Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 7, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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Ames' School Land Speech.
Continued from Pat?e 2.
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out af the proceeds of the rent, before
making general distribution, to return
to each township sut;h an am unt as
would equal the taxes which would be
collected in the event thes« lands were
subjet to taxation.
"This plan would avoid the argument |
that some communities contribute more
to the school fund than the others, and
would place all upon a basis of eqality.
"Fourth, the question is by this plan
of sale taken out of politics, or as near'
1/ so as any civil question can be di-
vorced from politics.
"If this is true it is an important con-
sideration because there were on the
80th of June last 8006 lessees, and if
they are compactly organized as a non-
partisan and selfish faction, they will
practically hold the balance of power in
the state.
"Tnat the question is now in politics
must now be admitted. It has been
brought into politics by the lessees. It
has been brought into politics by the
lessees for the purpose of intimidating
the politicians and forcing the sale of
this land at government prices, or as
near government prices as possible.
Having been brought into politics by
the lessees they now say to the people
of the territory "You must seli this
land in order to take the question out
of politics." And they say this so long
portunity for trying by actual experi- |
ence, all phases of the school fund i
question. It -vitl not only iiuv- ihe
school lands situat.-d in the present i
boundary of Oklahoma, but it wiil also
have a large sum of money appropriat-
ed by congress in ieu i>f lands in the
Indian Territory By actual experi- ;
ence, we can therefore test the relative j
merits of land and money as a school
fund. We cannot make a mistake by
holding our lands until we have made a
fair test of our ability to wisely con-
serve the cash fund. If we make a
mistake in holding the lands, the mis j
take can be corrected. On the con-
trary, if we make a mistake in selling j
them the mistake is irretrievable. Ua j
der these circumstances is it not the
part of wisdom to pursue the safe
course and let our future actions be
governed by the light of our own ex-
periences.
It seems to me abuudantly clear that
the constitutional convention ought to j
prohibit the sale of our common school j
lands. Such a proposition enables us
to try ourselves, as it were, and by
our own experience, determine wheth-
er land or money is the safer and more
profitable fund. If this experience
shows us that we can use the money to
better advatage than the land, then it
will be easy to amend tne constitution.
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CASTORIA
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"First, it would yield an annual
school fund of at least $1,000,000.
"It is true that the revenue from
these lands for the year ending June
30, 1905,'was only $441,493.77 or about
22 cents an acre, and if the lands were
to be sold at the average price of $10.00
an acre and the proceeds all kept con-
tinuously invested at five per cent, that
the revenue would be $1,000,000 per an-
num; b.ut it seems manifest that the
present rental income is much too
small, and indeed, the records show
that there has been an average increase
each year of about $50,000, so that it is
reasonable to expect a. continued in-
crease in the rent until a reasonable
of recent developments of national in-
terest, that our richest men are • not
our best citizens. There is however,
this much truth in the conclusion ad-
vanced. A land owner is more apt to
be a permanent resident in the coin
munity, living in it as his home and
identified with it as a part of it, is gen-
erally speaking, a better citizen than
one temporarily residing there. In oth-
er words, the shiftless man is not as
good a citizen as the permanent resi-
dent. I believe that this is the sum
total of the truth contained In the ar-
gument. Now, would it apply to the
school land tenant? The system now in
vogue in the leasing of school lands and
which should be assidulously follower1,
is to make permanent citizens either ty
long lease ir by preference rig) ti to
renewal on fair and just terms. Such
hemence of their utterance scared a
great many timid citizens and convinc-
ed a few good ones.
"This of course, is not an argument
in favor of sale, but simply a sugges-
tion relative to the method of sale, and
in this suggestion I fully concur be-
cause if the land is to bo sold, then un-
questionably the least harm will result
if it is sold on long time at a fair rate
and so loUtily that they have by the we- and in this way we can certainly avoid
a mistake which might be fatal.
They have proceeded upon the theory
that the question of the managment
and disposition of this land is one which
the people desire to keep out of politics
and knowing this they have deliberate-
ly injected it into politics, hoping to
force the people to confess their de-
mands in order to get it out of politics.
£S"Itisa fundamental principle that
of interest. But it should never be no man can take advantage of his >wn.
rental value has been reached.
"It is certainly true that other lands 1 a system makes of the school land les-
in Oklahoma, similarly situated, rent j see a permanent citizen either by long
for largely more than 22 cents per lease or by preference rights to re-
newal on such fair terms. Such a sys-
acre.
"I am willing to admit, however,
that on the basis of the present income
it is probable that a larger revenue
would be derived from the safe invest-
ment of the proceeds of a sale, but
with an annual increase of $50,000 in
the rental, and with the universal
knowledg that 22 cents is wholly inade-
quate, it is not unreasonable to as-
sume that in the course of a f^w years
the rent derived from this land would
larely exceed the interest on the pur-
chase price.
