Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-23
That is the use in Keeping the
Territories out in the Code
ritbin twenty-five Years Every Acre
Between the Atlantic and Pacific
VIII be Redeemed.
mere are Many Trees now Standing in the
Yosemite Valley that We're old When
Christ was on Earth.
s-sc;al 10 the Gazette

FpOOKLTS, y. Y. Sept. % 1t was q
,reat anthem Of praise that went up
rom the crowded throngs at the
p-aoklvn Tabernacle this morning,
~5ere the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage,
p. D., preached as usual. The open
;rg hymn was:
No more let human blood be split,
Vain sacrifice for human guilt:
But to each conscience be applied
The blood that flows from Jesus side.
TIE subject of the sermon was, "From
ocean TO Ocean, or My Transconti-
rntaI Journey. - Text: Psalms lxxiii. 3,
8. He shall have dominion from sea
m sea. The preacher said:
What two seas are referred to? Some
might say that the text meant that Christ
"a. 70 reign over all the land between
he Arabian sea and Caspian sea, or be-
,Feen the Red sea and the Mediterranean
ssa. or between the Black sea and the
North sea. No; liz such case my text
would have named them. 1t meant from
srv large body of water on the earth
dear across to any other large body Of
water And so l have 2 right to read it:
He shall have dominion from the Atlant-
ir sea 10 the Pacific sea. My theme is,
America for God.
First consider the immensely of this
-rsspssi0n. II it were only q small tract
n land capable of nothing better than
a-g brush and with ability only to sup
rart prairie dogs, I should not have much
enthusiasm in wanting Christ to have it
aided 30 His dominion. But its iInmen-
s.r and ailuence no one can imagine
lnless. in Immigrant wagon or stage
coach or in rail train of the Union Pa
ellie or the Northern Pacific or the
Canadian Pacific or the Southern Pa
ct8r. he has traversed it. Having been
p-iylleged SIX times to cross this contin-
emf. and twice this summer. l
have come to some appreciation
Of its magnitude. California,
which I supposed in boy
hood from its size on the map, was a few
wards across, q ridge of land on which
one must walk cautiously lest he hit his
head against the Sierra Nevada on one
SIDE or slip of into the Pacific waters on
the other, California, the thin slice of
land as I supposed it to be in bOyhood,
have found it ia Ice larger than all the
states of New Eagland all New York
state and all Pennsylvania added to-
gether: and if you add them together
t1eir square miles fail far short of Cali
taruia North and South Dakota, Mon
taaa and Washington territory, to be
launched next winter into state
hood, will he giants at their
birth. Let the congress of the United
states strain point and soon admit also
Idaho and Wyoming and New Mexico.
What is the use keeping them out in the
cold any longer? Let us have the whole
continent divided into states with sena-
tarial and congressional representatives
and we will all be happy together. If
some of them have not quite the TeQus-
its number of people, fix up the constI-
tuition to suit these cases. Even Utah
will, by dropping polygamy, soon be
ready TO enter. MonOgamy has tri-
umphed in parts of Utah and will proba-
bly, triumph at this fall election
IN salt Lake City. Turn all
the territories into states and
if some of the sisters are smaller than
the elder sisters, give them time and
they viii soon be as large as any Of them.
because some of the daughters of a family
may he five feet in stature and the others
only four iGet, do not let the daug hters
five feet high shut the door in the faces
OF those who are only four feet high.
Among the dying utteTances of our good
friend, the wise statesman and great
author, the brilliant orator and magnifi-
cent soal, s. s. Cox, was the expressed
to move next winter in
congress for the transference of other
into states.
d" But, says someone, Gin calculat-
Ing the immensely of our continental
acreage you must remember that vast
reaches of our public domain are uncul-
tvated, heaps of dry sand, and the bad
lands Of Montana and the great Ameri-
can desert. - l am glad you mentioned
that. Within twenty-five years there
vii not be between the Atlantic and Pa
o1r coasts a hundred miles of land not
reclaimed either by farmers pillow or
miners cTOwbar. By irrigation, the
waters Of the rivers and the showers of
heaven III what are called the rainy sea-
sau VIII be gathered into great reser-
1o.rs and through aqueducts let
down where and when the
people want them. Utah is an OBJ
.ect lesson. Some parts of that territory
WHICH were so barren that a spear of
grass could not have been raised there in
q hundred years are now rich as Lancas-
Ter county farms of Pennsylvania or
Neztcnester farms of New York
.7 Somerset county farms of New Jer-
ley
Experiments have proved that ten
acres of ground irrigated from waters
,atnered in great neurological basins
sill produce as much as fifty acres from
ae downpour of rain as seen in our
eg.ous. We have our freshets and our
Eoughts, but in those lands which
Ire to be scientifically irrigated
aece viii be neither freshets nor
.rUughts. As you take a pitcher and
,et 1t fun OF water and then set it on
table and take drink out of it when
.ou are thirsty and never think of drink
-g pitcherful all at once, so Montana
md Wyoming and Idaho will catch the
2 us of their rainy season and take up
d. the waters OF their rivers in great
ltcbers of reservoirs and drink out of
lem whenever they viii and refresh
-sr land whenever they will.
Tie work has already been grandly be- |
TN by the United States government. |
.yer four hundred lakes have already |
cen officially taken possession of by |
be nation for the great enterprise of |
'cgation Rivers that have been |
o..ing idly through these regions, doing |
5thiug on their way to the sea, viii be |
3SSOed and corralled and Deuned M UNI