The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-10-28
TRANSMISSION OF POWER TO FACTORIES
RooseveIt's National irrigation Act to Create a
NEW Heaven and a New Earth for
American Freeholders- Half
Has Not Been Told.

jected, it would be idle to speculate on
fo~reshadcwed results. But the work is
already in its initial stages. 1t content
plates an expenditure of at least $40
100000 ultlmately--an enormous sum
Of mOney-but by a wise provision Of law
1t will come, not from taxing the people,
but from sales OF lands still u part OF
the public domain. 1t will be understood
that the total expense OF each irrigation
system constructed by the government
will be refunded to Uncle Sam by those
who actually occupy the irrigated lands.
Meanwhile, as the years go by, the gen
eral fund for retaining arid lands will
increase rapidly from the sale of public
lands throughout the thirteen States and
three Territories affected by the Ma
tional net. So it will be that the fund
will grow larger as il by geometrical
progression, after the tenth year. when
the first moneys expended by the govern
ment shall have been returned to it, by
the farmers, who own and occupy the
land under bitches built BY the govern.
mont.
Speaker Reeds Vision.
Hon. Thomas b Reed. in a speech at
Pittsburg in 1894. said: mighty as has
VCCA VuI past, OuI IGSOuTCcS nave JUST
been touched upon. and there is wealth
beyond the Mississippi which in the not
Tar distant future will astonish even the
dwellers On the shores of Lake Mich.
gan. From the time my eyes first rested
on the great uncultivated plains which lie
between the Mississippi and the Pacific
Ocean, my awakening dreams have been
filed with visions of the incaiculable
wealth which the touch Of living water
Will bring to life from those voiceless
deserts.
sThere wealth only can produce
wealth., and man. singly and alone. might
q we'll try to subdue the Himalayas as
70 cope with these wastes. but the hand
Of united and associated man il already
reaching forth to grasp the great results.
The same power which wastes millions
on the Mississippi can be utilized to make
the deserts blossom with the homes OF
men for whom, aud for all of US. the now
blfghted soil will bring forth the fruits
q the Garden Of Eden"
Lord Macaulay's Predictions.
Lord Macaulay. writing to an Amer
lean friend, once said: "Your fate l be-
lfeve to be certain, though it is deferred
BY physical cause. As long as you have
. boundless extent Of fertile and unoc-
Cupied land, your laboring population
Will be far more at ease than the labor
Ing population OF the Old World. But
the time will come when New England
will be - thickly populated as the Old
World. Wages will be as low, and will
nuctuate as much with you as with us.
You will have your Birminghams and
Manchesters, and in these B~iSminghams
and Manchesters hundreds OF thousands
Of artisans will assuredly be some time
ont Of work, then your institutions will
fairly be brought to the test"
When Lord Macaulay wrote the above
dtreful pr0phesy he did not know OF
the b0undless West. anu the great posi-
haties that are to come to it's popula-
ton through irrigation. He did not know
fhat ! Roosevelt would appear on the
ecene at the proper time and cause the
Hfe-gtvfng water to be applied to the
parChed plains and thus produce one OF
The greatest transformations OF any age
Or any time.
In these columns. on former occasions,
II 6aa been shown that the irrigated West
WIN not only be the garden spot. OF the
world, Int that it will afford the surplus
frult and vegetable produce. coupled viii,
e1eoa1s and other staple articles Of COM
meFco, which, exported to foreign mar
keks. are destined 20 establish Americas
Norld commercial prestige.
Unaoasared Elsctrical Enerxy.
I6O contemplation Of such marvellous
eeoulto would be incomplete without Civ
~ due consideration to the generation
3ok electrical energy and its long-distant
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