The state herald., 1904-09-30
President Rcosevet's National Irrigation Act to
Be Wonder Worker.
MILLIONS OF CHEERFUL, HAPPY HOMES
Avenue of Relief to Congested Cities-HeaIth,
Prosperity and Patriotism Fostered by
Contact with So-RepubIican
Party Leads the Way.

plies and resources as no one govern
ment in the world ever had before.
Danger in Congcsted Cities.
1t is not without serious meaning that
SO many of our people are massing in
| cities, that in cities rents are going high
er, and hence people are living in fewer
rooms or smaller ones, and that the at
tendant and consequent evils, moral, ply
steal, industrial, intellectual and national,
are seen on every hand. We are to-day
| passing through a period of prosperity in
the United States without parallel in
| the worlds history. Judging from the
| history of all nations, this may not con-
tinue indefinitely. Our leaders must know
that they have to do, not with supine
men who have been trained TO submis-
siye obedience people who stand ready
to shut their eyes. open their mouths and
take whatever is given and be contcnted
Herewith. Adversely will bring cOmmo-
tion in our cities as cold cngenders
hail"
| Remedy in Irrigated Farms.
In contemplating the dangers of the
| future that may come to this republic,
the wise citizen should reach out and
seize whatever remedy may be within
his reach and apply it so that all the
| years to come may be free from fear and
| disturbing forces such as are always at
work in every nation. That remedy ap-
| pears TO Ice. to put the balance OF our
| population back on the land and keep 1t
| there. There seems to be no other rem
/ edy. The man who has his home upon
mother earth. the man who draws his
living straight from natures granary, the
man who is free from all the uncertain
ties of a wage oarncr's employment. the
/ man who gathers his wife and children
around his own hearthstOuc and gets his
| living by his own labor from his own
/ land, is the anchorage of this country. II
| LchOOvcs our statesmen to rise to the
occasion and imbuc the American people
with n patriotic determination 10 turn
| the balance OF our population back to
the land and plant il there with homes
thar no social uphc1vIl can ever disturb.
This will safeguard this nation for all
years to come
All Cnu Have Homes.
The nation has land for every man
who will make his home upon it in good
faitlI-wlo will break the sod. plant
crops, build house and settle down to
support his family from the soil. but the
nation has no land-at least. ii ought to
have uonc--for the man who merely
seeks 10 forcstall the actual settler and
sell out To him nt profit, or become a
landlord, collecting income from his ten
ant.
Land monopoly robs men Of large
portion OF the products OF their labor. II
utilities the spirit of constitutional guar
antees which seeks tn give assurance Of
political freedom. No man is free IN
the trnc sense Of the term who is he.
hnldcn TO another for the means Of his
existence, aud land monopoly makes
rebels instead Of patriots. In the ease o:
ireland ii drove more than half the popu-
lation away from its native soil. II filled
their hearts with bitterness and even
sent some Of her children into the ranks
Of EnGlnnd'S enemies in the hour OF her
great trouble.
VIII Help the East.
The Snbiugltion and settlement Of the
great empire OF public lands means that
every factory wheel in the United States
must whirl faster, that every banking
house must handle more money, and that
every railroad must transport more pas.
sengers and freight This, In turn. mean.
large and buster population In every
castern and southern town. and that oI
course will quicken aud enlarge the de
nnnl for all the pro,lnrt, of the soil in
the older sections 81 the country. In the
meantime that which j. grown from the
snil, Ia be conquered by irrigation In the
West, will 90 almost exclusively TO the
| feeding M uaUs hntu.4 t,,s. A.. -.
cd within the arid region itself and 10
the satisfying Of unlimited demands In
the Orient AMI In the frozen north.
| LimItics. Oriental Trade.
Visible increase Ia American tonnage
\ In trade between the Asintic East aud
4 the PnriGe coast il beyond the cancep.
iion ~ the ordinary citizen. This trans.
p0rtntiUn issue concerns the merchant.
the manufacturer aud the mechanic NJ
| the AtHntic States, the Middle Stntrs
aud the far West ns well as the Pacific
coast, These merchants, manufacturers
/ and mechanics have the same interest Ia
| The Asiatlr trade that they have In The
| irrigation development ~ our arid and
/ scmi.nrld land, The larger that trade.
| the greater the demand for the Industrial
| products of the vast region east Of the
Rocky mountains, the greater the Ell.
cheney of trms'Pacihc trnnsportntions,
the greater our trade with Asia.
In way the merchants, mnnnfnciur.
crs aud mechanics east Of the Rocky
mountains have more ut stake than have
the Pacific coast States Increased trade
with Asia, especially nu Increased dc.
mlnd for American food s,uifs, means In.
creased agricultural, commercial and In.
duz,rInl activity un the Pacific coast, a
las ger population on the Pacific, and
finally. the most imhortnm ~ nll, a
larger home market for what the people
~ the Pacific coast vail the american
East,
Improved Transportation.
4 The transportation issnc Il settling
itself. The trhns.cpntinrntal railway
companies face globe circling romprtl,
tipn that forces them 10 raise tho rii.
CHENEY of their systems. west Of chi,
cago. The steam lines of the Pacific
ucgau nrr meeting the transportation de-
mahds. thus the American r0mmcrr,
! With the Aslhtic East is Insured by thnt
lntad aud Fgtnntl.u .nnltn th, R,innttat,