Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-22

| there are interests opposed to this
| laudable purpose, | believe they VIII
| have to yield to the general goou.
| While / should very much dislike 10
| see any worthy industries Crippled YET
! II they are being conducted IN such
way as to endanger the wealth. or inc
safety OF future generations, thlnh 1t
is the right and the duty OF the gov
eminent to interfere. AS 10 tne pIopel
extent and means of interference, there
may be differences of opinion among
the interests concerned. 1t Is with this
view that President Roosevelt mas m
vited the governors to go TO Wasn'ng-
ton In the spring and consult WIN
him and the heads of departments But
II is decidedly impolitic, In my opinion,
for these various conventions 10 pass
drastic resolutions OF disagreement
with the general policy of the govern
ment. or censure the officers entrusted
with it's enforcement.
BOUQUETS FOR FARMERS.
The country has no greater benefac-
tor than the man who makes the ianu
productive. Those who own ana I'LL
tho soil form the best element Of any
nations citizenship. do not mean the
large landed proprietors nor the serfs
that till these mems lands; but those
who own the farms and gardens,
whether large or small. and who take
tibet ruEtenance from the earth. AS
a rule there are no better citlzets. ihey
are the mainstay of the nation; they
support the merchant, the manufac-
turer the professional man; they reed
49, world. They are intelligent. Ihelr
children are among our leadlng stu
dents. There has been change since
the great French artist produced MS
immortal painting, the fame or which
Markham's equally immortal poem,
"The Man with the Hoe" The farm
ers of today and especially of this
country are not the woebegone. nope
less, down-trodden, spiritless clods the
Frenchman painted, but Intelligent
hopeful, progressive. and use1ui citl-
zer,s Their combination of Drawn
and brain is irresistible and neither
envious man nor the destructive forces
of nature can stand in the way of their
great achievements.
The nation does not need to rear us
farmers. Who ever heard or the pros
porous American farmer talking an
archy? He may get out among MS
neighbors once In while and say that
this or that condition should be better
ed. OF that socialism or some other
ism" will cure certain ills. But IL
doesn't last long. He is nearly al
WAYS too busy for that sort of thing;
too much occupied with his multiplied
duties. And as the golden grain rails
before his reaper and he gamers and
markets II and the price gets 1insling
into his pocket, he forgets all about
his little troubles and decides that
things are about right after all For
anarchy does not thrive on well-hlled
pockets and well-occupied time. The
anarchist is usually idle or needy or
both.
UNDER OBLIGATIONS.
The more men and women there are
in a community who own their homes,
TIL their own land, raise their own
stock. and train their own children,
the stronger and better will that COM
be. We are therefore under
lasting obligation to those who show us
how to produce good harvests on arid
land and TO those who legislate to
make the settling of such land posi-
BILE. AS a result of the work of this /
congress- supplemented by the wise
acts we hope the national congress Will
pass for our benefit. we expect to see
homes made on arid wastes for tenn
ing millions.
OBJECT LESSON.
do not know Just what progress dry
Ia making In the states and
territories. | suppose you will be Of
fitially informed as to that. ! was
impressed with its posslibil-
ties when l stood last summer on a
large plain In central Utah, on which
within the memory of man nothi1s
had been raised but sagebrush and
and saw the first combined
harvester and thresher imported into
the intermountain country cut and
thresh splendid crop of dry land
wheat. And | thought of the hundreds
Of thousands OF acres of Just such land
that | had seen scorched and blister
ed by the sun, yet bearing as evidence
OF fertility gray shrubs as large as
trees. And / am sure that with proper
methods and thorugh training almost
dependent families can
soon be made prosperous on this land,
and the state and the nation be Inn
enriched. think that time is
NJ hand for Utah and for all the west.
TWO GREAT AGENCIES.
From the standpoint of one who has
not made a technial study OF the sub
ect, can see two great agencies by
which extended success is to be achieved
One Is the scientific application OF pre-
serving moisture; the other the deyel-
lpment OF plants adapted to arid soils
These problems are being successfully |
solved by experiment stations and the |
nen connected herewith. and other sci |
,ntists. IL may be of interest to the |
10 know that the Utah legis- |
ature In It's recent session, passed |
measures providing for experiments In !
procuring water on dry farms for Gull |
nary purposes, and In ascertainlng the |
pest methods of preserving moisture.
seed, enrichlng soils. etc. we
ire on The threshold of this great work I
md no man can even imagine In his |
leart the riches we shall find on enter |
ng the door.
People We're once afraid OF men in
easing so rapidly that the earth could |
rot sustain them. There appears 10 be
no danger of this as long as men are |
'ound who by the Improvement OF one
llant, the potato, can increase the value |
II It's annual yield IN this country alone |
ly millions OF dollars; who can produce |
God for animals and for man on bar |
zen desertsi who can syoivo plants |
hat VIII flourish In the most sterile |
'nd forbidding wastes. Such work ia |
(COntlnued nm naRe t,vo