Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-06-12

III Of june ootahIe speeches of his
the nG s The railroad question,
he md management very ex,
fnershlp also talked of genera
Gyely nsts and trusts. The speech
bss ntsih y hut below will be FOUND
", important f~eatures' roa,-
kmerSs .arm Is generally understood
bnc tns having and selling between
lluos - and in a wider sense, pc.
|dnals, anities and nations. BEHIND
eosnrols leadership has folloWeu
W. and Christianity 10 the re-
carts OF the world. Inc coniIhsn
atoms of the Worla hase,
ehenrg the nations of the earth.
700 nnme1t OF commerce Is the ell
fessopnntry 10 find a market Tor It's
s@s",ionsy or to supply itself with
y sor its necessities, or 10 furtner
~ t,s means of commercial ex-
e Tbo commercial expansion OF a
he hest index of It's growth.
erowth is both domestic n
Taiiowing the Civil war came a
history of our country or
~sonsIoument. which has been the
Of the world. Since the close OF
II, in 1885. the enormous territory
n the Mississippi las grown from
= settlements into great, popuious
aoI,hv states, The population of
49, States in 1860 was about thir-
1. milIions, The succeeding thirty
80 ending in 1900, carried II to
~ sx millions, and to-day, We are
psIrg al the rate of a million and a
year The various census reports
,Sst the population of the United
sbout doubles every thirty years,
4, nv 1920 we would, at this ratio,
! nopulation of me hundred and
millions of people.
Ahe mast the public domain suited 10
alton of the soil. producing every
crop, has furnished homes Tor the
plying population. To-day we nave
E reached the limit Of our public do
which can be made TO furnish
for an intelligent and enterprising
alton. In many of the Western
are enormous areas of the best
which. with irrigation, can be made
kduetiye In the Highest Degree.
hundred and sixty acres OF land,
4 certain supply of water, which
insure TO the husbandman a bounti-
aryest, is equal 10 twice that area
the land is subject to the natural
lions of either too much or too lit
fainfall. One-half of the population
United States is occupied directly
directly In the cultivation of the
anu ! think fully one-half of the
capital Of the country is invested
rms and their belongings. and when
one 10 the questions Of intelligence,
btism ana good citizenship. the agri-
bal population stands out to-day as
in the past, as the great
Sheet Anchor of the Nation.
wealth Of the world comes from the
the forest. the mine and the sea.
our country has been blest with
erful mines of coal. iron, gold, silver
all the other valuable mineral pro-
onS, with magnificent forests of use
Hmber, still the farm has, from the
ming, been the foundation of our
~ ing wealth and greatness. During
asst three years the balance of our
with other nations. that ia, the
PIT We have sold in excess of what
have bought, has averaged about
hundred millions Of dollars an
and twO-thiTds of this has come
through the export of the produce
SOIL | do not wish in any manner
little the Importance of u growing
pfactures, or their relative value in
commerce Of the country. The Sc
OF their foundations has always
upon the agricultural growth OF
patton, and in the future IL must
hue 70 rest there. Every manufac-
every merchant, every business
throughout the land is most deeply
SIZED IN maintaining the growth and
opment OF u agricultural re-
w past we have been in the habit
ssing mat Uncle Sam was rich
= 70 give us all a farm" but to-
as said before. the arabic land
PIE Tor agriculture, without an ar
supply OF moisture, Is practically
few limited communities Of the
nrlgation has been commenced by
may De called individual Effort
= 20 ,aiverse laws, made TO suit par
interests, the irrigation of large
attended by greater difficulties
can De well surmounted by in
,i enort. The policy of a broad.
snehslve, national plan of irriga-
hIs : ueeh urged upon congress with
y success in the past. However,
n.y. Prise OF such magnitude and i'm
y " the nation as a whole, which
ANT VIII grow as our population
Vehaot be turned aside or lost
81, LOT the reason that every citizen
state In the Union Is
'py and vitality Interested
question. President Roosevelt who
I'LL some Of his time in the semi
Vsnhs OF the West, has taken an
interest IN this subject, and If his
~ anu OF others who are working
same end, result In
nrv ~ etaslons Will rejoice in the
ham - tnls work, while they build
ssndS,,a,gs comfortable homes In the
countr1 heys covering that portion of
nv which Is now given up as
ranches for cattle and sheen
AZ ypsI irrigation these valleys will
kjons" vomes Tor intelligent and in
nd sbppeople,, and the number of cat
many fold. WIN ~
Inv hrst time in the history of this
snvusands of our farmers from
WisaoNa, Kansas. Missouri. Mich
Ehomas uislh and Minnesota, are seek
e 10 tn the Canadian Northwest,
tfy. and eheap lands offered In that
lands I, " me difficulty of securing
m OF irrIne United States. A wise
lent can hsdllon by the genral gov
TitSSuut a source of income Lands
al Irrigation are given away or
al X auolnlhal price, can be sold as
Dollars are furnished with water. at
ponld ~ acre or upwards, and the
half Up o. little, If anything, more
AM mat sum. ~
y very urge too strongly on the mart
ana M ~ who wishes his country
berous az desires that all shall be
Fosperonnn order that he himself NAV
The groauas with them, the im~nortance
r pghlin llg necessity of taking care
Eve /, Domain in such a way as 70
4 snraaor generations now unborn.
expectas mat no n here Tonight
nd farn - see the time when farm
: Of IN sons from the hest
their -, west would be forced to
IS In a SSountry and their flag TO seek
TN, i9reiigR country.
Ions IN %, states has many social
be In tS fstie in the near future, and
those Wis connection win take the
Vine a nao desire to sit under their
poplIation population is a wilderness
hsa hallway Importance,
Pnal sta ag the question from n broad
kuanca s.ndpoint, the next interest in
tt Of ~ agriculture is the railway
living Is within the memory of
s1necoa twenty-five years ago n was
eve. possible that 70 ito,a xs