"If the land is sold, it is certain that
the corpus of the fund cannot be in-
creased. and therefore the estimated
revenue cannot be increased. It is
more probable that the interest on the
fund would decline, as it is universally
true that interest rates are lower as a
community becomes older and more
settled. The fact that our school lands
are now bringing an inadeqate rent is
forcibly illustrated by the fact that the
lessees who now hold a three year lease
with the privilege of renewal habitu-
ally sell their leases at a profit of $500
to $4,000 a quarter section.
"Second, it would get rid of the ob-
noxious and un-American tenant and
landlord system, and provide perma-
nent homes for several thousand de-
serving families.
By many this is regarded as the
strongest argument in favor of the sale
of the lands. But is this a sound one?
The following table gives the percen-
tage of tenant farms in severs 1 of the
states similarly situated as shown by
the census 188C-1890:
1880 1890
Ohio 19.27 22.88
Indiana 23.73 25.37
Illinois 31.38 34.00
Iowa 23.83 28.09
Kansas 16. g6 28;23
Nebraska 18.02 24.72
Georgia 44.85 53 54
Alabama 46.85 48.57
Mississippi 43.78 52.84
Louisiana 35.22 44.38
Texas 37.49 41.88
Entire U'nited States 25.56 28.37
"From this table it will be noted that
the percentage of tenant farms is in-
creasing over the entire country, and
Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia are the
onl^ agricultural staets which do not
show an increase.
"It is not at all likely that the sale
of the school lands would do more than
substitute private individuals for the
state as a landlord.
"But what is the extent of the argu-
ment that the landlord and tenant sys-
tem is wrong and contrary to the best
interests of our civilization?
"Let us analyze this claim. What is
the exact measure of truth contained
in it? Is a land owner a better citizen
than a tenant, and if so, why? If it be
true, it is not true because the land
owner is a richer man than the tenant,
because richess do not make good citi-
zenship. In fact there is abundant rea-
son to believe, particularly on account
tem makes the school land lessee a per
manent resident of the community. He
has rights upon the land in his improve-
ments. He has knowledge that his
rights will not be taken from him ca-
priciously; and so long as he desires to
retain the land and is willing to pay a
fair compensation for its use, that he is
as certain to retain it as though the ti-
tle were vested in him. Such a ten-
ancy does not make a shiftless popula-
tion, nor does it create conditions tend-
ing to bad citizenship, and viewed from
this aspect, which is the right one, it
seems to me that the landlord and ten-
ant argument is unsound.
"It seems to me that when we once
assume, as we must do from the his-
tory of all communities, that the tenant
class will be a permanent factor in the
state, that it is an advantage to have
this land, upon which the tenant who
is unable to buy, may become an owner
in Substance without having to pay the
purchase price.
"The lessee of school lands, by rea-
son of his right of renewal, could and
doubtless would feel the same interest
in its proper cultivation, improvement
and beautifying as though he were the
owner, because every dollar of improve-
ment made by him would be regarded
as sacred, and his preference right of
renewal at an appraised value instead
of to the highest bidder, would insure
his continued occupancy upon fair and
just terms.
"This tenant inst ad of being sub-
ject to the caprice of a private land-
lord, would make as permanent and
good a citizen as the land owner him-
self.
"Third, besides producing large sums
in annual interest to be apportioned to
every school in the state, to sell these
lands would make it subject to taxa-
tion, and thereby greatly increase lo-
cal revenues lor school and municipal
purposes.
"Whether these lands would be sub-
jected to taxation upon their sale
would, of courne, depend upon the con-
tract between the state and the pur-
chaser. Assuming, however, that they
would be subjected to taxation, how
much local revenue would be produced.
The last report of the Govenor of Ok-
lahoma shows that the average assess-
ed valuation of farm lands is $3.31 per
acre, and the average rate of taxation
would be about ten cents. Two sec-
tions in each township, would make a
total of 1280 acres, which would yield
a tax revenue of ten cents per acre or
$128.00 per township.
"When the rent of these lands has
been increased to approximately its
value, there can be little doubt but that
the pro rata share of each township
would exceed the aggregate of the
amount which could be derived from
taxation and from the investment of
th eproceeds of a sale.
"But if the Iccal interests are to be
regarded as paramount to those of the
state, it would be better for the state
forgotten that the sale orf the land on
credit means that the purchase price
wili ultimately be collected, and when
co lected, there is a school fund in cash
to be deapoiled and abused by politic-
ians for selfish interests. This simply
casts upon the shoulders of our children
a burden which we ourselves are un-
willing to bear.
"The f jregoing argument, advanced
by the Editor of the School Herald
comprises practically all that is said by
the fair minded citizens of Oklahoma
in favor of the sale of the lands, but as
a matter of fact, none of these touch
the real issue in the case when consid-
ered from the standpoint of the lessee
himself. The po ition for which he
contends is. that by reason of his ten-
ancy and his cultivation thereunder, he
has a right to btiy tne lan 1, and that
by his occupancy he has earned it just
as much as his neighbor earned his
land under the Free Homes law, and
just here is the crux of the controver,
the milk in the cocoanut, the prize for
which the lessee maintains his organi-
zation and makes his demands upon the
politicians.
