get it iti j i V q i a position to re return urn the money money noney to to the investor I. I the present officers of the government manage mant man- man t age that work better etter than the I fathers did I 1 A t Gorman r man cannot annot even pro prospect for for oil I It requires l avy capital and then nIlle nine times out of ten the i 47 v. v ent is IS lost In southern Utah some earnest J l eil have for several years been for i I Jp 4 t lt Itis is is an utterly ly worthless region on the sur- sur face But Bitt last spring the goV government stretched an i li a 1 reservation over that region Can an any 1 J SO 1 t tell ll why 1 It evidently was through collu- collu rV S oh that some sharp men amen might be benefited But But 8 iy cc-iy rl y should shoud such men get the to help to-help help i Jt il to con consummate the steal steal for there there are no us needing a reservation and if there le were V I It nat lat be the last place to set aside for the j- j I I f J vi v J i lih sudden sudden anxiety anxiety anxiety about boit the t the j public l iJ 5 when there are aie left little save rugged V l. l v ains and desert plains 1 j v L. L f L Ll l jt It It has been a theme theme for eulogy for years to the splendid work of the pioneers pioneers pioneer who yi t on the shores of the Atlantic pushed their I 4 ay I west vest against the forest and the savage and r ft r I. I d a aland land of savagery into happy homes for fort t J people Has the modern pioneer lost the charm J M. M J 1 i Jat clung lung to th the names names o of p pioneers o so long 1 Why l' l i q i d he jie be e pointed ej to t wIh with distrust and have his Ius Iusi histo i I l S i to o. o make a i fight ht a and and d wrest a home hom from t taken from froth liim hini 1 is an tn n Indian reservation set aside when J 11 J I Ie vegetation on the tract would not ot support J chan and ald when there ar are no Indians lee 1 3 a. a r reservation 1 Why go up under the arctic t 1 I s set t aside SOnic some coal Inea measures ures there and and co con cou- lC it tb to p purchase lse coal coal fr from m Japan and China 7 l. l J 1 s 3 converting a desert into pleasant homes I such I MS r tEY y yUti Uti S and aud 0 jol jolly Ny r work as to excite t the e envy of tsi ers Our own belief belef is that hat when a a. n man an is t ld who would stay th the enterprise of a people J forbidding obstacles to make make- homes out lIS has been from the first a waste if such such sucha a acan f 1 can call be analyzed ed it i win will be bc found that he is a lt 5 a who all tl his life has been seeking to make thing out out of nothing and for his his- individual is seeking a greater reward than his has obtained for like efforts l |