Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-10-31

Great Falls, Montana, Oct 31.-The /
wage earners of the county and those |
who would ameliorate the hard CON
ditions of the laboring man and see
him established in comfort in a home |
of his own will find some interest and
profit in the campaign and lecture
tour which is being made throughout
the west by George H. Maxwell, execu-
tive chairman of the National Irriga-
ton Association. Mr.. Maxwell has
spoken at the principal cities in
Montana and his programme takes him
also through Washington, Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, North
Dakota beside large eastern centers.
The lamp of hope which he held out
to the west and the country at large,
in a speech at Great Falls was that
the idea should be fostered that any
strong man can from one acre Of good
ground get a good living for himself
and his family.
Get an acre and live on it," he said.
Get an acre and live on it! l wish
l could burn that thought into the
heart of every workingman in Ameri-
ca, In the west l would say, get an
irrigated acre." Mr.. Maxwell declared
that if every man who now works
eight hours day in a factory or a
smelter could work four hours day
in the factory and four hours a day on
his acre of irrigated land, he would
double his income and he would insure
himself, his wife and his children
against want when the days wage
should stop.
Change Our Educational System.
But we must have a different sys
tenn of national education from the
present one" he said, (which trains
our manual training and domestic
science taught in some of our schools
That is getting back to the true sys
tenn of education where, instead of the
alone while the boys go to the cite:
with the idea of becoming millonaires
but to end as counter jumpers an<
| clerks, the making and keeping of
home is taught
Zone more thing should be coupled
| to the school system. Every chill
should be made gardener and
horticulturisf. The winter term shoul;
be devoted half to books and half OF
the benches, and summer tern
should be devoted to agriculture. TIL,
boys would learn to build home an
the girls to care for them as wives ant
mothers.
Better Than Prohibition Laws.
1.-THE way to close the saloons is II
teach the girls to cook. Many mai
has gone wrong because a woman cal
not cook. The summer school shout
be at the edge of the city where chill
dren could attend it from the Kinder
garen to the high school. They coul'
be taught to raise everything on dv'
acres that goes, to make a home. W.
are gradually getting away from tn
heresy that money is all in this lif'
and that man must sraise something
sell it and buv something back agail
before he gets what he wants: Coz
intended us to make living directl,
from the land.
"The evil of our life is not that tn
rich are getting richer or the poor ar
getting poorer, but it is the lack o
cultivation of the soil. No man Cal
Cypress a sturdy race of farmers tina
own and till the land.
Resources Of the Treasure State.
There are great resources in Mon
tana, but if the people want to develop
them on sound and enduring lines
they must be developed in such wa!
that the mass of the people will b.
rooted to the soil. Her mines ar
wondrous in their productiveness, bu
her greatest wealth lies in her ricl
soil.
"You have great water power her
at Great Falls, the greatest wealtl
lies in her rich soil.
''You have great water power her
at Great Falls, the greatest, I believe
of any state in the uniop, and you ma
| produce here q second Chicago, wit
all its sQnalor, its slums, its immoral
Il y, It's crimes, its starvation when tn
1 days wage stops. But you do no
want that You want to lay here
foundation, broad and deep, for an en-