| Show nevada is tho victim of circumstances eich in the potentialities of material greatness and therefore strong in the capacity to support a social structure she presents the baffling paradox of a declining population in a western state if she were located in south africa the nations of europe would plot and struggle for possession of her minerals lands and waters if in new south wales the colonial government would employ the public capital to reclaim her deserts and to enable the surplus population of adelaide to make homes upon her soil if in germany tho imperial government would charter rent banks to operate under a commission in preparing the land for settlement and building humble houses to bo purchased by home seekers on generous terms if in holland the servants of the little queen would extend the admirable colonies which have flourished for 75 years graduating thousands of needy men from beggary to tenantry from tenantry to proprietorship william E smythe in edya |
