The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-20

sufficient to establish them and make
them at once contributors to the gem
eral prosperity, instead of adding to the
demands which charity today is finding
almost insupportable.
THE population of the United States
today which Is given at some seventy
six millions of persons. has been in
creasing in a very significant ratio, and
this increase must continue in proper
ton to the total population, until the
end of the half century will witness a
population probably double that the
country now contains and a consequent
doubling of the demands upon the pro-
duction and public Institutions of the
various states. The magnificent extent
of the United States, however does not
make this contingency particularly I'M
desirable or in any wise fearful. for
millions upon millions of fertile lands
west of the Mississippi river and even
beyond the Rockies almost to the con-
fines of the Pacific ocean, and millions
of fertile acres in the great south, are
yet unproducing. only awaiting the
coming thrift human energy and hui
man enterprise to blossom like a rose
and thus contribute to a general pros
perity.
with the extension of the irrigation
system and the conservation of the
waste waters of the Mississippi valley,
the arid sections of the west will become
as profitable as the lands which make
up the beautiful Mohawk Valley of the
Empire state. Human necessity will
force conditions which today may seem
impossible of contamination, and in
proportion to the demands made by an
increasing population, so will nature
conspire to human benefit, and unpro-
ductive areas will be made to contribute
their quota to the assistance of the new
er increasing human family.
Il state again that in my opinion the
Transmississippi commercial congress
should adopt some resolution laying
stress upOn the necessity for a much
more acute restriction in the matter of
foreign immigration. While certain re-
strictions at present prevail, not two
per cent of the aliens for admittance at
various sea ports are returned to their
home country because of a failure to
come within the standard of the United
States government. These standards
are too low and should be altered or
amended so as to take into consldera-
ton elements not now included In the
custom house examination. believe the
evils of unrestricted immigration have
become so apparent to the people of the
United States that there will shortly
be a combined movement on the part OF
American citizenship to close the doors
which are now admitting everybody
who knocks without
1.-The influence of the immigrant upon
the political conditions in this country
are such as to seriously endanser the
right of purely American c1tlZenshlp
and are rapidly engendering soclallstlc
doctrines and practices as is evidenced
from time to time in the greater cities
of the east and middle west. Anarcn-
ism. communism and socialism, in thelr
present day meaning and intent, shouIo
have no place for harbor in the 1ree
states. nor should the teachings nor
ractices of their advocates be consld-
cred nor tolerated.
s"Today the exports of agriculture and
manufactured supplies to Europe anu
the Orient more than exceed the I'M
ports from the same countries Ihe
value of farm products during the last
ten years increased over two and
quarter billions of dollars, or almost one
hundred per cent. There was an N
period of $3.50 900, 900. while the increase
in the value of improvements and build
ings reached the enormous totals OF
81 1895. 600. 900. The value of implements
and machinery owned by farmers in
creased from $494, 100000 in 1890 to $751;
0O0, 600 in 1900.
I'm this connection the fact that the
wheat of the North and West, the cot
ton of the South and the corn OF the
West is largely going to the hungry
mouths and looms of Europe is proof OF
the magnificent advances which agri-
culture has made in the United states
Leaving out the possibilities or manu-
factl1re for the American product is now
connecting in all the markets of Eu-
rome and the East, it must be apparent
that the home consumption increasing
will necessitate a much more EXTENDED
system of cultivation in order that we
may keep up our exports ana nla I
tain the position we have reached III the
old world and at the same Tune, COIL
tinue to feed our own people. No coun-
trv under Gods blue sky today enjoys
the prosperity which environs every fer-
tile landscape or smoky center OF rae
tory life to the extent as tnat ehJoyeu
by the United States.
wet combination and control makes
it possible to subvert this general pros
nerity and make it a means OF 1ncreas-
ing merely individual wealth held In the
hands of the few. The extension OF
agriculture into the great plains ana
valleys of the West must so increase
the productions as to make individual
control impossible, even when the mag
nificent fortunes of the individual or
corporation be taken into consideration
We need these great acres tllled we
need energy and Drawn to work. out the
final destiny of this great country. The
human elements which have made the
East a teeming hive of industry ana OF
wealth must find their way into the
great West and put into movement the
things which at present lie dormant,
awaiting the period when : human ne
cessity must needs realize upon
yet the future of this section and or
o,1r great country itself must not be
placed in jeopardy through the influx of
undesirable tenants, as 1t We're mag
inc the next ten years witnessing eight
millions of aliens, and possibly unde-
sirable persons. merged into the hu-
man current of our country, becoming
mart of its political power and insistent
in their demands upon the institutions
which a free American citizenship has
built and maintained. Yet, should the