The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-09-29
Danger in Congested Cities.

plies and resources as no one govern
ment in the world ever had before.
Danger in ConGested Cities.
1t is not without serious meaning that
SO many of our people are massng in
cities. that in cities rents are going high
er. and hence people are living i'll 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 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 dc. not with supine
men who have been trained to submits
sive obedence-a people who stand ready
to shut their eyes, open their mouths and
take whatever is given and be contented
Herewith. Adversely will bring commo-
ton in our cities as cold engenders
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 iii every nation. That remedy APP
| pears to be. to put the balance of our
| population back on the land and keep it
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 earner's employment. the
man who gathers his wife and children
around his own hearthstone and gets his
living by his own labor from his own
land. is the anchorage Of this country. 1t
hehooves our statesmen to rise to the
occasion and Undue the American people
with patriotic determination to turn
/ the balance of our population back to
the land and plant it there with homes
that no social upheaval can ever disturb.
This will safeguard this nation for all
years to come.
All Can Have Homes.
The nation has land for every man
who will make his home upon it in good
faith-whc will break the sod. plant
! crops build a house and settle down to
support his family from the soil, but the
nation has no land-at least, it ought to
have none-for the man who merely
seeks to forestall the actual settler and
sell out to him at a profit, or become A
landlord, collecting income from his ten
ant.
Land monopoly robs men of a large
portion of the products Of their labor, 1t
nulllhes the spirit of constitutional guar
alitees which seeks to give assurance of
pohtical freedom. No man is free in
the true sense of the term who is be-
holden to another for the means of his
existence and land monopoly makes
rebels instead of patriots. In the case of
ireland 1t drove more than half the popu-
latlon away from its native soil 1t filled
their hearts with bitterness and even
sent some of her children into the ranks
or England's enemies in the hour of her
great trouble.
Will Help the East.
The subjugation and settlement of the
great empire of public lands means that
every factory wheel in the United States
must whrl faster, that every banking
house must handle more money. and that
every railroad must transport more pas
sengers and freight. This. in turn, means
large and buster population in every
eastern and southern town, and that of
course will quicken and enlarge the de-
mand for all the products of the soil in
the older sections of the country. In the
meantime that which is grown from the
SOIL. to be conquered by irrigation in the
West. will 90 almost exclusively to the
feeding of new home markets to be erect
ed within the arid region itself and 70
the satisfying of unlimited demands in
the Orient and in the frozen north.
Limit1ess Oriental Trade.
Visible increase in American tonnage
in trade between the Asiatic East and
the Pacific coast is beyond the concep-
ton of the ordinary citizen. This trans
portatlon issue concerns the merchant
the manufacturer and the mechanic of
the Atlantic States, the Middle States
and the far West as we'll as the Pacific
coast These merchants manufacturers
and mechanics have the same interest in
the Asiatic trade that they have in the
irrigation development of our arid and
semi-arid 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 eff
cheney of trans-Paciic transportations.
the greater our trade with Asia.
In way the merchants, manufactur.
ers and mechanics east of the Rocky
mountains have more at stake than have
the Pacific coast States. Increased trade
with Asia. especially an increased de-
mand for American food stuffs. means in.
creased agricultural, commercial and in
dustrial activity on the Pacific coast. a
larger population on the Pacific and
finally. the most important of all. a
larger home market for what the people
OF the Pacific coast call the American
East.
Improved Transportation.
The transportation issue is settling
itself. The trans-continental railwa v
companies face globe crclng competi-
ton that forces them to raise the efH.
cheney of their systems, west of Chi
cago. The steam lines of the Pacific
ocean are meeting the transportation de.
mands, thus the American commerce
with the Asiatic East is insured BY that