Show JUSTICE TO TilE THE WEST EST Let Utah people remember that In Influential In- In congressmen men of ot the the- East will wll pre presently have havo to bo convinced that the they can do 10 Justice to tho the West rest most mOlt directly by giving Utah three million million acres of oC government land Jand The method must be to show them that they have a wrong conception of th the tho facts in the case For the most part those Influential congressmen merl look Jook upon the public domain as a am m measureless tract of or land which should be bc reserved so FO that every citizen fur fOI iii iriny many n years mn may have havo a home Tho The law Jaw giving a quarter Quartel section of or land landas as a a. homestead to every citizen of ot the tho theA republic still commends Itself to the Easterner as aR the culmination o of gov governmental ov- ov wisdom And that wa was all right so long as asI I the public domain consisted of ot fertile of or o land Because of oC that good goodlaw law Jaw man many a poor man took a a. team V t tand and a a. plow Into Illinois or or Into Kansas Kant Kan Ran fa sas ens or Into an any one of a 3 dozen oth other r slates states and made a homo home on a 0 quarter ter He cleared a 0 little land lantI IC if f It 4 was In timber Umber and plowed and got sot got enough grain and ha hay the first year ear to carr carry his team and himself himself- or his his little family If ho he had hall ono one through to tho the next harvest hanest There Thero was scarcely a chance for tor him to h he beaten b by the elements And In a c hadan l. l an lm f Improved f farm m good n nb I V lately 0 a assured I Jt But th tho condition of what la left o of the the public domain now Is different The Tue land remaining Is Js desert land ItIs It ItIs Itis Is so dr dry that It defies ordinary means of tillage There Is no water on It ft No Xo man could thank his government for making him live lire on that land while V perfecting title So that the tho old laws will have to bo be changed If It the big remaining portion of or the public domain domain do do- do main Is ever to become productive And It certainly Is the wish of at the V Easterner to make ever every acre of ot the whole broad Union useful and contrIbute contribute con con- tribute to the sustaining of oC life lire Within the past month since the Mondell Smoot-Mondell law became effective In Utah many men have havo taken advantage adV ad ad- V vantage of It Thc They have filed on onland on onland V land that would not not have havo sUpport supported d dany any sort of ot life lite In separate quarter sections The They have associated themselves them them- selves with others getting setting a half Fec- Fec tion each And they are nrc investing In Sn costly machinery with which they will wUl reclaim the land Jand And under the law Jaw they do not havo have to live upon It while making good their title That proves pro cs the s success of altering to this extent the old land laws Jaws of or ortho the tho nation The c cOndition Is different than that for Cor which the old law was wai conceived All of ot which p proves oves that If the tho government o will wUl give to the state another tract of three million acres s of or land lanel requiring tho the state to sell soli it for or the tho benefit of tho the people of It the state state for for better roads and antI the erection of oC a capitol building still building more moro of oC tho the desert will mill Ill become food food- producing land Thero are arc many further Induce Induce- ments menta In the first place every acre of ot government so land Jand remaining there remaining there are now thirty-five thirty million acres acrea In tho state of oC Utah will Utah will become more valuable because of at the r reclaiming of tho the tracts under the Smoot law The desirability of oC government land Jand willbe will wll bo be enhanced further by tho the sale salo and arid cultivation of oC the million acres s the tho state asks for Such a L new field will Invite tho the Ja Jabor a abar a- a bor bar of oC thousands now crowding crot th thi th populous centers centerA of oC tho the nation I It will r give o them opportunity which opportunity which 1 is hs all nil many o of them need to exchange misery miser for or Independence And still further the success of ot the tho entire plan will vill mean a a. mighty addition addition addi- addi tion to the food supply of the country coun coun- try try- It win will mean millions more moro bu bushels bush bush- h- h cIa els of wheat heat and more corn and more mor cattle It will mean finall finally the establishment establishment es es- es- es of oC homes on what Is now desert land For ground that b becomes becomes be be- comes productive encourages the sinkIng sink sink- V Ing lag of or deep wells the growth o of at shrubbery and of or orchards and th the tho building of roads and tho the planting of ot villages V Utah Utah has reason and reason and Inducement Inducement- to urge Influential congressmen t to grant the tho three million acres of oC Ian land for which tho the state has ask asked cl |