Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-07

! gloDe Tor place wherein IL can pc re-
gained. To the rich the proposition is
sim pie. Wealth Will proclre nearly all
that nature has given aud science and art
| developed, but the man of limited means
has to face problem which many have
failed to solve. Aud they have failed be-
cause of ignorance. The Rocky noun
tain region, as fruit growing section,
presents to those unfortunate ones who
have been assailed by dread disease, OPP
| portunities for restoration not found in
anyother locality. health giving eli
mate in which outdoor vocations can be
carried on over three hundred days
in the year will be the open
sesame to riches which will yet be pro.
duced In the fertile valleys of New Mex
leo. The coming here Of a population
bent upon health restoration and imbued
with that conquering spirit which is the
Americans birthright, will be the saliva
ton of the country and the solution of
economic and industrial problems so
puzzling to the inq nirer in such chan nels
of thought. For a quarter of century
or more the sons of America have in~
clined to the several, so-called
learned professions. Our sons and
daughters have left the country and
hocked to the cities on account of their
supposed social, literary, professional
and political advantages, but it has re-
manned for California to prove beyond
peradventure that the small fruit farm is
most favorable to all that is best in NOR
atty and in intelligence and that the pro-
duotion of fruit, demanding manual labor
coupled with intelligence, is an agent for
public veal and prosperity never before
ascertained in any country.
And why can not this state of affairs be
brought about in the arid region of New
Mexico? We have everything beneficial
which ls theirs. IT'S true we do not
raise the citrus fruits, but it is we'll es.
tablshed fact that year in and year out, a
bushel of apples is worth as much as a
box of lemons or oranges. The drIer
the climate and the more bountiful
the sunshine, the better the quality
of the fruit, and it is my predic-
ton that the time will come when
our fruit industry will be, if not our
greatest in the way of financial returns,
certainly the most elevating, the most
gratifying, the most satisfying of all.
1t will give employment to more people
than any other and will bring about a
grade of intelligence not now possessed
by the great majority of our Inhabitants.
We may easily look for population
| in the Rocky mountain country which
will be the seat of q civilization higher
and healthier than that of eastern cities
now celebrated as the centers of art and
learning.
That education which is drawn from a
study of nature emphasizes the highest
| ideals of Justice and genuine freedom.
| The restless discomfort, SO pronounced in
the present decade, confined, it is true to
the great centers of population, demon
strates that in the splendid blaze of in
tellectualism and scientific progress of
this century, something that tends to the
happiness of the whole people has been
| ignored. Is it because our civilization
ie one of startling contrasts? Is it be-
cause we behold thousands revealing in
riches and tens of thousands struggling
and battling for the mere necessaries of
| life? Is not the reason found in tnat
desire, distinctly American, to rise above
conditions of birth and a striving for
position which in the end is but an apple
of Sodom?
The man who shall work out the desti-
MES of republic, even now more as
sailed than ever in its history; the man
upon whom is placed the burden of
negativing Macauleys' prophecy as to
our future; the man in whom lies all
hope for the future stability of this ma
ton is he, reared in an atmosphere whose
purity is symbolic of government, ma
tonal and municipal, lifted to plane
and conducted upon lines which gueran-
tee a healthy, vigorous, all supporting,
Notwithstanding condition; and that man
is-the American farmer.