The capital which he
controls will be still here after he is legislated out of office, just
as it is when Father Time gathers him in.
He not only injures our country by taking its capital away, but he
checks development by tying up the resources which he has got title to.
He incloses thousands of acres for a few deer or some such to browse in
when the whole should be thrown open, and those in need of homes allowed
to settle it. There can be no doubt but what this is a great waste of
land when we remember how rapidly those reservations were settled when
they were thrown open within the last few years. Those large inclosures
may or may not contain land suitable for those in need of homes, but a
look through the foothills and mountains of California will show that
homes can be made among the rocks and canyons even - when people are
forced to it. And it is this power of millionaire to compel us to takes
his refuse that we have to do with here, and not with the quality of the
land in his game preserves. Strip him of this power and you make the
"decoration for his wall." the "deer park," and the "princeling"
impossible, and the people will once more have come into their own.
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