Show DISCREDITABLE FIGHT rIGHT ON ox TIlE THE PRESIDENT From ever every eo paper and er c every orator inspired with vIti th tb desire delre to defeat th the Republican n party in the tho nation S co comes es a conc concerted roar of ot protest against Roosevelt's ell policy in relation to the public land Jand 4 of And AntI what is s this policy In Just seven words It ma may be bc truthfully sta slated l thus SAVE THE PUBLIC LAND FOR ACTUAL SIT SET r P f S l And there is nothing in that policy for which paper papers and orators orators especially especially Western estern ones ones should should oppose the thc President or attack his Ills methods It Is the fate fato of humanity to waste what seems to beit be bel l' l itS it'S I S possessed In profusion Spain ono one time owned mo most t of oft i t tho entire world And so prodigal was Spain of oC her 4 possessions so reckless of oC her po power er so Improvident with i 01 her resources that she shenk sank to the estate of a minor nai nation na na- na- na i S. S tion unable to defend or protect herself and dependent g. g on t the e magnanimity of oC the people she insulted but against whom she could not stand j Under the reckless of oC a prodigal nobility spoiled b by abundant abundant- success and grown arrogant with long- long c France threw an empire continued adulation away J f Russia has wasted an imperial treasure and arid trembles I today toda at nt the erge verge of oC disruption because she did not husband hus bus rj band the resources that were so 50 surely hers i Our own people have committed In smaller degree the similar Colf folly of ot improvidence A hundred years rears ago our people generally did not know how much land they had and did not caro care to enter Into a computation of Its Ita value Not a hundred men In the nation perhaps shared with Jefferson his estimate of the Importance of the Louisiana purchase e. e Fifty FUty years ago the people had just begun to realize tho the importance of the big area of ot public land that tha-t belonged to the nation from ocean to 1 ocean and from the lakes to the gulf guU But the realm ream was waa wass s so big the area was so wide tho the distances w were re so mag- mag tho the whole subject was so o stupendous that the V J generally could not como come to a true conception of or their opulence Even E when the Pacific railroad companies companies com corn corno panics were given their almost boundless expanse of ot land Jand the people ui m made de do no protest They had so much land the they did not care caro for tor a few tew millions of or acres And th they have ha on only 1 recently groin grown careful about their lands In almost every state slate added to the Union there has bas been much land and It has been trusted to tho the care car and custody of or the state by that nation which Is charged 5 I with providing for all nIl the people for all the future In Inso so some sarno mo c cases s the trust has been faithfully discharged In Inmost I most ost it has hag been lightly regarded and the public realm S- S has been frittered away Michigan took care of hers and from the prudent sales ales of or it endowed a a. state university uni uni- vc which became one of the very foremost educational S Institutions of the world Its law department under the service of Judge Cooley stood stool at the very head of oC the law schools known to men And a a. diploma from Ann Arbor Is a badge of high honor everywhere toda today toda Idaho took fairly good caro care of or tho land within Its Us I borders Wyoming was not Inexcusably reckless Colorado Colorado Col Col- 1 orado made mado a a. creditable provision pro for the disposition of ot ofUs Its Us public lands But we of or Utah have not nol Safeguarded quite so carefully care carefully care care- p. p fully as we should have done the treasure that was entrusted entrusted entrusted en en- tS tSI trusted to us Wo Vo havo have In some somo measure Ignored that tha I national responsibility b by which we were obligated to J keep this land for rOl tile the use uso of or actual settlers Every E newState new newstate I i S state has erred in this direction to some somo extent but Utah j has less with which to console her herself than havo have most mos most of oC the others Corporations have found little to check kr them In their greedy gobbling of ot rich r areas Private Individuals in In- In- In S ha have employed fraud to accumulate title t to t- t mineral mineraI lands and land that could be made mado rich In agriculture agri- agri C culture and the state has ha's not checked the aggression a as 1 It S should I oS that in I I tod today y In every cry state of the far West Vest there 1 k Is I S danger of all tho the land being taken up uv and closed in Ih f face ce of the coming of or I men who want to establish their thel I homes The very cry thing which would woul n redound to the thereat great great- cst est be benefit for the tho people which wo would ld be mos mo moat t helpful t to tc the stale state Itself has been bee neglected and overlooked o An Anc And I the policy of or the tho national government has nope nue too soon soo I been Invoked for the preservation of what f 1 is left of or th the national domain There is not th tha slightest desire on the part o oC of an any p pI t I lone one in President Roosevelt's counsels to take tram from th thc thc state from from an any state state state-a a single right that belongs to 1 I it But there Is a definite purpose to take care caro of 01 the tho pUblic S lands and with them give give- actual settlers a chance t to build their homes t t. t We rc know of or no more important sIut duty no more or sacre 1 obligation than this In working out that policy the tho peo peo- 1 pie plo should give to the administration every possible sup sup- tJ port It la is not a scheme schema to enrich already affluent cor cor- j f r It is not a plan to take from the people on one of 1 4 pennys penny's worth to which they aro are entitled The whole t. t v effort effort Is to servo serve the people both b th of oC tho the present an and f T those who ma may come In the future r Enemies of ot the a administration foes toes of the tho Republican Republica 1 party part should get 3 j some moro creditable ground on whIch f to stand and light fight They ar arc aro opposing tho the authority i which defends th their Ir homes They are aro attacking th the 7 force that preserves their treasure The They are maligning tho the men who in the b best Ht possible ble way 8 serve lve the tho people J Jf J It Is not creditable Jj to them that there thero la Is evidence of a j. SS- 7 f I j concerted attack Read where you will will- willIn In the papers paper I.- I. opposed to the tho administration at Washington and yo you will find evidence c of arrangement II Thoy seem determined determined deter deter- mined to m make ke difficult tho very necessary to th the I 1 r r- r S. S S S j I protection of ot the people The Tho one thing for which the they should most applaud the government Is made the reason renson for an attack on government But nut their fl fight ht will bo be hopeless Tho The people know mow the administration desires only to help the West h 1 husband hand its resources rp s. s And tho the people will sm sustain tho the President and his cabinet t and xul his friends In their every effort Tho The qUArrel of ot the tho opposition has Leon been badly cho chosen en In the theIla Ila day of their defeat enemies of tho the President will bo be embarrassed embarrassed em em- to reflect that tho the saddest t feature of or their failure fail fail- tire ure Is that thc they deserved It It |