Western Kansas world., 1891-01-03

Bubbles fram Big Creek.

last irrigation bubble, l don't pre-
tend to use any brains), | want to
beg pardon of the readers of the
WORLD for having occupied valuable
space with nay superlative nonsense,
Money makes the mare co." SO
money must be plentiful to make
the DIRT fly on the big canal (be-
side which De Lesseps' trans-isth-
mean canals viii be mere drops in
the pail). We must be modest in
our early demands and not pull too
hard on the purse strings, but first
we must have an act passed to give
this work at good wages to the west
ern Kansas and Nebraska people.
All any one will have to do to get
work will be to become a bona fide
settler. It will make things hum,
for we want at least $4,000 men at
work on the main line before an
other year passes over our heads, to
say nothing of the scores of lateral
bitches to be dug.
The price of land will go up like a
rocket and stay like a possum on a
gooseberry bush. A sod palace
will adorn every quarter sec
tion in the state. The coyotes will
find no rest for the soles of their
feet and will flee to the mountains.
Oh, happy day for western Kansas!
Her defamers will then hide their
diminished heads in a hole with a
puckering string at the entrance.
But the money to pay this army
of men! Where is it to come from?
Out of the U. S. treasury, $100,000,-
900 a year. And why should we
not have it. We gave thousands of
millions to free the blacks and why
should we not give as much to re-
deem an arid empire and make it
blossom like a sunfower. What
contrast these two conquests pre-
sent. The one for the freedom of
the slave filled the land with blood,
orphans, widows, desolation. power
ty, sorrow and hate, all the legiti-
mate fruit of human slavery, while
the other for the conquest of the
desert and It's redemption to the
highest state of cultivation only
yields the happy fruits of peace,
plenty, happiness and homes for a
people. Note right here that this
work will not benefit us alone but
will relieve all the old states by
making room for all their unem-
ployed.
Blow to flinders that old abomina-
ton of a law that the United States
is a dumping ground for all the fools,
criminals and paupers of the world.
Keep 'em out. Be good to your
selves for a few years and note the
results.
But l must hurry. 1 want to
see this work progressing and its
makes all ordinary means
seem feeble and infnitesmal-like
the old woman who swelled the
volume of the ocean. We must
have a machine that will handle
a million cubic yards Of earth an
hour. l have thought like an in
spiration. Harness the hitherto
1ntamed power of the air to a cy-
clone excavator in this fashion: To
describe it [ will begin at the bus
ness end. An immense nozzle, say
'ix feet in diameter, gradually ex-
banded and extended until you have
! funnel that's whopper-a half
nile wide at the mouth-the whole
cyclone to be mounted like a big
,un en-basket, on wheels suitable
or the epurpose, the nozzel to be fit
ed with spiral fanges to give the
proper twist to the air as it is
'orced through. l shall turn. with
,ut cost to the brotherhood, this
Machine over to the alliance. 1t
Will take brains as well as muscle to
manage it, but with the mouth held
irmly in the face of a fair blizzard
II even ninety-mile-an-hour wind,
vho doubts but it will blow the dirt
ut of our canal into the Gulf of
dexico. | fear the speed of the air