| Show Movement Central I Back to the Farm Thought g gT of Big Commercial Congress I ITHE back to the farm movement is necessarily of primary importance im importance im- im THE T ortance to the west No section of the country needs efficient P intensive farming to the degree that it has hns become requisite to western development The history of men and of nations proves that all branches of human activity with the exception of agriculture could be eliminated without banishing mankind from the earth But when the products of the orchard tho the field and the range disappear from the marts of or trade then existence itself is threatened because the human body y must bo be fed And existence becomes more difficult as ns the ratio of producers to consumers decreases This problem is is the most important that the American nation faces and it was primarily with the hope of its solution that the Trans Commercial Congress was founded Any AuY discussion of western resources and their development that that excluded from consideration the millions of acres of arable land that await the coming of the tiller and cultivator would be utterly futile The basic basie prosperity of a given community may depend directly upon manufactures for its renewal but indirectly it goes farther back to the contributing farming country The remoteness of the west 1 from the tho great distributing centers will prevent for years ears to come any settled dependence upon manufacturing as its chief mainstay this great inland empire must depend directly upon the agricultural development and andas as this latter lags so will the industrial progress loiter upon the way towards to the highest measure of prosperity Practically every theme thene adopted for discussion at the congress boars bears directly upon this fundamental idea of or putting to the best the undeveloped lands of the west It is the central thought of the sessions of tho the Trans-Mississippi Trans congress because any movement f for or western advancement must first of all take into account tho the necessity of bringing bringing bringing bring bring- ing its broad acres under cultivation The time was when America could contest with Russia for the title as the granary of tho the world That time has passed because of the rapid increase of our population and the decrease in the number of producers both conditions traveling at high speed towards a a. situation when America will be as much at the tho mercy of other countries for its food as is England If the tIle men who are to gather here hero today to discuss the needs of the west and to formulate plans to supply and satisfy those needs can invent a method by which the idle land of the tho west may be bo placed at profitable employment they will not only have solved the stupendous problem which besets this section bf f the United States but they will have gone far to furnish an answer er to the question concerning tho the high cost of living Many and varied are arc the reasons given gi for this latter but the tho constantly increasing number of consumers and the but slight ht increase in cultivated acreage in the United Stales States must bear their share of the responsibility A 1 P YOU owned an automobile and your neighbor I IP I who ho has no such claim upon membership in in inthe British B h the aristocracy should seize the machine and Impudence use usa it suggesting upon your Y violent protest that on Canal the terms upon which you and he should both use the auto be referred to four or f five ve other neigh neigh- nei neighbors h- h Q Question on bors hors none of whom is IS possessed of OL a an automobile your disgust would be liko that of Uncle Sam with reference to the Panama canal Having constructed this great eat waterway upon his own ground havi having g made the tho the plans plans himself done the work himself and met the expense with his is own pocketbook Uncle Sam discovers that Great Britain means to s submit to The Hague tribunal the question whether he may pass his own vessels through h his his own canal on his own terms while malting making no discrimination concerning the craft of other nations The thief who grasps your pocketbook and runs rarely has the unblushing assurance to suggest when overtaken that tho the question of ownership o of the purse be submitted to a jury of pickpockets Yet that in effect is the attitude of the British government and the British press with reference to the tho canal They still allege to believe that the Hay treaty refuses to American vessels any privileges that are aie not enjoyed by the vessels of other nations although the canal is American property 4 THE lIE abandonment of a n number of army posts THE J and the mobilization of larger forces at ata Salt L Lake he a those remaining is one of the hobbies bobbies of Should Be the Secret Secretary ry of War r ar and n his trip of inspection Included which ho he has just begun is presumably for the thein thein in Trip purpose of collecting material to support his attitude attitude attitude at at- preliminary to a renewal of his recommendations recommendations recommendations at the next session of Congress While Salt Lake Lako was not included in the first list of those cities which ho would visit it is to be hoped that the head hend of the war department will see fit to inspect Fort Douglas We do not believe that after studying its advantages climatic as well as topographical and geographical geographical geographical geo geo- graphical that he will press his former recommendation that the Salt Lake post be among those which shall be abandoned In fact this would be an excellent time to impress more fully upon Secretary Stimson the desire to have havo Fort Douglas elevated to the dignity of a brigade post It seems probable that other post locations will be bo abandoned and that some of those to be retained will be selected for accretion in importance Fort Douglas ought to be among this latter number for reasons which we ve an in Salt Lake understand and which we could fully explain to the Secretary of War if he will include the center enter of the solid west in his itinerary 4 I ITH the Governor of the state the city officials of of- I Portland WITH and the county officers includIng including including ing the prosecutor and the sheriff engaged en en- Ought to toBe in the tho occupation oi of cleansing Portland Be Given that city should soon be as s lily white as the Sympathy spotless S town which we read rend about in the soap advertisements and never find anywhere else Which being interpreted means that the metropolis his lis o of Oregon is s und undergoing g ono one of those spasmodic attempts at forcing public an and private virtue v common c to American cities and which rarely leave them any better or worse than they were before It is an unfortunate unfortunate American habit to essay periodical and intermittent efforts at law Jaw enforcement which usually stops short of entire success and are arc followed by utter disregard of the statutes until another periodical is b begun Some day the combined intelligence of the American public will 1 be concentrated upon the soh solution tion o of this problem When Then it is I reform will come to stay f t f WILL WILLARD WILLARD RD ASHTON was of that thatA thatA A Citizen ji BRIGHAM U type of citizenship which Utah can ill afford afford af at ford to lose His intelligent and aud well di Utah Whom reeled efforts in the cause of e education made him Cannot valuable to the community and his demise will Well S Spare P are cause deep regret in that part 1 part part of the county country Y where his energies have for the past few years ears been especially centered But in the larger sense i of his influence upon those with whom he came he-came came into contact his absence absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence will be keenly felt His activities at the head of t the hc schools of Salt SaIt Lake county for some years and his later Inter work as superintendent of the Granite district gave him lim a deep insight into the nee needs s of the people and he made it his constant aim to advance their then interests Intolerance In tolerance never found in him a disciple and agitation for the mere sake of it never had his sympathy His influence w was as constantly wielded for good and i it t can a best be said of him that he filled his hit sphere in life to the highest measure mea ure possible It 1 A Chicago p physician I. I n says that women prefer the flee cave caie ma man Why h Y shouldn't they 7 Dentists charge enough to afford them goo good go od incomes Incomes Big fund behind Becker Be l cr says a a. a h headline d nc Also the b big b funis fun funis is all 1 behind him i 1 I f r. r J i |
