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SENATOR CARTER EXPOSED.
The Son Francisco Call declines to
credit Senator Carter with patriotic and
unselfish motives in talking the river
and harbor bill to death. Senator Car
ter , it seems , did not oppose the bill be
cause it was a steal but because it did
not steal enough. He made a strenuous
fight to couple with it an appropriation
of many millions to irrigate arid western
lauds , and failing in this determined to
defeat the bill. The Montana senator
believes the government should not only
give the people land upon which to build
homes but should see that the land is
properly watered and fertilized.
The Call thus points out the inconsis
tency of the senator's position and the
injustice of his policy to eastern farmers :
"The taxpayers would be glad to see
the objects of expenditure decrease
rather than increase , and will by their
representatives soon open a more active
campaign for the limitation of taxation.
We are not ambitious to hold the ribbon
permanently as the costliest government
on earth , though we do not insist that
the cheapest is necessarily the best. But
a billion dollars is a lot of small change ,
and the expenditure of that sum per
year is already in sight unless congress
puts on the brakes.
"It is well for the whole country to ex
amine the policy for which Senator
Carter spoke thirteen hours without
stopping. It is proposed to ask federal
appropriations to build irrigation works
in the arid region , in order that soil now
barren for lack of moisture may be made
fertile.
"Leaving out of the question the erratic
nature of such appropriations , their
wasteful expenditure , and forgetting
such experiences as the venerable propo
sition to make a harbor in Oakland , a
western man may well put himself in
the place of the eastern farmer and tax
payer. That distant but good fellow
citizen of ours has had no help from the
government. He has planted and reaped
and gathered into barns , while the gov
ernment has been indifferent to his rain
fall or the fertility of his fields. Out
side the public land states that taxpayer
had to put up a liigh price for his land ,
and acquired it by no such cheap and
easy method as the pre-emption or home-
FIRST NATIONAL. BANK ,
OMAHA , NEB.
United States Depository.
Capital and Surplus ,
HERMAN KOUNTZE , President. F. H. DAVIS , Cashier.
J. A. CREIGHTON , Vice Prest. C. T. KOUNTZE , Ass't Cashier.
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stead law. He feels taxation and the
burden wears upon him. He gets tired
and rests one leg while he stands on the
other. Senator Carter desires to tax
iim to aid farmers in the west who
under the homestead law can get lauder
: or nothing , provided the government
will water it for them , at the expense of
the unaided eastern farmer , for whom
; he government does nothing. Is it any
wonder that heads are shaken and dis
content is voiced in those eastern farm
houses ?
"Again , the eastern former is a citizen
of the republic and part-owner of the
public domain. He used to keep sheep
on his farm , under fence , and found
them profitable farm stock. That part
of his business is broken up. On his
property , the public domain , out west ,
sheep are grazed without paying him
anything for what they eat. To raise
them costs nothing in comparison with
; he expense of raising them on his in-
ilosedfarm. He cannot compete. He
las parted with one valuable means of
diversifying his industry and turning an
osier penny , and he sees his rival
getting rich rapidly on posture that does
not cost a mill. So these two western
visions disquiet him. The property of
which he is part owner is used without
rental , and its use is destroying its sole
value , and he is called on to pay taxes
to water another man's land. Honor
bright , is such a situation just to our
bard-handed fellow citizen , and is it
creditable to American statesmanship ?
"What would an individual business
man do under such circumstances ? He
would solve both problems at ouce. He
would make the stock grazier pay rent
for the public property he pastures and
would devote the proceeds to irrigation
works.
"The arid rangesunder leasehold con
trol , would yield nearly $10,000,000 a
year.
"An idea of the proportion in which
such a fund would be earned in and al
lotted to the states and territories may
be obtained from the amount of public
domain remaining in each. Of their
total area the following percentage is
public land :
California 68 per cent
Arizona 76 per cent
Montana 78 per cent
Utah 89 per cent
Nevada 95 per cent
Wyoming 86 per cent
Idaho 89 per cent
"An examination of the above shows
that the public domain remaining in
federal ownership rises with aridity and
falls with moisture. The states and
territories most needful of irrigation ,
therefore , have the greatest amount of
public domain to rent for provision of
the means of irrigation. California ,
needing the least , would get it.
"Putting the total revenue from the
leasing of the public ranges at $10,000-
