Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-26


Mississippi Commercial Congress are
of interest and value to every pre-
ducer:
ALANDLEss NATION A MOB.
Remember, that a nation without
land would be mob. however big il
is. tapplauseJ. and all the most fertile
land in the world would be wilder
ness if it had not people on it You
must have both. You people west of
the river may hope for the develop
ment of your mineral resources. |
hope you will succeed. l think it will
be slow. Gold and silver and copper
will bear transportation when you
find them. They are not so easy to-
find. There are a great many pros
pect holes
Last week l Travelled through the
mountains in western states, and |
saw no end of prospect holes. |
thought every one of them was the
grave of some mans hope, So much
money and effort have been poured
w SSShIuS ltl UllC plSSlOuo liz gttIp'
And that will 60 on, but there is
limit to the development of any coun
try on those lines.
BUILD UP AGRICULTURE.
You will not succeed as manufac
turing states for long, long time to
come Then build up your agriculture
Take the question up intelligently
without bad temper, and work to-
gether. Looking to the development
of your agricultural interests you will
get more money out of the ground
year by year on good farm than you
will in poor mine. Applause. Ouce
the metal taken out Of the mine, it is
there no longer. But your farm, wei.
cultivated, is mine forever. zap
plauSe.)
And from a natural standpoint
while many Of you gentlemen are en-
gagged in business, | ask you to stol
and think if there has ever been
time in the history of this countr
when its great agricultural interest
were HUI tlC DuChlJJuC anu ollCCU Oil
Choir of the nation. The farmers re
spond to every call: they are ORDER
men who are ready to do their dut
as citizens. men who dO not stan
round the street corner waiting tC
somebody to give them s. for the
vote, and ready to take one if the
cannot get two, but men who wi
take their teams and their neighbol
and drive six or eight miles to tfl
polling place and cast their votes q
citizens. They mean to do righ
Help them to DO right.
IRRIGATION Is NECESSARY.
The country west of the Mississippi
has grown up, you may say, since tll
civil war. 1t is an imperial empr
Nut the portion of it susceptible
cultivation without supply of waite
which must be furnished by irrig
ton, is small. The best chances a
taken, the best opportunities Ia
passed, and now you must DEEPER
upon the general government, and
the general government, will save
small portion of the money that b
been spent in lathing and plasterlt
the bottoms of rivers that never We
and never will be navigable, it wi
create fund to irrigate all the Ian
] know many acres where it wi
cost from s. to SIS an acre to put wat
on it. / will be glad to take the lar
Off their hands at Sl2, and will pl
settlers on it at from 8l5 to $40, al
the man who buys it at SIS or s2O W
make more money than a man on 81
farm east of the river. tApplause.j
4 GOOD BUSINESS PROPOSITION.
If the government will spend til
So, or $40 if YOU like, and can get S;
'or S20-a million acres that will co
them $4,000, 600 will bring them 81;
o0O, 600 or $4,000, 600 they will We
soon have a fund that will 90 on al
require no futher appropriation. i
people will do it themselves, for
land is well worth it. A man on
or 32O acres of irrigated land is
prince. He is independent OF evel
body. There is no question as to tii
none whatever.
i saw ten days ago fields of whe
IN which / would be lost if | got 5
feet away; you couldn't see me wi
my hat on, and they assured me, al
L believed it, that it would yield six
bushels to the acre. and oats seven
and seyenty-tive bushels to the acI
Beautiful farming. Nota weed in
thousand acres. There are many hu