Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-09-28

them II meant from any large
body of watcron the earth clear across
to any other l..rgc bndy of water. And
so have u right To read it; lie shall
have dominion from the Atlantic sea
to the l'ncitic sea- My theme is.
America for God
TIE IMMENSELY OF AMERICA.
First consider the immensely of
this procession. If it were only II
small tract of land capable of nothing
better than sage brush and with abili-
ty only to support prairie dogs, ]
should not have much enthusiasm in
wanting Christ to have il added TO his
dominion But its immensely and af
luence no one can imagine unless, in
immigrant wagon or stage coach orin
rail train of the Union Pacific or the
Northern Pacific or the Canadian Pa.
cilic or the Southern Pacific, he has
tlavcrscd it, Having been privileged
six times to cross this continent, and
twice this summer. have come To
some appreciation Of its magnitude.
California, which supposed in boy
hood from its size on the map, YVES q
Pew yards across. ridge Of land on
which one must walk cautiously lest
he hit his head against the Sierra Nc
vadl on one side or slip Off into the
Pacific waters OIL the other. Caifor
MIA, the thin slice of land Us sup.
posed it TO be in hoyhood. | have
found i. II he larger than all the STATES
of New England and all New York
state and all Pennsylvania added
together, and if you add them TO-
getller their square miles fall far
short Of California. North and South
Dakota, Montana and Washington
territory. 70 he launched next winter
into statehood. will be giants at their
birth. Let tic congress OF the United
States Strain II point ami soon admit
also idaho and Wyoming and New
Mexico. What is the use keeping
them outi.i the cold:dny longeri Let
us have Tie Whole continent divided
Isinto states with senatorial and con.
grcssional representatives and we will
al be happy together. If some Of
them have not quite the requisite
number of people, fix up the constitu-
ton to suit these cases. Even Utah
will by dropping polygamy soon be
ready to enter. NLon0gamy has
trlunlplcd in parts of Utah and
will probably triumph at this
fall election in Salt Lake City.
Turn all the territories into states and
if some of tic sisters arc smaller than
the elder sisters, give them time and
they will soon he AS large as any Of
them. Because some Of the daughters
of family maybe five feet in stature
and tic others only four feet. do moi
let the daughters feet five high Shut the
door in the faces oftlose who arc only
four feet high. Among the dying
uttcranccs Of our good friend, the
wise statesman and great author, tile
brilliant orator and magnificent
soul, S. S. Cox. was the expressed dc.
termination TO move next winter III
congress for the trlnsfcrcncc OF other
territories into states.
But" says some one, Tin calculat.
ing the imnlcnsity OF our continental
acreage you Must remember that vast
reaches OF our public domain arc UNI
cultivated heaps of dry sand, and the
bad lands of Montana and the great
American desert" | ann glad you
mentioned that. Within twenty-five
years there will not be between the
Atlantic md Pacific coasts 2 hundred
miles Of land not reclaimed either by
farmers pillow or miners crowbar. BY
irrigation tic waters Of the rivers and
tile showers of heaven i'll what are
called the rainy season will be gather
ed into great reservoirs and through
aqueducts let down where and when
the people want them. Utah is an OBJ
iect lesson. Some parts Of that territory
which wcr<so barren that a spear of
grass could not lave been raised there
in hundred years are nos rich as
Lancaster county farms of Pennsyl-
vania or Westchestor farms of New
York or Somerset county farms OF
New jersey.
Experiments have proved that ten
acres Of ground irrigated from waters
gathered in great neurological basins
will produce as much as fifty acres
from the downpour of rain as seen in
our regions. We have our freshets
and our thoughts, hut in those lands
which arc to be scientifically irrigated
there will be neither freshets nor
droughts. AS you take a pitcher and
get it full of water and then set it on
table and take drink out of it when
you are thirsty and never think of
drinking a pitcherful all at once, SO
Montana and Wyoming and Idaho
will catch the rains of their rainy sea-
son and take up all the waters of their
rivers in great pitchers of reservoirs
and drink out Of them whenever they
will and refresh their land whenever
they will.
The work has, already been grand
ly begun by the United States
government Over four hundred