Show WEST AND ORIENTAL TRADE how irrigation will develop the one and cor tainy secure the other ROOSEVEL TS INSPIRING americanism AMERIC ARISM I 1 while creating a new agricultural and horticultural hor t I 1 world at home he would establish commercial prestige in the orient th the heart of the treat great west has ha been touched bj by the sincere persistent effect tere friendship ot of president roosevelt it bad beun begun but only partially to feel its ts treat great need when this strong ideal american stepped up to it and handed tt it the eol got lea leu key wh wit ch ell Is to unlock it its lim aless tie latent wealth greater than theta the combined mineral deposits of 11 oil II the world I 1 one stroke of bis his pen be gare gave the va un 1 states a sew new empire greater in possibilities tor for good to the human race than all that other treat great section 4 between the atlantic ocean and the mississippi river the national II tation gation act will transform OW 00 acres of laud from desert to garden it will III creale create the greatest home market thu this country has eer klova it will make happy home homes for millions milli uns of free ameri amerl cans it will ill establish forever the pres tige use of our commerce in the orient it will cause I 1 resilient resident roosevelt a dams and od his official acts to be gratefully remembered for all time to come all the people interested all ali american citizens are essentially interested iu in the operatic opera ope ratio alo a of the na lional irrigation act tor for the reason that its on domestic trade and foreign commerce Is de destined to be imply simply incalculable the reclamation of and america along the lines of the national irrigation act means a borne boome tor for every man who wants one it means bat that when a settler gets ready to obtain it 9 bare share of the national heritage he will obtain not only fertile soil but the water necessary to male make it a self sustaining staining eu borne loome and that the water right Is guaranteed by the government core of the united states th tit 3 is in beyond all U comparison com one of the greatest things ever attempt ed by the american people pregnant with great possibilities Is tw hi proposed irrigation of 0 cres acres of the people a domain an area that now supports but a meager Is lation tion under irrigation farms arms are small because the yield of the land is very much greater la in proportion to cost and operating expenses tuan than it Is where tho th cloud clouds are the first and sole ole reliance tor for a water supply it follows that there will be a dome delete population on our arri fated gated area and a greatly mar let tor for the min naturel prod lets sets ot of the rest of the country the railroads and all 11 II other industries will profit by the declan of a region so vast la in ex tent ant an I 1 its it settlement by a prosperous population oneth compare accord life ng to the national census of law the total fall roved farm area of the united nas as SUU WO acres it la to conservatively estimated that the re to claimable land Is not lew less than OW acres its therefore mill ill adl ail 1 much more than one offe fourth to the actual crop producing area of the country a id v will ill exceed by a liberal mr mar riu gin the tillable land of all the states on the coast from maine to fluride except a modest portion of 0 new neu york Ilow iDS twenty acres as the average eize size of irrigated farms th ill a area trill will make male tarn farms or more thin the to imber in the united states la in 1900 tl TI loul total value of all farms la in 1000 la in cl ug all improvements except buld b uld ings ID was 13 11 at 41 50 SOper per acre the are age value of irrigated laud land the la 14 OW acres to be reclaimed m ill ad fiji I 1 la to the value of the fanu farm laud if build use are unclad 1 I the value 1 will be increased by fl 2 WO OW wb wit ie Is the augmented wealth through ito railroads cities mill mills and factories is estimation the ao an nest 1 value of all the farm products in IWO wa was 43 the average per acre sere of products of Irria Irr ted land was 11 1181 81 at this rate the area to be reclaimed rec recia lamed niad will add product products worth 1851 an add t on of nearly half of the life sustaining power of the country I 1 W II 11 not compte compto comp te to with exit east national irritation irrigation will amount to erica series of loads by the government and the supervision ot of the ork and ui water distribution a to the ques con whether the product products of the ird tiled west mill compete willi with eastern farm 1 products it Is I 1 only toe o 0 to travel b h the vet west ami and see what tt it raise raises loader irrigation to understated that there III ill never be