Show H r 0 i f ti i GREAT AND WEST I r Irrigation Will Change Deserts to Gardens and M rM Provide Lands for Millions of Homes ROOSEVELT'S STRONG FRIENDLY Y HAND HARD HANDA A Policy that Increases the Sum of Human Happiness and Enlarges and Strengthens Strength Strength- ens the Republic Q d It When President Roosevelt said Mid I Ih h BELONG WEST OF TIlE THE MISSOURI HI RIVER VER he spoke from his heart It WM wu not that he be loved the east less but the west more if 4 1 He lie felt th that t in a certain way the country at large did not properly appreciate I date this c crude crud big brother whose accomplish wonderful development and accomplish accomplish- menu ments are destined to bring the greatest fame tame and riches to the family the family the Na Na- tC a. a tion He got acquainted with this big biga a brother and found out that he was worth g winning and saving sIlTing He lIe started out at atnee nce nee upon his hii patriotic and philanthropic mission Ur lir Roosevelt firmly believes there is nothing too rood good od for the west He has put that section next to its immeasurable able future by the National Irrigation Act which it Is universally admitted could coald not have become a n law Jaw without Yes kli urgent personal influence In the House Hoase any more than without his si sig- sig nature as President Then there is his Open Door policy In China and the Panama Canal Cana assured as a permanent highway to the worlds world's commerce These measures are vitally associated with the ther r west rest att Know Knows and Loves Lore the We West at i No other President has ever spoken at t such uch length or eo 60 e explicitly on the subject sub sub- het of ot irrigation It is equally true that no ao other President ever had so wide an rW acquaintance with the subject as Mr 3 Roosevelt possesses lIe He is as it were an en adopted adapted child of ot the west vest and knows Its Ks wants and s sympathizes with them The proposed reservoirs in connection with ith the reclamation service will husband husband husband hus hus- band for the great empire beyond the Mississippi the waters necessary to add the desert reaches there to habitations and productivity This will insure the enduring qualities of his fame His knowledge kno of ot the west shines through all aU his bis utterances He holds bolds that irrigation ti gation ration Is the coming necessity and that by br it our natural resources can be un- un to a degree undreamed of ot and andor stir Dr or population and end industry more than doubled within our O continental limits His RIM work here will mark the special achievement of his administration and his hie Irrigation proclamation will go down hot y ory nn a an Q r nn acts a Potency of National rd Act The National Irrigation Act is gauged z on an honest intelligent extensive plan well ell considered and will be wisely carded carried car car- ried ded out By it we will be able able- as a r. r cation naton to add to all former triumphs of ot this Republic new illustrations of our power to do things By a system of ot Judicious forestry almost the entire area can be re forested in a hundred years The climate could be changed and im im- proved We could give an impetus to kind of trade which with very every our new lIew advantages in the Orient would more than double t the e volume of our present commercial traffic In this area of intense agricultural and horticultural development will be created a field for forthe forthe forthe the exercise of every kind Ind of skill and very every attainment of ot handicraft Here nere many of ot the vexed social and economic Questions are destined to be settled In riving giving to the Nation a race of landowners landowners land land- owners a race of men and end women willbe will willbe willbe be Insured who by interest instinct and andl l choice will be patriots o Innate Houie Owning Home Owning e Desire There Ther is an en innate inn desire in the heart t f the Saxon Anglo on American to own owna a borne ome There is an inherent lt yearning If 4 of the common people apparent on every p. p page e of history to own in fee simple some ome portion of ot the earth The desire desirer r li le still as keen as it ever was Of Ot all allf ll f ef f our wealth producing class the farmr farmer farm farm- r er r needs a home most He lIe must have haveland land band he should by all means own itt it t F His Ills farm tarm need not be so large as some suppose but it should belong to the K farmer timer not to some one else This is not only eT self evident dent because of ot the adt advantages ad ad- t vantages to the farmer but because of ot Its advantages to the Nation at large It is Js the cornerstone of our oar National life Ute It lies At the root of all true patriotism patriotism pa pa- and all social improvement and 1 content Give a man a home upon the soil and you fou have hue made him a patriot who will defend your institutions at the ballot ballott t box of or on the battle field Open the theY theA Y A doors of this great arid west with the key ker of ot National Irrigation and you need I not cot worry about the future Let the I people have han easy access to the land and 1 most of our other troubles will settle themselves The property owner is a conservative man mau who loves his family and his Ws country Let the property owner own own- It er u en Ve b. H as t numerous as possible Hope for Honest Honen Toll ToU y The Th k National Irrigation Act passed i t by a Republican Congress at Mr Roose Roose- Roosevelt Roosevelt velt nIt earnest request and as a result of ef f his bis personal efforts has alas as already besun be- be sun its work of measureless good to American citizenship It is placing 4 within the reach of ot the landless man maa manear manour t our oar manless land It is b to with speak t a t voice that cannot be misunderstood By combining the two powerful factors f et f irrigation and reclamation in its up up- building w work rk of ot the Nation its mission mis- mis aion sion will be well night irresistible It T. T will lift from the pathway of the bread breadwinner breadwinner breadwinner winner the dead weight of poverty and congestion which has obstructed our oar national national na na- donal progress created internecine struggles glee clea between