The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-07
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by "A hedge. On ore e;,ers the des-.t. alar
rem plain, only eagcbsu.-h IA cactus grow
ing out of IT. rEtclod sell. on tle Other
side waving fields of alfalfa, grain. vsG,c:.
b!es and ctier cro.a,, r.ca a.u lu&.:!ant.
The alfalfa produces three . ops il II yes.
and i, s-i4-did fo~i .Cr sheep and cattle.
Ii leeds 30 prophetic eye to see this region
all subjected 20 irritation and one OF TIE
greatest a;:riculttlr.! countries in the world.
With agriculture and mining Cl;tnufactur
ing will follow. The market will constantly
move nearer instead Of getting farther away
Vast sections of our country. now IL
habitel only 10y coyotes and roaming rec
skins. will become the seat OF the empire
of Il hundred years hence. have no fear
that America will grow too big. This re-
public is not going To get so large that 1t
will fall to pieces Of its own weight. nor
will the people. widely separated by dis
tance. suffer from lack OF heterogeneous
ness or common sympathy.
zone of the most wonderful things at
this day to ne in the far west is the like
ness of the people there to the people Of the
Atlantic seaboard. They are with us in
thought. speech. in feeling. in aspirations.
in patriotism. lnaeed they have more
patriotism than we seem to have farther
east. The nearer one gets to the Canadian
border the warmer appears the love Of the
United State, the more eager our citizeiis
to float the stars and stripes. Up in Mon
a near the British line | found American
citizens who kep: their flags flying day and
night. SO anxious were they to advertise
their country and their loyalty to it.
Notwithstanding the vastness of our
area and the immense distances etwee
our far eastern aud our far western posses
sions, every truly national thought appears
to be known in one place a> quickly as in
the other. What some one has happily
called thought waves 20 over tins couti-
try with astonishing rapidity. The habits
| OF the people are substantially the same
the forms of speech. the iioms. even the
slang We are indeed one.
IF this is true nOw with our present
methods Of communication. how much
truer will it be lC0 years hence. when to
the mail and the telegraph. the railway
and the stagecoach, are added postal te,
Biography. electric railways. long distance
and short distance t~elephoning rs cheap
and common is post routes, and heaven
only knows what inventions besides for
facilitating and c~heapening ccmmunica-
ton and transportation? Go into the pat.
ent Office. which is n part of this great bu-
reau, and see what we have done in lW0
years. With that before him no man dare
set n limit as to what may he done in the
next 100 years.
".As our country grows in both area and
population the means Of communication
will become more and more perfect. and
Lower California and PARKWAY Alaska will
be rs near to Massachusetts, New York and
Ohio in thought and sympathy as people OF
adjoining states or communities are to
each other. But for these means of quick,
cheap and easy communication, preserving
heterogeneousnes> among the people and
maintaining sympathy aud understanding
bet wecn them, the future Of this great re
public would not be rs bright as it is.
IA hundred years hence these United
States will be an empire such as the world
never before saw. and such a., vii! exist no
where else upon the globe. In my opinion,
the richest part of it. and Il section fully as
populous is the east. will be in the region
beyond the Mississippi"