The Delta independent., 1910-01-14
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w. " OCIhltlS. xHC HAL VI WOIndI
who goes out into the desert and re-
claims an acre of barren prairie or who
makes a row of sweet peas, big
pumpkin vine or patch of potatoes grow
where the bufflao grass or sage brush
held sway before, is more of a bene-
factor of his race than all the poets
and philosophers from Omar to bacon
or from Homer to the present da
This is neither classic nor scripture. but
it is true and a pretty fair counterfeit
for either.
Jean Moliere-N Nowadays there is no
disgrace in hypocrisy; it is fashion
able vice and all fashionable vices pass
for virtues. The character of man
of virtue is the best of all roles to play
in these times, and the profession of
hypocrisy has marvellous advantage. 1t
is an art the pretense of which is al
ways respected and although it be dis
covered no one dares to say anything
against it. All the other vices of man
kind are exposed to harsh criticism and
everybody feels free to attack them
loudly, but hypocrisy is privileged
vice which lays its finger on everyone's
lips and enjoys in peace its sovereign
impunity.
thing in nature as worn out farm or
exhausted soil. Farm lands may be so
mismanaged and abnsed as to become
temporarily Improbable, but the soil
is the one indestructible, immutable
asset that the nation possesses. 1t is
the one resource that cannot be ex-
hausted, that can never be used up.
Most soils deteriorate through neglect
and insufficient and Injudicious cultiva-
ton. This theory is borne out by the
history of the So called abandoned farms
in New England, many of which have
been turned into truck gardens by
italians and jews and have proved
profitable.
David F. Day Colorado's struggle
has been one of uphill pulls; and soft
soap, however colored and perfumed,
is poor lotion to one whose eyes are
trained toward the summit. He wants
grub and plenty of it. He wants the
encouragement that breathes life into
the wearied breast. DissensiOn is left
behind as he moves onward and up
ward There is just little too much
commercialism in this age of ours and
being trained up to it we look first for
that which will attract the eye and the
purse. Let US make up our minds that
Colorado is greater and stronger today
than at any time in her history and the
annual flood of figures will become as
drained well on the desert.
C. B. Pitts When the government
manages to loosen up little for west
ern internal improvement and builds
tunnel or canal, all the people applaud
and speak of the wisdom and generosity
of our present administration. They
forget that this reclamation business is
only loan, hard to squeeze out and
must be repaid in full. If the money
fooled away in building warships, dig
kIuk Out IltiC ooCo iidi ooA nih Ndhoic
and removing a mountain to make a
canal which is not at all necessary
could be loaned to the west for internal
development, in very few years this
rugged west would show the worked
out east more splendid agricultural
domain than it ever conceived.
DR.. v. T. Cooke-The general de-
velopment of agriculture has been very
slow in proportion to our opportunities
and we have not made the progress we
should. The agricultural conditionsof
the great west have not been
and are not yet understood by many
men of the east. 1t takes westerner
to understand the west. The early
settlers of the west have fought out
their own salvation, depending entirely
upon their own energy and brains and
very little help has been given them
from the outside. They have been told
how they are running their land and
themselves by their methods and some
remedies have been offered them in a
kind of lordly and perfunctory way
which does not and will not appeal to
the average western farmer.