The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-05-12

| OF the acreage of the United States. A steamer
leaving the Gulf may pursue her uninterrupted
course to the head-waters of the Missouri
more than 4, 500 miles. We have within this
| grand region an abundance of iron, coal, lead.
"copper" zinc. silver and gold; and wood and
timber. both hard ard soft, In great abundance
and variety; soil of unsurpassed rlcnness a
people in whose veins are mingled the blood OF
the Puritans. Cavaliers. HuguenOts, the Dutch,
/ the Celts the Germans and the Scandinavians
who sought this continent during the last GEN.
tury and of those of later immigration. Ii the
| mingling of the blood Of the most energeti
specimens of the best nations can pro uce
superior race. we have it here.
WITH TERRITORY
extending through twenty degrees of latitude
we have the best varieties of climate.
Emigration. which for 1000 years has been
flowing westward. here meets the current
coming eastward. We have area enough to
contain the principal countries of Europe
and we have in forest, mine and SOL resources
sufficient to shelter feed and clothe all the in
! habitants of those countries, IN addition to our
own
With all these resources, with an intelligent
and skilled people, the majority are poor, and
nearly all are deforming body or mind, or both,
in efforts to provide shelter, food, clothing and
other necessaries of civilized life for themselves
and their families.
with skill to make and operate machinery
enough 20 make all those things needed, to the
extent of the reasonable desires OF our whole
population yet men and women, able and
willing to do this work, are IDLE and suffering
machinery stands unused or works sluggishly
and this is largely owing to the want of a proper
system of exchanging products and commodi-
ties. The machinery of production and of in
! terchange stands idle for want of Ou to lubri
cate it. The Rothschilds of the world have a
monopoly of the
FINANCIAL OIL.
distinguished Englishman recently re-
marked that when on the Atlantic coast he felt
quite much at home though he was in a
British colony. but when he crossed the Ale
ghany mountains he felt that he was in Ameri-
Ca and among different people.
The Eastern people are accustomed to look
eastward across the Atlsr bic for precedents, and
! to follow them closely and look for foreign APP
plause for having done so. Let the people Of
/ the West think and act as Americans.
In this great central plain our steamboats,
and our railroad trains move like shuttles
WEAVING THE FABRIC OF A NEW SOCIETY.
Here we have both the wool and the warp :
our lines run north and south, as well as east
and west we are a moving people; come
/ into contact from every direction we modify
each others habits. both in thought and action.
/ We may be as
( in all that contributes to the physical and in
tellectual well-being of man we have the raw
material, and the men and machinery to change
1 its form. We have position and power. Let
us realize our responsibility. and fully and
properly use our power, first, to improve our
own social condition. and, by our influence and
example and moral force, to improve the con-
dition of mankind. Let our Government be
made to
! PROTECT DIR PEOPLE
/ from being impoverished by foreign legislation,
and let US solve the transportation question by
+ bringing the factories to or farms.
! Let us change our material into houses,
/ clothing, food means of instruction and recrea-
ton, so that all shall be supplied. Let us Sc
cure system of interchanging what is pro-
duced, so that all who produce may be sup
piled in exchange with what they need or de-
4 sire. Let those who cannot work will not
work be placed in intirmaries.
We have received much from those who
lived in past centuries let us add quota
/ to the fund to be transmitted to future genera
tons.
YOUNG MEN
yeomanry of the Mississippi valley Hold the
fortress, the citadel of the civilization of the
nineteenth century. Hold the best stronghold
of representative government, and let not our
civilization be plowed under like those that
have preceded it.
Make every school house rallying point for
enlistment and drill. Organize company in
every school district battalion i'll every town
/ ship, brigade in every county, division in
every Congressional district, corps in every
State. With your right resting the Rio
Grande, your left on the Pembina.
FORWARD
to victories to be gained not with shot and
shell, but with well-aimed ballots.
Six hundred years ago,
FRIAR BACON
ventured to predict the advent of the steam
ship and the railroad. May we not venture
to predict that the time will come when civil
lied men will be as well off as the savage Who
with day. hunting and fishing, which is but
! recreation for him, may supply himself and
! family not only with the necessaries of life, but
also with all that they have learned to desire -?
/ Hand-workers of the Mississippi valley you
have power to greatly improve your own social
condition, and thereby to advance the condition
of all peoples,
You are Individually responsible for the full
and proper use of your superior advantages
! MAY YOU REALIZE YOUR POWER AND RESPONSE
BILITY.