The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-27

su why therefore IL stands IN the
way OF the nations progress. Let
them know why we all have reason
to thank God that we have in the
Whlte House a president who does
not let politics silence his tongue on
that subject or swerve him from his
determination to stop this waste of
the nations funds.
Write up short story of what Re-
clamation has done and can do in re-
l1eving the situation by opening I'D to
us millions of acres of land which can
and will add greatly to our food and
meat supply; tell them what has al
ready been accomplished, for instance
in Florida, and the progress that is
still being made by reclamation work,
to the great benefit of the people of
that state
Explain in a simple manner that
hand in hand with the profitable de-
velopment of our natural resources
must go the development of our
great waterways and railroads-that
there can be no general prosperity
without railroad prosperity; that our
railroads and waterways are the con-
Meeting links which make our re-
sources available, and that the practi-
cal value of our natural resources de-
pends lrgely upon the efficiency of
our transportation service.
II farmer had a useful team of
horses and a good wagon which he
used to send his produce to market
and haul back his supplies from town,
and If he found the man whom he
had entrusted with driving it had
mlsused his position-had taken the
team and hired it out to others for
his own prolific would promptly
dismiss the driver and look around
for one who could get trusted to use
the team in the interests of the own.
er-he certainly would not listen to
any man who would advise him 10
get even by cutting down the feed of
the horses and breaking Up the wag-
on. On the contrary, he would take
greater precautions to properly care
for the team because he needs 1t in
his business. So we the people of
the United States need the waterways
and railroads in our business-need
to develop and expand them, more
than it will be possible for us to do
under most favorable conditions, and
while we should resent most forceful-
lv any misuse of the railroads by
those entrusted with their manage
ment-and should take vigorous steps
portunities to misuse these great fac
tors in our daiiv life-we should take
exceeding great care to ADOPT way
that will not lessen their efficiency.
We certainly are short-sighted if we
do anything to hurt the team in our
efforts to get even with the driver.
We are more and more coming to see
that we have been too often misled
into abusing the wagon-that 1t is our
wagon and we need 1t in our business.
Point out to them the lessons which
we should get from cases of individ-
nal effort along the lines Of modern
methods in farming how. for in
stance, Mr. Claude Hollingsworth-a
farmer near Colfax, Washington
raised this year forty-fve bushels of
wheat to the acre, averaging sixty
two pounds to the bushel. and Of
barley seventy-two and one-half bush
els to the acre-when his neighbors,
with the same conditions of soil,
climate and rainfall, averaged only
half as much: Or in South Carolina,
where Mr. E. Mel. Williamson, a
planter has by the proper application
of fertilizers, modern methods, and
little additional expense increased his
production Of corn from fifteen bush
els per acre to an average of nearly
sixty bushels: and of cotton from less
than one-half q bale to an average of
a bale per acre.
Such examples are most convincing.
and will do much to arouse more gen.
eral interest in the practical value of
conservation
You. of course. recognize that this
suggestion is based upon entire con-
the daily pressI have no doubt about
that whatever The newspapers are
not only most potent factors in spread
ing enlightenment. but thew can al
wavs be depended on to take enthus-
iastic hold Of anv movement that is
honestly and disinterestedly for the
general good
The conservation Of tie national
health deserves to be emphasized
even when we have under consider
alton this general subject from pure
~ business STANDPOINT When we
consider that tuberculosis alone costs T
the people of the state of New York
over two hundred million dollars per
year, and that il is a nreventabIe dis
ease. and that that two hundred mil
lion annual expense can he practically /
all saved: that it might be used as
canital to give To millions of people
profitable and wholesome occupation
the relation of the health movement
to the business interests of the coun-
try Is selfevident.
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