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