Show SECRETARY FISHERS FISHER'S FAD Secretary Fishier Fisher at the tIle meeting at St. St Paul declared himself in favor of leasing the public domain do do- main flail and asked l the governors present to h help lp in iii getting the nce needed ed legislation What That is tub thc s secretary see sec e re h 1 going to lease Supposed oil oHland lands Who under r such a cloud is goh g to the expense of boring bor bar ing ilig to for foi l' l o oil l Coal lands T Who vho will rill open a coal coalmine coalmine mine mille build a It road to it and nud then try try to compete I with men who own their mines mines' Water Yater rights How Bow docs does the secretary expect that water rights will ever er bo be put in ill order to pay with that kind kind of of ofa a It club over them Vh Why not exten extend the nH matter Her to agricultural lends lands The They arc more al valuable intrinsically than thau eith cither oil I coal oal or 01 water powers This whole business wn fifo wl fought out nn and determined deter deter- mined before Secretary Fishier Fisher was born banI The Tho following fol lowin lowing is iH a 11 paragraph from a speech made wade by Senator Thomas II IL Benton in 1828 H I do o trust and ond believe that this holding up of or orland land laud for fOl the tho endeavoring endeavoring- to make or use c revenue ont out of or the thic soils of th the country leasing and oud renting lend head mines minos salt It springs an and iron banks with till all its train of penal pon laws law's and civil and alI military agents will ho bo condemned iud and a abolished And nd n l they were Referring to it in his Thirty 1 Years he lie said And tInts thus the fe federal oral govern govern- got i rid riel of a H. degrading m and d' d unprofitable pursuit pursuit pur pur- suit and the tho state got sot citizen freeholders ers instead r of federal tenants Those words w are lire as is pertinent tod today y as us the they four eighty v were years cars ago iio I Moreover oi c y yol r after attN yc years s of linfon on on the tIlO lines marked mai out by Secretary l Fisher the tho records s Show that t the I. I re revenues mlles thus thins obtained tui from leasin leasing leas leas- in ing did not pay lY the cost of the government go in keeping its ts spi spies s and agents ag sent to collect the tho revenue When the tho abandonment of ll the policy came Caine up Ip in ll cong congress ess' ess there thero was not 11 one dissent ing vote S It will Mill ill he be so again agnin when pressed a little lile longer hut but in ill the meantime it it is an 1111 unmitigated nuisance nui sauCe sance c nut and ml rl results in itt infinite nito ite and nUll loss loss' to the thu men on the frontier |