The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-21

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we go on at the rate of 5000, 0O0, 900 to,
S700,000.000 in a year, naturally, if we
do not spend the money in riotous
living (and do not mean at the table,
but l mean in riotous commerce), we
will at the end of few years have
all the money of the other nations But
today we find that we are borrowing
money in Europe. Money is higher in
New York than 1t is in st. Paul That
ls the result of what / might call
.riotous living" We are apparently
nlllng our mouths with dead Aea fruit.
and the time will come when we will
have to pay the penalty.
Agriculture Is Paramount.
In the Trans Mississippi year first
and great interest is in your agricuI-
ture | was glad to hear the resoIu-
tlon read indorsing and showing your
gratitude for the effort at irrigation 1t
is only the commencement
In the West you can, with proper ef-
tort on the part of the general gov
eminent, make room for homes for So
100000 of people, where today the land
is COW pasture-and few cows at that.
Laughter Some of the men who are
interested IN having plenty OF room
and the privilege of fencing in the gov
eminent domain to feed their cows do
not like 1t. They don't want people
to come and settle on these lands. But
when we think of the growth of the
whole country, when we remember
that the United States doubles it's pop
ulauon every thirty years, and that
within the lifetime of the majority of
those here present there will probably
be 150,000,000 people In the United
States, we naturally ask: Where will
they go? What will they do? The most
important thing this country has to do
Is to lind homes for its population, and
1t must find them in the Trans Mis-
slsslppi states. (Applause.)
The West Will Fill Up.
There is no other place for them.
Those gentlemen who asked you to
support them here there and every
where, and tell you what they are GO
ing to do for you, you hold them UP
20 tnat one point and tell them that
that is what you want
How We're the Western states i'm
proved? The people from the East
the adventurous young men, came out
and peopled the country west of the
Alleghenies. When I came here st,
Paui was far enough West-it was the
jumping off, place. Eighteen months
or two years before they It'd made a
treaty to cede the lands on the other
side OF the river. 1t was then Indian
land. In 1854 that treaty was made. ]
came here in 1856, and I have seen the
country grow. l am glad to have been
able TO help it to grow in some di-
rections? (Great applause.)
But your growth will be more in the
direction of the development of your
agriculture than in that of all others
combined; because, in the first place
you can get more people to go on to
the land than you can to go anywhere
else. And without people on the land
you will have no nation.
A LandIess Nation Mob.
Remember, that nation without
land would be mob, however big it is
tapplause), and all the most fertile
| land IN the world would be a wilder
ness II 1T had not people on it, You
must nave BOTH You people west of
the river may hope for the develop
ment OF your mineral resources. I hope
you will succeed. think it will be slow,
Gold and silver and coppg, will bear
transportation when you find them.
They are not so easy to find. There are
a great many prospect hides.
Last week I Travelled Through the
mountains in Western states, and ]
saw no end of prospect holes. thought
everyone of them was the grave OF
some mans hope! So much money and
effort have been poured out seeking for
the precious metalsi And that will go
on, but there is limit to the develop
ment OF any country on those lines.
Build Up Agriculture
You will not succeed as manufacture
Ing states for a 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 a good farm than you will in
poor mine. (Applause) Once the
metal taken out of the mine, it is there
no longer. But your farm, well culti-
waited, is mine forever! applause
And from a natural standpoint, while
many of you gentlemen are engaged
IN business, l ask you to stop and
think. If there has ever been a time
in the history of this country when
/ IT'S great agricultural interests were
not the backbone and sheet anchor OF
/ the nation. The farmers respond to
every call; they are orderly men who
are ready to do their duty as citizens
men who do not stand round the
street corner waiting for, somebody to
| give them 50 for their vote, and ready
to take one If they cannot get two
but men who will take their teams and
their neighbors and drive six or eight
miles to the polling place and cast
their votes as citizens. They mean to
do right Help them to do right.
Irrigation Is Necessary.
The country west of the Mississippi
mas grown up, you may say, kince the
Civil war. 1t is an imperial empire, but
the portion of 1t susceptible of cul-
tivation without supply of water
which must be furnished by irriga-
| ton, is small. The best chances are
taken, the best opportunities have
| passed, and now you must depend
upon the general government, and il
the general government will save q
small portion of the money that has
been spent in lathfng and plasterine
| the bottoms of rivers that never were
and never will be navigabIe, it will
create fund to irrigate all the land
know many areas where it will cost
from SIS to IS an acre to put water
on 1t. I will be glad to take the land
off their hands at s12, and will put
settlers on it at from SIS to $40, and
the man who buys it at SIS or $40 will
make more money than a man on any
farm east of the river. .(Applause.)
A Good Business Proposition.
If the government will spend this Sc
or $40 If you like, and can get SIS OF
| $20-a million acres that will cost them
| S10,000,000 will bring them SIS, 900 00C
or $40, 000,000-they will very soon
have fund that viii go on and re-
| quire no further appropriation. The
people will do it themselves, for the
land is well worth it. A man on 100 OF
800 acres of irrigated land is a prince
He is Independent of everybody. There
is no question as to that, none what
ever.
I saw ten days ago fields of wheat
| in which 1 would be lost if got six
| feet away; you couldn't see me with
my hat on, and they assured me, and
I believed it that it would WELD sixty