The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-10
"ALREADY UPON U.s."

hEnEHDI OFOiF 70.
Our friends who so fear imperialism
would were they to look around a little
$50 that il is already upon us.-Tribune.
It is upon US. The mailed hand Of i'm
perialism is upon the throat OF our re-
public. The constitution is trampled
under the feet Of the Imperialism OF
wealth which controls the government
The Declaration of Independence is de-
rided by the Tories who worship at
the shrine of imperialism. The institu-
tons of a free people are being scat
tered on Oriental winds. The citizens
of this nation are being enslaved Dy
the money power. Other peoples are
bought and held as chattels. There
are spots on the sun Of the republic
Imperialism is indeed upon US. 1t Is
useless to deny it longer. When Hanna
corrupted the st. Louis convention, as
Republican newspapers admit that ne
did. when he secured by fraud and in
limitation the nomination and election
Of Mckinley upon whose administra-
tion he holds a mortgage, it was GER
tain that the money power had come
to make the most of it's opportunity.
It is useless to tell an intelligent pub
lie that Hanna took 1.-The reins of gov
eminent for the good of the people. He
represented the Imperialism of central
lied wealth and power in that cam
paign. He represents it yet.
Imperialism is upon US, but our con-
temporary's apologies and fluctuations
come with poor grace from one who
knows and has admitted the truth of
these allegations concerning the ad-
ministration.
when $4,000 900 free men occupy all
the space between two great oceans"
II says, we must expand. But do these
people occupy all this space? If so.
why do we boast of illimitable areas
homes for 100000 people'-whieh
the money squandered in the conquest
Of Aeiatic tropics might transform into
homee-American homes for American
citizens
The United States needs no outlet
for surplus population. SO long as the
doors Of immigration stand wide apart,
&c is criminal folly TO talk about send
ing American soldiers to Oceanica to
pave an outlet with their bones.
The United States needs no outlet
and if it did it would be poor business,
with an average population Of nineteen
persons to the square mile, to LOOK Tor
a home for a surplus population in
thickly settled section Of the Orient
where there are eighty-seven persons
to the square mile.
The United States isn't in any imme-
date danger of an overflow. If there
we're 1t would be the part Of wisdom
to buy. at no matter what expense, con-
tisuous territory or at least territory
in the western hemisphere.
There is plenty of room at home to
grow. There are acres for millions yet
unclaimed. There are sections all over
the west as large as the New England
states and far more fertile. ready to be
occupied and capable of the highest
state Of cultivation as soon as the water
is turned on. which is possible at half
the outlay that this so-called outlet in
Asia seems 10 require.
The conquest Of irrigation is the con-
quest that will benefit the people, that
will develop and fructify the west. This
is the kind of expansion home-seekers
want
According to the last report OF the
secretary Of the interior there are in
the United States. exclusive Of Alaska,
579.36S,274 acres Of unapprOpr.ated and
unreserved public lands. This is ter
ritory equal in extent 10 France. Ger
many. Italy. England. Scotland. Wales.
Ireland. Austria. Hungary and Greece
combined. Of this area 546. 54S 654 acres
or more than 81 per cent are in the
states and territories OF Arizona. Cali
fornia. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Ne
vada. New Mexico. North Dakota. Ore
gon. South Dakota, Utah, Washington
and Wyoming.
BY an official classification the gov
eminent considers 332.176.O0O as desert
land. because it is not under irrigation.
But twO-thirds of this area can be re-
claimed and experiments have shown
that O great deal Of this desert land is
highly productive with water turned
upon &c.
The productive, arabic portion of the
area classed as desert. If the figures
furnished by the interior department
are reliable. is more IAN twice the size
Of France. and about four and one
half times the size OF the United King
dom. These so-called desert lands are
not like the Great American Desert or
the Mojave Desert, but in this classif-
cation is placed lands that do not pro
duce native grass in sufficient quantity
to make IN ordinary crop Of hay IN
usual seasons. and lands which. with
out irrigation, do not contain sufficient
moisture 10 produce a natural growth
OF trees or make an agricultural crop
of any kind in amount to make the
cultivation thereof reasonably remu-
usrative.
Real deserts are not included in the
figures. but al are classed as desert