The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-30
new ERA FOR GREAT WEST
President Rooseve|t's National irrigation Act to
Be a Wonder Worker.
MILLIONS OF CHEERFUL, HAPPY HOMES
Avenue Of Relief to Cangestcd Cities-HeaIth,
Prosperity and Patriotisn Fostered by
Contact with SoiI-RepabIican
Party Leads the Way.t/
plies ard re- Jirrcs NJ no ono govern
ment Ia the Eorli ever had before.
Dane sf in Congrsted cities.

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IL Is u ywitIput serious meaning that
So man 1f our propl" are massing la
cities. : Iht in cities rents are going high.
or. IN Nrncc people are living in Tower
room yor smaller ones. and that the ut.
ten At aud consequent evils, moral, ply.
sr u Industrial, intellectual and national.
[r fsccn oa every hand. We are to-day
4 fssing through Il period or prosperity ~
yhe United States without parallel in
Ithe worlds history. Judging from the
history of all nations. this may not con
tinuc indefinitely. oar lenders must know
that they have to do. not with Slpinc
men who have been trained to Submis-
siy" obrliclcc-a people who stand ready
10 shut their eyes. open their moutliS and
take whntcvcr is given aud he cOntenicd
herewith. Adversely will bring "oumo.
ton III our cities as cold cngcnders
hail.
Remedy I'm irrigated Farms.
In contemplating the dangers ~ the
future that may come to this republic.
the wise citizen should reach out aud
seize whatever remedy may he within
his reach and apply it So that all the
years to come may he free from fear aud
disturbing forces such as are always at
work in every nation. That remedy APP
pears to he. to put the balance of our
population back ON the land and keep it
there. There scents to he no other rem
edy. The man who has his home upon
mother earth. the man who draws his
living straight fro.: natures granary. the
man who IL free from all the uncertain.
ties or u wage earner's employment. the
man who gathers his wife aud children
around his own he0rthstone aud gets his
living 10y his wi labor from his own
land. Is the anchorage OF this country. II
behooves our statesmen to rise to the
occasion aud Undue the American people
with n patriotic determination to turn
the balance Of our population back tn
the land and plant il there with homes
that no social upIcaval can ever disturb.
This will safeguard this nation for all
years to come.
All Con Have Homes.
The nation has land for every man |
who will make his home upon it in good |
faith-who will break the sod, plant
crops. build u house and settle down to |
support his family from the soil, but the
nation has no lnnd-at least. il ought TO
have nonc-for the man who merely
seeks To foreStall the actual settler aud
sell out To- him ut II profit. .r become a
landlord, collecting income from his ten.
ant.
Land monopoly rnts men OF n largo
portion Of the products Of their labor. IL |
utilities the spirit Of constitutional guar. |
diItcrs which seeks Ia give assurance of |
political 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- |
latioh away from its native soil. II filed |
thelr hearts with bitterness and even
sent some of her children into the ranks |
OF EilSland'S enemies in the hour of her |
great trouble.
Viii Heip the East.
The Suhjugatiou 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. AMI that
every railroad must transport more pas
senccr, aud freight. This. in turn. means
II large and buster population in every
eastern and southern town.. aud thar of |
course will quicken and enlarge the do.
mand for all the products Of the soil in
W wv ll IA III |
meantime that which is grown from In,
soil. to he conquered by irrigation in the
West. will 60 almost exclusively To the
tccdlng of new home markets To be erect.
Ell within the arid region itself and Ia
the satisfying Of unlimited demands in
the Orient aud in the frozen north.
Limiticss Oriental Trade.
Visible increase in American tonnage |
IN trade between the .\siatic East and
the faclhc coast is beyond the conccp.
ton of the ordinary citizen, This trans.
portation issue concerns the merchant, |
the manufactures aud the mechanic OF |
the Atlantic States, the Middle States |
aud the far West as well aS the Pacific |
coast, These merchants, manufacturers
and mechanics have the same interest in |
the A>iatic trade that they have in the
irrigation development of our arid and
semi'nrid land. The larger that trade. |
the greater the demand for the Industrial |
products "f the vast region east of the
Rocky mountains. the greater the eth.
cheney OF trans Pacific transportations. !
the greater our trade with Asia.
In Il way the merchants, manufactur.
ers aud 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 Stufrs, means in.
creased agricultural, commercial and in.
dustrial activity on the Pacific coast. ,
larger population On the Pacific. ana
finally, the most important of all. n
larger home market for what the people
Of the Pacific coast call the American |
East.
Improved Transportation.
The transportation issue j. settling |
itself. The trsus-contincntal railway
companies face a globe %circling competi-
ton that forces them 70 raise the enI.
cheney Of their systems, west OF Chi.
cago. The steam line. OF the Pacific
ocean are meeting the transportation de.
maudS, thus the American commerce
with the Asiatic East is insured by that