The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13
that seems to hang lower in the
heavens then at home. / heard

ONE OF THEIR THUNDER STORMS.
yesterday, but I am proud to say it
did not compare with what Minne-
sofa can dot was like the cry Of
a chorus boy compared with the 5bel
low of John L. Sullivan, halfsfull.
It may be that it was not al fair
specimen of what Montana can ac-
cOmplish, but when l listened TO it
and thought of the stony and awful
clatter of our disrupting and diabo-
lical detonations, sounding as if the
universe was made of boulders and
was all coming down with a crash,
l smiled and felt sorry for Montana.
The air here is light and balmy and
delicious. They tell me they have
never had a cyclone in these noun
tains. The tall peaks act like light
ning-rods, and draw the electricity
innocuously (as Grover would say
to the earth.
And this confirms the theory
which 1 propounded some years
since, that cyclones on the plain or
prairie regions could be averted by
by suspending steel pointed light
ming rods to anchored balloons at
great heights.
The cyclone represents the struggle
of the over-stocked electricity, of a
damp stratum of air, to force itself
through dry, non-conducting STRAIT
um, nearer the earth; and it can
only do SO by driving down long
tongue of the damp air through
the dry air; and, as soon as this ma
tural lightning rod is constructed,
the surplus electricity rushes to it
from all directions, and sets up the
spiral cyclonic movement. and than
the intelligent creatures of the
earth betake themselves to holes in
the ground.
DETECTED AND WRETCHED.
All this country is now in de-
jected and wretched condition.
Those worthy gentlemen across the
water and in Wall street, who be-
lieve that mankind would be better
off to be poorer, have shut up the
greater part of the mines; and
about two thirds of the miners, hon
est folk, who asked for nothing but
a chance to work like the devil for
a living, and denied even that poor
privileges; and are now wandering
over the earth, every day reminded
more and more forcibly of the ex-
istence of what the scientists call
"the digestive tract"
But if the gold-bugs increase their
fortunes why should these disman-
tied and disinherited regions COM
plain? Was not the world made for
the wealth-holder? Grover says So
and John Sherman says amen. And
what democrats and republicans
both agree upon cannot be wrong.
God bless them! And the fools are
necessarily in the majority in all
countries, anyhow; and will be un-
til the populists come into power.
GAMBLING WITH THE LORD.
But of one thing I feel assured
that Minnesota is one of the best
regions of the earth. Agriculturally
it is "the jumping off place." You
Jump off and light in the midst of
the sage bush of the rainless land.
Half way across North Dakota you
are in the desert, where men gamble
with the Lord for water and win
once in four or five years; and then
hang on by their teeth, with the
Sheriff pulling at their coat tails,
for another four or five years. In
Montana they irrigate and raise
fine crops, but they require two
things,-arable valleys and attain
able water; hence the fields are
small. 1t is pitiful to see human
energy contending against adverse
conditions: lives of isolation for the
means of mere existence. A good
farm in Minnesota is worth a county
west of it.
CATTLE RAISING.
In the cattle business in Mon
tana you can raise huge herds with
out hay or shelter; but, just as you
have swelled your flocks to patri-
archel proportions, comes terrible
winter, and sixty per cent perish,
humped-up, stupetied, starved, in
the deep ] SHOWS. With irrigation
you can raise hay enough for small
herd,-but4 not for flOcks of ten and
twenty thousand,-that is impOssi-
BILE.
] THE MORAL.
And so the moral l draw from my
journey is,-that any man who has
a farm in Minnesota should do his
level best to hold onto it. The
capitalists travel-they know the
value of our beautiful state,-hence
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