any such corn coin pt lation irrigated farms arms are small and too valuable to grow the atille prod lets sets they are devoted to fruit culture or to alfalfa ral minim sissi ID in california Oali tor for la in stance where irrigation Is I 1 oldest and w rt re its it highest types are ire found the fa ault unit instead of being or at ea as la in the but la Is 40 20 and 5 cree acres kine fruits wine wines aad and dairy product products are raised and cattle are fattened at leneil it Is I 1 dit tiIt to name a Califor california farm arm product which cornea comes east and actually competes om petee with eastern product a io I 1 I 1 we ft get from california orange oranges lem ans on prune prunes raisin figs ng olives 11 wines dried drw fruits etc luxuries on the other hand band the I 1 astern farmers armen derive a dia di benefit from irrigation in california for or it makes california toil and ehe she fur ibes a greedy market for every sort of eastern manufactured prodan prod net sending a ber money back to new england and throughout the but east and thereby gatimu let lit lit ig manufacturing baiar factories factor iea an well paid plead ly employed factory baud bands mean good Di disleris markets for or eastern farm form product products precedent cited our friends the farmers of the fart rest were somewhat alarmed as to what the result mieth be when the tide waal hii went ward and nd settling op up the eastern portion tion of the valley but the 0 eastern manufacturer cot got such a market as Is liot not to be found anywhere else out side of the mississippi N alley and the prosperity of the eastern manufacturer hai has in turn brought prosperity to the es eastern stern farmer uncle sam room has a great deal of t land laud and a great deal ot of rater water in ill the west that land is and and the water which would make it productive Is running to waste the propos kioa Is to irr fate gate theae these great moun tain lain valleys and plains and baad more homes and make more markets the eastern manufacturer will sell in the west but the western farmer will not sell la in the last except fruits traits and thing things like thit aich which will not compete nith ill the eastern farmer th 9 great work will take time it will require many rears years to wet all that dry land but we will begin now and go along carefully each year until the tits task is I 1 done not many dims dams or new neighbor hooda hoods will be started before the business men of 0 the east will bare have their trivel 11 ing ng men IQ in the west to sell goods think of 1 this great borne home market the whole world wants to get into the un ted led states to sell things but our home mar let Is for ourselves first to devel develop 0 p it to the fullest extent NV it 11 population the of and america will to a great extent balance our one sided aided development the eastern half of aba tbd united beates today to day has his a population of or over while the western half contains cont alna somewhere omen here in the neigh boyhood of or less than thin 10 per cent of the v w hole the new tion law Is I 1 working satisfactorily the country was fortunate in finding a bur eau east of the government goT emment already aquil ped to take up the question of survey surveys and construction immediately this la Is one of the greatest pieces of work which has tet eier come before this government the dama dams of d aches and weirs to be construct ed will be the greatest in the world they will stand not tor for generations bat but for centuries and contribute to the w well ell being of hundreds of millions of people arid america will contain by far the greatest irrigated area ares ot of any ay country iu its the world vt vast oriental commerce on the other band no person at 11 all II con with current affairs can doubt tho great future of the orient the la in ida td that border upon the pacific ocean contain nearly one half the total p OPU lalion lation of the globe because bemuse of 0 inadequate transportation tacil facil ties upon the and the people are more dependent than vi western estern nations upon maritime coin n erce the or ent IN bit magic la in the us ame me the fabulous vie of mys tery wealth art religion rel ision 11 hen amer left visa as undiscovered england the bom hora of rude savages a greece and rome unheard of 0 in the I 1 in dar dari i ae age ot lot mys before the dann dawn of history lived mil find flourished the oad erful tal or aut the far lait the islands beyond the tb sei china desea defies the norad in ase age po p ula don and industry it if all the i kilts of the world were stood up in one ou line every fourth man would be a chinaman ChIn AmIlL the pacific ocean which has ha for centuries been washing the bores shares of our western boundaries boun