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CASTORIA
Should the people of the state permit
the lessees to create this evil condition,
and then reap the reward deliberately
brought about by their own wrong
But could the sale of these lands take
the qnestion out of politics? If the
land is sold for cash it is manifest that
political conditions would be worse, as
fifteen or twenty million dollars in the
hands of politicians in the handsjof po'
itions can hardly said to be aut of poli-
tics.
"If the land is sold on time the evil
day is is simply posponed, because the
the purchase price will ultimately be
collected, and when it is collected we
have a cash fund to be handled by poli-
ticians for the benefit of themselves
and the party which they represent.
And when the money is invested, either
by loans or the purchse of muncipal
securities, or by the sale of the lands
on credit, the state becomes an immen: e
lender, and no one knows better thin
the bankers of the state what an infh -
ence the lender can exert upon ti e
borrower, and for one to hope that
the school fund will be taken out of
pditci by letting the state become a
lender of twenty or million dollars is
NCW VOU* crTY.
"The lessee wants to buy this land
at government prices when it is worth j to indulge in fancy.
ten or fifteen times government prices. | "Neb aska after trying the plan of
Is his position sound? Has he a right I sale abandoned it and r ti nsd to t e
to buy this land, and if so, has he a ! plan of leasing, and the school lard
right to buy it at a nominal price? We ' commissioner, in a letter dated Jai -
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will say that he has been leasing and
cultivating the quarter section for ten
years and that he has Deen paying dui-
ing that time an average of fifteen
cents per acre per annum. Does this
give him the right to buy it at a nomi-
nal price? Because his annual payment
of rent has been about one-fifth as much
as it should have been is he therefore
entitled to buy the land at his own
price? To ask the question is to answer
it. This position of the lessee's sup-
ported by the same logic as that of the
tramp, who, hav insr been given fifty
cents by a benevolent gentleman, ur-
banely suggested that one good turn
deserves another, and asks the benevo-
lent gentleman for another fifty cents.
Because the territory has leased this
land to the lessee for ten years at
about twenty per cent of its value, it
now the duty of the Territory to
make him a present of the land itself.
I confess my inability te conceive the
logic of this argument. Have the
school land lessees made Oklahoma
what it is, or have the seven hundred
thousand people made the school land
lessees what they are? I believa the
school land lessee is entitled to fair
treatment. I also think the people of
Oklahoma are entitled to fair treat-
ment, and I am particularly impressed
that the school children of this and all
future generations are entitled to some
consideration in the matter.
"What are the rights of the lesset?
As a matter of fairness, not as a mat-
ter of right, I think the lessee should
always be given the preference right of
renewal. In addition to this, he is en-
titled to the present market value at
any given time of the permanent and
valuable improvements which he has
made, such as houses, fences, etc. And
where the land is leased to another,
that other should be required to pay the
former lessee this fair market value.
"This seems to me to be the sum of
the rights which the school land les-
sees have. When they ask for tbese
they would have the support of a unit-
ed people. When they ask for more
they should have the opposition of a
united people.
"Oklahoma, when it is admitted as a
state, is going to have a splendid op-
uary klTta 1602, to Prof. F. S. Elder,
then connectedwith the Universitiy of
Oklahoma, says:
" 'As far as we can honestly see,
this method of leasing has brought
but little, if any, political difficulties
into its leasing.'
' 'And in Nebraska at that time there
were 25,000 lessees holding 1,900,000
acres under lease. And in the same let-
ter the Nebraska Commissioner says:
"'We deem the leasing system the
greatest measure for the benefit of the
schools of the state that has been placed
upon our statutes; it is only too bad
that we did not have the experience of
later years at time of the adoption of
our constitutions or at least before the
greater portion of the desirable lands
have been placed under sale contract
or deeded,
"My own judgment is that when the
state has determined that it will not
sell these lands, that the question is
thereby taken out of politics in the ob-
jectlonal sense, because the agitation
by the lessees is for sale and when they
find that they cannot accomplish this
result there is no reason for further
political agitation or for further organi-
zation, but it then becomes a question
of each individual transacting business
on business basis.
"Of course there is no system that
can be devised for taking the school
fund out of politics, except to squander
it: because as long as there is a fund it
in in politics iu the sense that it is a
matter to be controlled and regulat-
ed by the people, and after all, that is
what is meant by a question being in
politics. The capacity of the people
for self government is the fundament-
al question of politics, and if the people
in their sovereignty will permit a small
number of persons, having a selfish in-
terest to serve, to dictate the politics
of the state, then it seems to {me that
it behooves!all thoughtful people to
look well to the foundation of our
government.
"Fifth, the sale of the lands on long
time, the state holding first mortgage
notes, bearing five or six per cent in-
terest, would mean the safest and the
most productive investment for the
school fund.
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