| Show BONUS AND BOUNTY A man owns a hundred acres of laud on the outskirts of logan 0 city lie ile offers to give away forty acres of it in pieced of five acres each to persons who will locate and build homes upon it lie judges that hy so doing the remaining 0 sixty acres will be worth more than tile the ori original one hundred acres would have been without settlers his action is perfectly proper anil and may turn out to be profitable to him this is a bonus another man owns a hundred acres similarly situated ile he likewise desires money invested upon it but he be goes into the legislature and C gets a law passed offering to any settler enough money from the public treasury to buy five acres of uch land as he has for sale lie he thus gets settlers upon his land without himself giving the bonus the public gives the bonus bonus in this case and tho the gift is then called a bounty very few of the public receive any benefit from it the man inan who receives the benefit ought 0 to pay the bonus it never should be paid from the public treasury A bonus is all right a bounty is all wrong |
