Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-26
What is the use in Keeping the
Territories out in the Cold?
Within Twenty-Five Years Every Acre
Between the Atlantic and Pacific
VIII be Redeemed.
there are Many Trees now Standing In the
Yosemite Valley that We're old When
Christ was on Earth.
c-erier TO the Gazette.

from the crowded throngs at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning, ;
where the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage,
j.. D., preached as usual. The open
ng 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.
The subject Of the sermon was, From
ocean to Ocean, or My Transconti-
a.utal Journey. - Text: Psalms lxxiii. 8,
E. He shall have dominion from sea
% sea. The preacher said:
What two seas are referred to? Some
might say that the text meant that Christ
was 10 reign over all the land between
tre Arabian sea and Caspian sea, or be-
tween the Red sea and the Mediterranean
sea, or between the Black sea and the
>rth sea. No; in such case my text
would have named them. 1t meant from
any large body Of water on the earth
GEAR across 10 any other large body Of
water. And so I nave a right 10 read il:
j. shall have dominion from tie Atlant-
j. sea TO the Pacific sea. My theme is,
America for God!
FIRST consider the immensity of this
ra=s ssion. If it were only small tract
rs and capable Of nothing better than
SAGE brush and with ability only to sup
port prairie dogs, [ should not have much
o., husiasm in wanting Christ to have it
aided TO His dominion. But its immen-
shy and afiuence no one can imagine
unless, in immigrant wagon or stage
coach or in rail train Of the Union Pa
gtc or the Northern Pacific or the
Canadian Pacific or the Southern Pa
c.Uc, BE has traversed It. Having been
privileged SIX times to cross this coutin-
rut and twice this summer. [
lave come to some appreciation
of its magnitude. California,
which supposed in boy
hood from its size on the map, was few
Yards across a ridge of land on which
.ua must walk cautiously lest he bit his
head against the Sierra Nevada on one
side or slip of into the Pacific waters on
rise other, California, the thin slice Of
land as 7 supposed il to be in bOyhood, I
lave found il 10 be larger than all the
states Of New England ali New York
Gate and all Pennsylvania added to-
-4ther; and if you add them together
their square miles fall far short Of Cali
frnia. North and South Dakota, Mon
ra.a and Washington territory, TO be
launched next winter into state
...I, viii he giants at their
states strain q point and soon admit also
no ana wyoming ana New Mexico.
What Is the Use keeping them out in the
e..I any longer? Let us nave the whole
continent divided into states with sena-
t.rfaI and congressional representatives.
ana we viii all be happy together. If
some OF them have not quite the Tequis-
il. number OF people, Tx mp the coustI-
tuition TO suit these cases. Even Utah
VIA, by dropping pOly-amy, soon he
r.aIv to enter NOuogamy has tri-
umphed in parts of Utah and viii proba-
I.v triumph at this lali election
in Salt Lake City. Turn all
t.e territories into states ana
5t some OF the sisters are smaller than
f.a elder sisters, give them time and
f..v will soon be rs large as any OF them.
because some of the daughters OF a family
may ue FIVE feet in stature and the others
only sour feet, 90 not let the daughters
five feet high shut the door in the faces
.. those who are only four feet high.
.Houg the dying utteTauceS of our good
81 md the wise statesman and great
author. the brilliant orator ana maEnif-
cent soul, : 5. Cox, was the expressed
u-.aru .nation to move next winter in
congress for the tTausfeTeuce Of other (
territories into states.
DIS But, - says someone, ''iu Calculat-
I- the immensely of our continental !
g.reage yCu must remember that vast |
reaches Of our pub ic domain are uucul- !
t-ate8, heaps Of Dry sand, and the bad |
..as' of Montana and the great AmeTi- !
r.l desert. - am glad You mentioned |
.at within twenty-five years there /
VIA not be between the Atlantic and Pa |
..e coasts q hundred miles of land not |
laimed either by farmers pillow or
.uers' crowbaT. BY irrigation, the /
waters Of the rivers and the showers of /
heaven III what are called the rainy sea- |
sl VIII 0e gathered into great reser- /
v..rs and through aqUeducts let |
down where and when the /
r.aple want them. Utah is an Oh !
get lesson Some parts Of that territory /
H .feh were so barren that q spear of /
grass could not have been raised there in |
hundred years are now rich rs Lancas- /
county farms of Pennsylvania or |
Westminster farms of New York |
.- somerset county farms of New JeT- /
experiments have proved that ten
aras of ground irrigated from waters /
gathered in great neurological basins /
r.H produce as much as fifty acres from
r.a dowupour of rain as seen in our |
r.-5ous. We have our fTeshets and our
.ruzLts, but i'm those lands which
."H 20 le ECleuIucallN lIlgdltd
there VIII be neither fTeShrts nor
.-aughts. As You take pitcher and
1.t il fun of water and then set il on
a table and take q drink ont of it when
ra-u are thirsty and never think Of drink
ing uitcherlul all ut once, SO Montana
and wyoming and Idaho viii catch the
rains of their rainy season and take up
al. the waters of their rivers in great
pitchers of reservoirs and drink out of
r.em whenever they viii and refresh
their land whenever they VIII.
The work has already been ETaudly be-
gun by the United STATES government.
over four hundred lakes have already
zen officially taken possession of by
tle nation for the great enterprise Of
irrigation Rivers that have been |
rolling idly through these regions, doing
nothing on their way to the sea, will be
Iassoed and cOrrailed and penned up I'M
nh such time rs the farmers need them.
Under the same processes the Ohio, the