The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-09-27
: 41,3l3,1S6
Value.
$677,56l $50
5s7,9lS,s20
: 1902 200
Value. :
$391,70S 63l
293,093,035
Excess 1887. . .2.!6l BOG

| EACeS5 1901 =. .Ol ,oUb
Decrease in value. 1918, 595
The farm lands (excluding, of course,
| our unparalleled state) seemed to de-
| crease proportionately and to that same
| degree rendered valueless to the toilers
Here in our state the value of your lands
must be affected largely by the process OF
irrigation. 1t is no part or purpose OF my
remarks to discuss with you measures TO
he adopted for your relief or experiment.
Upon other occasions my views in this
respect, when proper, will be extended /;
but am an advocate that the burdens of
irrigation shall be taken off the shoulders
nj the individual farmers, and that insti
tutions incorporated for the purpose of
irrigation shall not be permitted to exer-
| else that privilege without direct license
from the state. | am an advocate. and
shall urge at the proper hour, the cession
to this state by the national government
OF all our arid lands. and that the irriga-
ton OF those lands be taken immediate
charge OF under proper commission, by
the state as such, and that the payment
for this irrigation shall be by a proper
tionate direct tax falling with uniformity
upon those benefited. OF what increase
such will have to the state can at best but
be speculative now
But, in my references to the condition
OF agriculture generally, do not wish to
indicate that our country, as great in
stitution, has not prospered and advanced
beyond all others. II is to the particular
application that this prosperity has made
or has failed to make for the farmers that
| would have YOU note. Hark, and be
patient to me, while | tell you Of the
| .tNt1 ntFp nt sN. 4.
teousness. And here | wish to express
my thanks for the liberty permitted in
using for my collections of figures the
statistics of DR.. Hawthorne and Dr. Tlffa.
ny, which have to some great extent APP
propriated.
Since the first agricultural state fair.
held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, be.
hold your country.
The beauteous philosophy, in all its
sublmity, of Milton has reached its &C.
compishment:
"Methinks ! see," said he, "a noble, q
puisssnt nation rousing itself like strong
man out of sleep and shaking her irwin
''ible locks. Methinks | see her as an
eagle nursing her mighty youth, and
kinding her undszzled eyes at the full
midday beams, purging and unscaling
her long abused sight at the fountain it.
self of the heavenly radiance"
ave are living, we are dwelling
In a grand and awful time.
In an age on ages telling,
To be living is sublime"
Or as Emerson has well spoken:
I'VE live in new and exceptional age.
America is another name for opportunity.
Our whole history appears like last
effort OF the Divine Providence in behalf
OF the human race"
We entered the first union of states
with the odd number 10, of an area OF
nine thousand square miles. We have
now 46 states and territories, stretching
over three million one hundred thousand
square miles. An area which the immor-
tai Gladstone was pleased to announce
was the natural base for the greatest
continuous empire ever established by
man." More square miles by hundreds
OF thousands than in the whole Chinese
empire; and hundred hundred millions
OF people can be sustained in our land
without increasing one foot in size sin
gle iarm or adding numerically to their
number. From this is plain the deduc.
ton that we are prepared to feed popu-
lation of one thousand millions OF souls.
territories bewilder our thoughts. Quot
ing from the Rev. Dr. Strong:
Washington, ii laid on the map of
Europe, would extend from London across
France and over spain, tapping Italy.
New Mexico is larger than the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
and if old Texas could fall on her face
and flatten her form over Europe, with
her head resting on the mountains of
Norway east OF the, Orkney islands, with
one palm of her hand covering London
and the other Warsaw, she would be
then stretched across Denmark, Ger
many, Austria, covering the northern
Italy, and resting her feet against the
tides OF the Mediterranean"
Nothing less than fancy can compre
bend how the country has been threaded
by the telegraph, scanned with railroads,
while at every mans door is his mail
thrown as though it were whisper from
a friend to another.
In 1889 we had only seventY-five post
offices and nineteen hundred miles of post
roads; we carried the mail by horseback,
and the whole ex jense, as shown by the
report OF Washington aud his successor,
did not exceed thirty thousand dollars.
Two qulres OF foolscap was enough TO con-
tain the full report of the postofiice de-
partmtnt. In 1899, one hundred years
after, in New York City alone, two mil
lion, seven hundred and two thousand
three hundred and ninety-six pieces OF
mail, weighing two hundred and sixty
eight tons, were received and disbursed
in single day. The mails were carrie
over 4l6,l59 miles, laid at 500 20 post
offices, at an expense Of thirty-two mil
lion four hundred dollars. There we Q
seven hundred and eishty-one thousand
miles of falarranh wire rnn ninp nlnng az