The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-04-26

about the present conditions in the
government under which we live have
many reasons to rejoice that we are
part of a nation Of the most progress
sive and enterprising people in the
world today and that both financiers
and captains of industry who are en-
titled to much consideration and praise
for their progress and the men in pub
lie Office whom we elect to carry on
our government are both striving at
this time to place themselves in b line
with the progressive thought of the
nation instead of trying to tramplc
upon us with the iron heel of oppres-
sion.
1t is the statement of both Mr..
and Mrs. MCGOWAN that no place
they have seen can compare either in
beauty of scenery, in the number Of
business opportunities and excellence
of climate of Minnesota and especially
their native city Of Minneapolis.
Mr.. MCGOWAN has made numerous
business visits to the south and this is
his fifth trip to California and he de-
clares emphatically that the residents
of Minnesota who have not the oppor-
tunity to move to either of those con-
genial climates have nothing to regret
While the equable and mild climate Of
California and the warm and sunny
south appear to be exceedingly invit-
ing to the resident of Minnesota, es-
pecially when his thermometer is reg
istering around 20 degrees below zero,
when after spending his day breathing
the pure Minnesota ozone and he is
allowed to embrace the radiations from
he does not stop to think, however,
that his California rival is shivering in
his room inhaling the fumes of min
iature coal oil or gas stove. The at
mosphere, charged with the chill air
from the adjacent snow capped noun
tains on one side and the damp, foggy
mist of the ocean on the other, and
yet the thermometer is only register
ing temperature of 40 or so above
zero.
1t is true that the California resi-
dent could keep warm if his house
was as substantially built as his east
ern neighbor and if he warmed it with
good hard Minnesota wood or Penn
sylvania coal, but unfortunately the
average workman: could not earn
enough money in California to heat his
house comfortably in the winter time
with either wood or coal, SO iconse-
quently they SILVER the winter out as
best they can. 1t is true that in the
| modern hotels and expensive homes
they are now providing modern heat
ing apparatus but most of the resi-
| dents get along without such luxuries.
On the other hand, if you are en-
vions of the comforts of your brother
who resides in the sunny south, go
! and spend one year with him and en-
| perience a temperature ranging from
| 70 to 30 or 100 above constantly for
eight months in the year and if that
will not take all the vitality that has
been worked into you by your years
Of residence in Minnesota, then l am
poor judge. have made a study
of the question of climate in different
parts of the United States where I
have been and Ihave come to the con-
clusion that change from one eli
mate to another, if only for few
weeks, is beneficial to any person. the
same as change or rest from a per-
sons employment. The south is an
excellent place for a person from the
north to go to spend few weeks in
the winter time and California is a
pleasant place for q person to go to
live If he desires to give up an active
life and retire with sufficient income
to supply himself with the modern
conveniences of life for which he must
certainly pay far in excess of what
they would cost here. 1t Is a mistaken
idea i've have here in the frozen north
when we think that our opportunities
for earning money are not so good
and that the productiveness Of our soil
is not so great as the land of flowers
and perpetual sunshine. The farmer
of the middle states must remember
that here In the west he IL Invariably
assured Of at least one crop each year
and that the Divine Providence never
fails to supply him with sufficient
moisture to mature that crop, and
when it is harvested, thanks to the en-
terprising spirit of our population
there is always a market at a fail
price for the product of the soil, while
the farmer (rancher, as he is called in
the scmi-arid region) must depend or
an artificial supply of water furnished