The morning call., 1893-02-12

inch Of the Colorado Desert will some day
be cultivated. Within not many years we
will have great storage system which viii
catch the water of the Rocky Mountains aud
spread it over that vast area When II does
every inch of that land viii laugh with the
harvest. There Is no land so rich as the
Colorado Desert Wherever you find the
sagebTuSh growing you may know the land
j. fun Of meat All II wants Is wafer. and
with Irrigation We will never have failure
of crops. / am not talking liz a Boosting
way Colorado is destined to { e the great
est State Of the Union. and the young men
or the West are 10 be the most influential
men Of our future"
Tell me something about the young men
Of the Wes;?'
The East does not understand the West"
said Senator WOlcott Our people are
maze up Of the cream OF the East and the
live men Of to-day live west OF the MissiS-
sippi. They are young, energetic and steel
musc!ed. They are careful thinkers, and
believe IN tie future they are destined to
be the balauce-w heel which Will keep the
machinery of the United States in order.
\ on know their position on the silver qUes-
ton. They hold 10 1t because they believe
that both metals should be used as money.
They think 1t wrong 10 place the national
currency on credit On a gold basis, if we
could turn all Of that metal that the world
owns into coin, we would yet lack 50 per
cent Of the money required 10 do the bust
ness OF the world. This means that four
rfIhs Of our currency mas got 10 be on
credit The moment you begin to base the
national currency on credit you are 1T
sea and the only limit to its issue is in the
faith that the leaders Of parties have in the
Government The young men Of the West
are thinkers upon all political questions,
and their physical surroundings are such a
10 make them q great people. Colorado is
fitted for the nursery Of great men. The
greatest peoples Of the past have been in
the mountains or on the seash0re Their
physical surroundings stimulate their IN
tellects, breed in them Imagination. harden
their muscles and give variety 10 their lie.
In my State Won keep your lungs filed with
ozone. \ on breathe champagne as It were,
and all that there IS IN you Is gotten out.
People who get their living out # the fat
lOam Of the praiTies breed into mediocre
sameness. Their towns are all the same and
all alike. The people see every day the
same fat, Unnterestjng landscape. and their
only conversation is whether there viii be
forty or forty-ive bushels to the acre"
Senator Calvin :. Brice Of OHIO has
within the past two years jumped away to
the front as A national quantity. He is one
Of the mnst Influential men Of the Senate,
and he has made friends by the thousands
during his stay here in Washington. He is
a man Of wonderful cearness Of intellect,
great powers OF organization and unbound
visited the part Of the State from which
he came and | found evidence every
where that a great biz Presidential bee has
gotten into his auburn hair and that his
schemes are pointing 10 the White House.
He hoped that the Presidential lightning
would strike him ut the cOnven ton which
nominated Cleveland last year, and be is in
White House race for the future for all be
is worth. There is no limit 10 his ambitiOn
and be has a far better chance of success
than one would at a first glance imagine.
He comes from a pivotal State. He is at
present the strongest Democratic quantity
in that State AMI he is making himself
stronger every day
There is no man In the Senate who has
better political organization than Mr.. Brice.
He keeps corps of clerks constantly at
work sending out documents. seeds and let
ters 20 his constituents. and he has studied
the people of Ohio so that he knows them
almost down to individuals. Every editor
in the State has received from BIN a map,
and nearly every prominent Democrat has
big photograph of Brice. which has been
mailed to him with the Senator's compli-
mente. Throughout the back districts Of
Ohio you can find letters from Senator
Brice to leading farmers which are framed
by them and hung up in their parlors