La Junta tribune., 1904-10-01

plies and resources as no one govern
ment in the world ever had before.
Danger In Conzested cisiea
II is not without serious meaning that
50 many OF our people are mas<sng 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
t.ndant 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-
sive obedience-a people who stand >eady
| To shut their eyes, open their mouths and
take whatever is given and be conteDted
| Herewith. Adversely will bring comms-
| ton in our cities as cold engenders
hail"
Remedy In Irrigated Ysrma
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 IL 80 that all the
years TO come may be free from fear and
disturbing forces such ns are always at
work in every nation. That remedy ap-
pears TO be. TO put the balance OF our
population back on the land and keep IL
there. There seems to be no other rem
edy. The man who has his home upon
| mother earth. tho man who draws his
living straight from natures granary. the
man who is free from all the uncertain
. II
man who gathers his wife and children
around his own hcarthstone and gets his
living by his own labor from his own
land, is the anchorare of this country. l,
behooves our Statesmen To rise to the
| occasion and imbue the American people
with patriotic determination to turn
| the balanc. OF our population back To-
the land and plant il there with homes
that no social uphcaval can ever disturb.
This will safeguard this nation for all
years to come.
All Can Have HomeA
The nation has land for every man
who will make his home upon II In good
faith-wbo will break the sod, plant
, crops. build n house and settle down to
support his family from the soil, but the
| nation has no land-at least, IL ought To
have none-for the man who merely
seeks 10 forestall the actual settler and
sell out to him nj profit. or become a
landlord, collecting income from his ten
ant.
Land monopoly robs men Of large
| portion OF the products OF their labor 4,
| nnllihes the spirit OF constitutional guar
nntecs which seeks TO give assurance of
| political freedom. No man IL free In
the true sense of the term who is be
holden to another for the means OF hi
| existence, and land monopoly makes
rebels instead of patriots. Ia the cas-. o.
Ireland IL drove more than half the popu-
| lation away from its native soil. IL hIle.i
their hearts with bitterness and even
sent some of her children into the rank.
OF Englands enemies in the bour of her
great trouble.
Will Help the East.
The suhjusation and settlement Of the
great empire OF public lands means that
every factory wheel in the United State.
must whirl faster. that every banking
house must handle more money. and thar
every railroad must transport more pas
sengers and freight. This. in turn, mean.
large and busier population In every
| eastern and southern town, and that OF
| course will quicken and enlarge the de
| mnnd for all the products Of the aail IN
the older sections of the country. In the
meantime that which IL grown from the
soil. to be conquered by irrigation in the
West. will go almost exclusively to thu
feeding Of new home markets to be erec,
ell within the arid region itself and tn
! the satisfying of unlimited demands in
the Orient and in the frozen north.
Limitie.. Oriental Trade.
Visible increase In American tonnage
in trade between the Asiatic Ess, and
the Pacific coast is beyond the eoncep-
tion Of the ordinary citizen This trans
portation issue concerns the merchant.
the manufacturer and the mechanic of
the Atlantic States. the Middle States
and the far West a. well "a the Pacific
coast. The~e merchants, manufacturers
aud mechanics have the same interest IL
the Asiatic trade that they have in the
Irrigation development of our arid and
semi-srii lsnd. The iarger that trade
the greater the demand for the industrial
product. Of the vast region east Of the
sscky mountains. the greater the Ell
cheney of trans-Pacihc trsn.porta tons.
the greater our trade with Asia
In a way the merchants. msnufactur.
ers and mechanics east of the Rocky
mounf,ins have more At stake than have
the Paeiic coast States Increased trade
with Asia, especially an increased de-
msni for American food stufs. means in
creased agricultural commercial and in
dustrisI sctivity on the Pscifc roast. .
larger population on the Pacific. and
finally. the most impcrtsnt Of all.
lsrser home market FOE whst the people
of the Fscisc coast call the American
East
Iovr-ved rsasspsrsssssA
The transportation issue - settling
itself The traas-ontineafsi rail~ay
companies face . xlshe eirctisg cDmy-si-
sios that fsrr~s tbem To esise ths en-
eieacy ss their ussens ves Of Chi
eaeo, The stan E.es sf tbs Pseisr
srsas sre oe>esae tie 9ss-psrtafios ~
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