The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-10-13
How irrigation Will Develop the One and Ger
tain'y Secure the Other.
ROOSEVELT'S INSPIRING AMERICANISM
While Creating a New Agricultural and Hort-
cultural World at Home, He Would
Establish Commercial Pres
tge in the Orient.

eastern manufacturer got such a market
as is not TO be found anywhere else out
side OF the Mississippi Valley and the
prosperity OF the eastern manufacturer
has in turn brought prosperity TO the
eastern farmer. Uncle sam has a great
deal OF land and great deal OF water
in the West. That land is arid, and
the water, which would make it pro-
dnctive. is running to waste The prop
osition is TO irrigate these great noun
tain valleys and plains and build more
homes and make more markets.
The eastern manufacturer will sell
in the West. but the western farmer will
not sell in the East. except fruits and
things like that which will not compete
with the eastern farmer. This great
work will take time. 1t will require
many years TO wet all that dry land.
but we will begin now and go along
carefully each year until the task is
done. Not many dams or new neighbor-
hoods will be started before the business
men OF the East will have their travel
ing men in the West to sell goods. Think
OF this grea: home market; the whole
world wants to get into the United
States to sell things, but our home mar
ket Is for ourselves first, TO develop 1t
to the fullest extent.
Will Equnlizo Population.
The reclamation OF arid America will
TO a great extent balance our one-sided
development. The eastern half OF the
United States to-day has a population
of over T0OOO,0O0, while the western
half contains somewhere in the neigh
borhood of G.OO0,OOO, or less than 10
per cent. of the whole The new irriga-
ton law is working satisfactorily. The
country was fortunate in finding a bur-
eau of the government already equipped
to take up the question of surveys and
construction Immediately. This is one Of
the greatest pieces of work which has
ever come before this government The
dams, bitches and weirs to be construct
ed will be the greatest in the world.
They will stand not for generations, but
for centuries and contribute to the we'll
being OF hundreds of millions of people.
Arid America will contain by far the
greatest irrigated area of any country
ia the world.
VAST Oriental Commerce.
On the other hand no person at all CON
versant with current affairs can doubt
the great future of the Orient The
lands that border upon the Pacific Ocean
contain nearly one-haf the total popu-
lation of the globe. Because of made
quate transportation facilities upon the
land, the people are more dependent than
western nations upon maritime com
merce. The Orient. What magic In the
name. The fabulous storehouse OF mys-
terry, wealth. art, religion. When Amer
lea was undiscovered, England the home
Of rude savnges, Greece and Rome I'M
heard of in the dim. dark ages OF mys-
ticism. before the dawn of history, lived
and Aourished the wonderful Orient, the
far East the islands beyond the sea.
China deiics the world in age. popula-
ton and industry. II all the inhabitants
of the world were stood up in one line,
every fourth man would be n Chinaman.
The Pacific Ocean, which has for CEN
turtles been washing the shores OF our
western boundaries, has said to us:
Here lies the East; this is the way to
India" But it has spoken into dumb
ears. We heard but we needed not.
Others have taken warning that the
great commercial development of the
future lies upon the broad Pacific. and
have inaugurated new lines of transpor-
tafion and enlarged the capacity of those
already formed. Last year Japan.
China. Korea, Hong Kong and the Rus
sian possessions fronting the Pacific
Ocean did a business with the outside
Mor'u amounting 10 Sooo'opo,oVo; fuiiy
~ mn ~. VI tlIs was IMPORTS Du.ins
s 30 9e. oo ssis eouplry oought from them
~, "oitn VI Eoous. anu lil'll oniy
So'u ~ tNeih u nttie over S'o'voo'ooV'
Peaceful Conquest of China.
THE Fmnire Of China will .oon ho
opened In all parts to the commerce of
the world. and it becomes q question of
the share this country may secure in
the face of existing competition. The
purpose of establishing Oriental trade is
primarily to secure market for the
manufactured commodities of the east
ern States and the agricultural products