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every crime in th' calendar to make three per cent 

 intrust; capital, that don't care enny more for a 

 fightin' chance to earn a dividend than I do for me 

 lim 's. No, no, byes ! Capital '11 go anywhere there 's 

 a chanct to make money a little thing like guv'ment 

 regulation won't drive capital away. But grafters, 

 that's another thing. Them that comes here like a 

 man would go to a bank an' say to the President: 

 'Here, you, I wanna be a director an' get let in on a 

 couple of hundred per cent profit for me money, or I 

 won't play,' them fellers is scairt away jest like 

 the bank would scare them. What 'capital' like 

 that is lookin' for is a roulette wheel an' it wants to 

 own the wheel. 



" An' as fer the poor man," McGee went on, "he's 

 got a whole lot more chance on the National Forest 

 to-day than he has off en' it. Haven't I got twenty 

 and more mining claims here meself an' no trouble 

 in gettin' any of thim. 'The rules is so an' so,' says 

 the Supervisor, 'the forests is to use, so long as not 

 abused,' says he, 'an first come first served,' he says. 

 If ye' want to build a road, or use water power, or 

 let y'r sheep or cattle run on th' forest, ye git y'r 

 permit an' pay y'r fee, an' there y' are. If ye 

 wanta take out a homestead claim, or a mining claim, 

 or cut wood or run a sawmill the way is simple to 

 folley. There's no running to a town meetin' or a 

 crooked offishul or a politician to make it easy for 

 ye to do somethin' ye ought not to be allowed to do 

 for a consideration. Ye don't haf ' to bother with 