capital and labor and threatened to shipwreck our ur future pros pros- r c Expansive Arena AreDa of Action The he arid and region extending in the main t from tram the Missouri River to the Pacific r A ct Ocean and from idler rr Mexico ico co to Canada embraces embraces em em- braces brac an area generally speaking of i about 1500 miles either way Here Her is I. t 0 t Is known as arid erid America The TAe r. r i i country abounds In mountains plains and valleys It Is here that the government government government govern govern- ment proposes pro to apply the workings of the National Irrigation Act and to reclaim reclaim reclaim re re- re- re claim all of ot the arid acid land laud which marbo may mar maybe maybo bo be ascertained to be arable and which Is found to be susceptible of reclamation reclamation tion by the amount of ot water available Government experts estimate that the tho present amount of ot land which may he irrigated is about one hundred mil toil acres This can be reclaimed by appling applying apply apply- ing fug the amount of water now v available direct It is also estimated that after irrigation has bas been applied to the soil for three or four years a less quantity of ot water is necessary and end hence an additional additional additional ad ad- area of perhaps fifty millions acres more may possibly be added to the reclamation area erea Nature Did the Needful Nature seems to have employed every resource at its command to make the mountain and plain region the most favored favored favored ored portion of the earths earth's surface for forthe forthe forthe the habitation of man This section will one day be the seat of ot empire of ot the United States and consequently the world For a distance of more than a thousand miles there are successive chains of mountains in general co course running north and south and on parallel l lines nes with numerous valleys occupying the immediate ground round Each valley large or small has its stream carrying with rapid fall the melting snows of the tributary moun moun- talus The Th grades in general favor the operation of irrigating canals which take the water from streams and carry it at a moderate fall to lines above the cultivated land As the spring season season season sea sea- son advances the rainfall decreases the crops need more and more water which is furnished automatically by the gradual increase of ot the temperature along and up the mountain side reaching the lightest lightest lightest light light- est deposit of snow first and then during the later and hotter months drawing upon the reserve of the deeper and less easier melted ice at the higher altitudes Fertility of Arid Boil Boll Under UDder the rains of centuries much of the soluble plant foods in eastern soils have been washed into the sea Where no rainfall exists the plant food remains The analyses of soils show I that the arid lands and lands average three times as much potash six times as much ma magnesia magnesia mag mag- nesia and fourteen times as much lime as the humid lands Any farmer will tell you that a limestone country is a arich arich arich rich country To replace the food taken by growing plants the eastern farmer resorts to fertilizers and manure Starting Starting Starting Start Start- ing with a rich soil the also finds fertilizing strength in the water he uses The value held beld in solution solution solution tion in 36 86 inches of water the water water water-lt the amount applied to one acre in a season at the University of or Arizona Arizona amounted mounted amounted to Ten acres under irrigation average average average aver aver- age better returns than acre 40 crops in inthe inthe the he usual way Land Very Valuable In those communities of the west which have hae been created by irrigation the average yield of ot wheat potatoes and small fruits far exceeds that of the best farming district in Iowa or Missouri or the tho best part pact of ot the Mississippi Val- Val ley ey Although comparatively remote from the worlds world's markets for products an acre o of land under water rights Inthe in inthe inthe the very heart of the arid region will wll command a higher price than an acre cre In Inthe Inthe inthe the humid Mississippi Valley The farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers have bave learned that 40 acres well tilled tilled tilled till till- ed will yield more profit than acres Farmed in the old haphazard way Intensive Intensive In Iu farming and larger profits from smaller farms are arc making closely settled communities establishing nearby neighbors neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors schools churches and libraries and the isolation of old farm life lite no DO long longer r re e exists The farmer makes more mo mosey ey and the deadly monotony of life does not nat drive his children from home or his wife wite to the insane asylum Roosevelt Immortalized The passage of the National Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion Act is tantamount to saying that the west is already redeemed fit redeemed it t is now only a question of time Perhaps no law has been passed pasted since the foundation foundation foundation tion of this government which has been or can be so 50 prolific in great and lasting lasting last last- ing lag results to the United States No law has ever been enacted which will add so much stability wealth happiness happiness happiness happi happi- ness and end general prosperity to the people peer pea pIe and the government as the National Irrigation Law Here is a new field for the most hopeful hopeful hope hope- ful speculation It cannot be that any lUly human mind has yet been able to esti estimate mate the reaching far-reaching the fruitful results results results re re- which will wUl follow in the wake of ot this National Act Lincoln is immortalized immortal immortal- for his Emancipation Proclamation Roosevelt will be immortalized because he has done that which will set free from the of the congested centers centers centers cen cen- of population millions of families who can and will feel grateful to him and his bis memory as they sit under their own vine and figtree and enjoy all aU the comforts and contentment of their new and enlarged life of health happiness and usefulness |