bound diries irles his said to us here liere lies lie the list this ta is the way to india but it his spoken luto into dumb eara ears U ve e beard but we beetled u t other others bare have alien taken warning that the th reat co to mercial development of th t fumire rut ire lies upon the broad aud lare 1 new linee lines of trudor and enlarged the capacity of those already formed last fear tear jakaj ch us boren b oren hone nong ivon and the it t n bian possessions fronting the pacific ocean did a bus nev with he be world abou amou biting to GOO fully two of this nas vt impart import D I 1 inns inn the year this country bought from them 7 of 0 good goods and ud only aid to them a little over len refal ul Con closest of thina bin the empire mp re r of china will eoon soon be opened in all pirt to the commerce of 0 the world and it becomes a question of the stairs th this country wj secure to in the face of existing comi the purpose at of trade Is primarily to secure a market for the manufactured commodities commod ties of the rist eru era state states and the tuni product products of the N alley but chest alone I 1 will oot not make cargoes for the lacoc 13 steamers tr amere it is essential in order to support iipp ort steamship burn tint thit a practically un con limited supply or of bulky balky tre fre be arail avail able for MI wheat and flour in this instance must 1 be relied upon the cotton will be furnished by the southern oa thera baates aad and will beir the freight charges to port ports of shipment thip ment but the leee less valuable bread breadstuffs stuffs neuit be grown a a 0 o the slope slopes of the contle otal of ride vide and the pacific in a order to corn coin pete la in price alth ith other grain growing countries countr len the fertile mou man talo lain talley valleys aill pro luce grain la in any oy desired quan city if the ground 14 1 irrigated A hitun tion Is this presented prcy buted which makes the success of an or trade of any con rille Ader sUlo volume 1 depe dep dependent almost soled ole ly upon the reclamation of the arid add lands will benefit Far the american farmer armer will be the chief the prominent gainer settler by the open in up of t tilt 1116 vast htiu aill to trade aul an I 1 commerce lor I 1 or there are limitations to oriental agricultural asri cultural resources Vs IS the Ae latice become learned in scientific w agriculture adopt modern method methods and increase the working efficiency of the in diri dual the discrepancy lu ill the price ot of labor will collath leh ish at present under I 1 the method m employed m one line inc rican farmer can do the labor of 0 seventy Chis samen ae As these condition conditions change in obedience to economic law laws the chi nee tanner farmer become becomes our competitor elator ill ahe had land value will re regulate the price of the product and no competitor the world over can enter the market 0 against our western prairie n e can place our food stas tB in the oriental market ni arlet et fit priced prices which bill III prove less 1 than the cost of producing them in uia ASIS and right here come comes the question n with ith this future before it lt what bat are the pos 0 of the arid and nest est an ka untold treasure house the product a of 0 which w bleb w 11 in one rear year exceed in ill value all the gold old coin since the world began begin grent great advantage for the farm r I 1 ie that unlike the manufacturer who must educate d M ta the orient in the use of must h hia P products r da t there are no prejudices to overcome come blithe in the case of foodstuff foodstuffs the Orien Orient talf als know their value and the market Is already made end and wilting waiting it la Is one that cannot be taken from us our Persi nat duty the twentieth century opens lor for the united beates with ian its industrial ma ch ell fiery adjusted to the production ot of T ealta on a scale of unprecedented mag dies in land in a labor supplemented by beet beat inventive kill skill in wealth the three great agents of action this country easily lead leads the world the reclamation of the art and d nest tt est and the axtens on of our car oriental trade ire are I 1 patriotic otle questions in which our na dional honor boner pride and profit ere are at stake 1 whosoever ho commands the sea ea CT et the trade whosoever coin mands winds the trade of the world commands the rich of the tho world and consequent ly the world arid itself this country haa has too much at take stake to leopard ze such vat vast interest interests and po pos ties every one knows what roosevelt ha bas done for the 11 est and where he stands on the questions of orient oriental trade tt IN bat has parler parker ever done tor for the west does be know that euch such a colin try exists |