Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-11

end Of relatives in the revolutionary war, he
dropped his genealogical tree in the cas-.
and began NE as young lawyer at
Georgetown, Col. When he first prac-
tieed law there he told me that the
judges often pulled pistols out Of their coat
pockets and enforced order at the point Of a
gun He soon showed himself able to taks his
stand with the best Of them Georgetown soon
got too small for him and he went to Dem
yer. He Is now one of the sblest Senators from
the west and he has shown that his gray matter
Is fully equal to his blue blood. He never says
anything about his family. however and he has
made his way by sheer force and brains He is
man of wonderful brain power. He is a great
reader and gets more bv intuition and quick
ness of intellect than the plodders of the Sem
ate do by hard work. He has the muscles Of a
prize fighter and he is the personiication Of
physical viCor.
asked him as to the future Of the west. He
replied:
1T cannot be estimated. We have hardly
begun TO scratch the surface of our possibili-
ties. There are vast regions west Of the Missis-
sippi which will be eventually settled and the
center of population will soon be west of the
Mississippi large part of the west which
now considered worthless will be in the future
the best agricultural part of the United States,
and a vast manufacturing country will grow up
on the edge of the Rocky mountains.
COLORADO THE NEW YORK OF THE FUTURE.
Take for instance Colorado. 1t is looked
upon as made NJ of mountains and deserts 1t
will be within another life time the greatest
state Of the Union. It will surpass New York
and II will have the same political influence
some day that New York has now. In fifty
years its population will be great as that OF
New YORK, and il will Eurpass Pennsylvania IN
its manufacturing. We have got millions
upon millions out of our gold and silver mines.
bat we viii get more than this out of our coal
fields. We have thousands of square miles OF
the finest aHthrscite COAL some of the veins Of
which are twenty-five feet deep. You will not
lind this coal in any quantity outside Of Penn
sylvanla. If our coal veins could be spread out
over New York state, according to the estimate
Of a noted geologist, they would cover it with a
carpet of fine coal seven feet thick. There is
hrst-class iron near these coal fields and are
just beginning to develop our manufacturing
We have vast oil fields in Colorado. and We
are already supplying all the cities of the
United States west of Denver with coal oil.
CoLoRADo-AS AGRICULTURAL EMPIRE.
colorado is TO be the great farming empire
Of the United States" Senator Wolcott went
on. 1--WE have already millions of acres of
land under cultivation and every inch OF the
CoiorNo desert will some day be cultivated.
Within not many years we will have a great
storage system which will catch the water of
the Rocky mountains and spread it over that
vast area When il does every inch of that
land will laugh with the harvest. There is no
land so rich the Colorado desert. Wherever
you find the sage brush growing you may know
the land is full of meat. All it wants is water,
and with irrigation we will never have a failure
OF crops. 1 am not talking in a Boosting way
Colorado Is destined to be the greatest state Of
the Union. and the young men of the west are
to be the most influential men of our future"
THE YOUNG MEN OF THE WEST.
''The east does not understand the west" said
Senator Wolcott. 'Our people are made up of
the cream Of the east and the live men of today
live west of the Mississippi. They are Young
energetic and steel muscled. They are careful
thinkers, and L believe in the future they are
destined TO be the balance wheel which will
keep the machinery of the United States in
order. You know their position on the silver
question. They hold TO it because they believe
that both metals should be used as money. They
think 1t wrong to place the national currency on
credit. On gold basis. if We could turn all of
that metal that the world owns into coin, we
would yet lack so per cent of the money
CURED TO do the business of the world. This
means that four-tifths of our currency has got
to be on credit. The moment YOU begin to
base the national currency on credit you are at
sea and the only limit to its issue is in the faith
that the leaders of parties have in the govern
ment. The young men Of the west
are thinkers upon all political ques-
tons and their physical surroundings
are such as TO make them a great people Colo
RADIO Is fitted for the nursery of great men. The
greatest peoples of the past have been in the
mountains or on the seashore. Their physical
surroundings stimulate their intellects, breed
in them imagination. harden their muscles and
give variety to their life. In my state you keep
your lungs filled with ozone. You breathe
champagne as it were. and all that there is in
you Ia gotten out. People who get their living
out Of the fat loan Of the prairies breed into
mediocre sameness. Their towns are all the
same and all alike. The people every day
the same fiat uninteresting landscape. and
their only conversation is whether there will be
forty or forty-five bushels to the acre.
CAL BRICE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL BEE.
Senator Calvin s. Brice of Ohio has within
the past two years jumped away to the front as
a national quantity. He is one of the most in
fuential men Of the Senate, and he has made
friends by the thousands during his stay here
in Washington He is a man of wonderful
elearness of intellect, great powers OF organi-
cation and unbounding ambition. While was
IN Ohio visited the part of the state from
which he came and / found evidence every
where that a great big presidential bee has got
into his auburn hair, and that his schemes
are pointing to the White House. He hoped
that the presidential lightning would strike him
at the convention which nominated Cleveland
asst year, and he is in the White House race for
he future for all he is worth. There is no LIMIT