New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-03

many is naturally much less fertile
than it is in the Mississippi valley Or
in the country about US, but they get
an average Of 27.6 bushels per acre on
land that does not wear out. It has
been cultivated since the time Of Taci-
tus, we know, and how much longer
we don't know; at least don't.
Now, if other people are doing it,
we can do it, That it is necessary for
us to do it goes without saying. We
are not going to sit down idly and see
our land perish for want of care.
Professor Schaller, one of the most
Intelligent biologists this country has
ever produced, says a hundred plow-
ings on ordinary rolling land will de-
stroy the vitality of the soil unless
something is done to preserve it.
We do not want to be in the posi-
ton of Mesopotamia or of Morocco.
Morocco was once covered with for
ests and was a rich land. 1t sustained
a dense population, and had large
cities, but a better illustration is
France. After Napoleon was safely
cornered in st. Helena, Great Britain,
about 1919 or 1920, started on a period
of great expansion, colonization,
planting her colonies everywhere, with
her ships on every sea. The iron and
0nQ1 fop, hot II o<,nr,
were very productive, and she deve-
Hoped an enormous iron trade; she led
the world. Iron began to be used in
ships.
"The Civil War came and drove
our merchant marine off the high seas
and Great Britain enjoyed practically
the ocean carrying of the world. In
1879, about sixty years after she had
started on this era of expansion, the
Oldest and largest English banking
house failed. Who came to the rescue?
France. How much money do YOU
want? Let them have It, France
had no mines. France had no forests,
had little foreign commerce, but she
had an industrious, frugal lot of
farmers on the land, people who lived
within their means and saved some
thing, and today France is the banker
nation of the world. No nation can
go to war if the French bankers say
they will not furnish the money.
"NOw within short time, many Of
you remember, there was a meeting
at Algeclras where the other nations
offered their good offices peaceabiy to
settle some dispute between France
and Germany in regard to Morocco,
but the kaiser would not be satisfied
or pacifed; he did not want advice or
help, and it looked as if they were not
going to be able to settle the trouble
at all, but one morning the represen-
tatives of France and Germany came
in and said they had amicably settled
all disputes between themselves.
''Let US see what was the moving
power. I happen to know. The Ger
man emperor was ambitious to push
the German manufactures. to push
German commerce in every direction,
to furnish plenty of occupation for
the German workmen, and to benefit
the German nation, and in doing that
had urged the banks to advance
money freely to the manufacturers
and to the merchants who were engag-
in extending the commerce of Germany.
"The French bankers asked them if
they were ready to pay their loans,
and ifthey had been called upon to
pay their loans the German banks,
half of them, would have failed: they
had not the money. And the French
bankers, with the money saved by the
frugal French farmer, couldsay, "No,
we will have peace and they had
peace, and that is the way it was set
tied so quietly at Algeciras.''
Senator Johnson of Nicollet county
introduced bill Monday which gives
the state drainage commission power
to deepen or widen any ditch or creek
in the state. The bill Drovides that