Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-04-15

as q principle of action. All material
success can be divided into two classes
(a) economical, (b) political. Note the
great centres OF national success.
Those centres are: Jerusalem, Athens.
Rome, Florence, Paris and London. All
human progress in the Old Would has
historically started from these centres.
After the Tudors, England, aided by
her geographical situation, built up by
colonization and conquest a vast en-
pire based on ~sea-power. In modern
times she has built it up on national
and humane government. Her sea-
power, and her industrial supremacy
are being exposed to serious challeng-
ing.
America has of all modern nations the
greatest chance of success, economic or
material. The union is neighborless.
No enemy threatens in the north, none
in the east or west, and there is no
menace in the south. Two types have
developed in America-the politician
and the business man.
The politicians and business men tell
rs Of our wonderful prosperity, and of
our immense national wealth. America
has the largest amount of gold and the
smallest circulation of this metal; the
richest mines and manufactures, pri-
vate palaces, and libraries. Why con-
tinue the enumeration2
The big business men are in the big
business of making millions out of the
governments mistakes and inadequa-
cies. Both houses of congress are dom
mated by the unreasonable riches of
the Midas m%il!ionaries.
Morgan, Rockefeller, Hartman. Rog-
ers and all the rest Of the m~illionaires
made their billions out of the forests, oil
wells, coal mines, iron mines, banking,
insurance, telegraph, and express bust
ness. Surely but swiftly our national
are being wasted.
Take the forests first. Tyre and
Sidon 1000 B. G. had $500 square miles
of the cedars of Lebanon. Some of you
AVE heard how Hiram of Tyre con-
tracted with Solomon, Il never knew his
last name) to build the Temple at Jeru-
salem. The work was accomplished
but of that splendid forest country Tyre
is today a barren rock m which the
fisherman dries his net. Why this cry
"of forest conservation? Do you
read history or is the question of the
baseball pennant more important?
Take the coal. That prophet Carne-
gle says we have used two billion tons of
coal. How does he know itR He says
we waste more than we use. We can't
plant coal. In 100 years he prophecies
that the coal in America will be ex-
hausted, and says perhaps in so years.
Think of the increasing coal bills.
Cheer up, you'll die soon.
Think of the iron. In Missouri some
years ago the Iron Mountain R. r. paid
handsome dividends. Those mountains
of iron were exhausted 40 years ago.
Iron does not grow. In 90 years Amer
lea will be buying her iron from
Sweden.
Then the gas, not counting men like
Lawson and Hearst, there is IL waste of
1000 million feet a day. We dig it, or
manufacture it of materials we can't
grow again.
Next the oil so necessary for the politi-
col toboggan. For every barrel pumped
by Rockefeller, gas is wasted equal to
10 barrels.
You say ''the land is left" Your
share is one acre. The men of Eu-
rope own the land. Beside the Missis-
sippi carries away one quarter of a mil,
lion dollars worth of soil every year
q slice as large as the Panama canal
when completed.
1t takes 300 years to make a pine tree,
It takes longer than that to make one
foot of soil. 1t took 5000 years OF
hard geologic work to make four feet
. of soil-almost as long as it takes to re,
wise the tarif-and yet one ignorant
farmer in ten years can waste -four feet
of soil.
Finally think Of the water, 30 useful
in watered stocks. Why 80 few capalsI
Why have we 30 millian horse power
running away
What is the moralR This national
waste must be checked, by the awak.
oned intelligence, patriotism, and con
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