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First. Repeal the Timber and Stone Act. 



Second. Pass the consoHdation bill putting the Gov- 

 ernment forests under the management of the Bureau 

 of Forestry. 



Third. Provide by national legislation that every 

 acre of agricultural land that can be reclaimed under 

 the national irrigation system must be saved for the 

 homemaker who will go there and make a home upon 

 it. 



In that way you can break up the timber combina- 

 tion, and in that way only; because the land thieves 

 of North Dakota, under the Commutation Clause — the 

 land thieves of Montana under the Desert Land Act — 

 the land thieves, under the Timber and Stone Act — 

 well, perhaps I might be permitted to mention Oregon 

 in this connection — are working together. You will 

 have to explode some of those Japanese shells among 

 them to break up the combination. 



The situation in Oregon reminds me of a saying of 

 Mayor Henry, of the city of Oakland, out in California, 

 twenty or more years ago. There had been a good 

 deal of rottenness in the municipal affairs. The newly- 

 elected mayor was something of a rival of Mrs. Part- 

 ington. His knowledge of Greek names were a little 

 mixed, and in his inaugural address he declared with 

 great energy, "Gentlemen, I am going to clean out 

 the Oregon stables!" 



I really think we are going to get the Oregon stables 

 cleaned out. 



To show you why we cannot depend upon Congress- 

 men from the timber State of the West to correct this 

 enormous evil, a year ago both Oregon Senators and 

 both Representatives from Oregon were bitterly op- 

 posed to any change in the land laws. Representatives 

 Hermann and Williamson both went before the com- 



