Show t REASONS f S S FOR SOME THINGS Champ Chump Clark was intel interviewed ly hy- Edward by-Edward Echard Marshall E for the New York Times The rho interview w is S v r I but wish visit refer I I very ng we to to only one subject t of it today ar He was wm speaking o ora ofa a possible congestion of or people on our soil After a tl while ii lii hi mentioned hi his own Pike county in b Missouri as t t p presenting a strOng tr h argument against it saying i thai that if it comprises s square e miles of f land laud j acres acre which a according cor ing to Se Wilsons Wilson's n r report port l 2 t 44 00 people but being richer j th the average count county in Missouri is and Missouri bring richer than the average Mississippi valley j f r people As s a a matter of fact it has a popi population pop- pop i Elation of about a aV V r lIe He held that up P as RS showing the vast possibilities L ties tics of the growth of the i valley states in in da lays days s 's to lo come and then deplored that the vast T horde of immigration stops in the cities and ind thought J it should be distri distributed not only for its own but r. r c 1 tl the coun country's t l' l s good 1 Iii he thought it preposterous 3 Massachusetts j-Massachusetts t should be gaining So rapidly in in population pop pop- 1 i i t illation while such an nil imperial commonwealth as t Iowa oW should should be hc falling behind i i K That is 18 hut but why should l it be he so v i 4 Threescore years ago tHO the bull whip of or tu the Pike county man was wak resounding all di the wa way from tl the Mississippi river to the Sacramento river ri Why h was that 1 The llie soil of Pike ike county wits was as rich as it itS itis S is 5 now flOW Hud and much cheaper in price But the Piko Pik- ik 5 county count p man l loaded his s household go gods ls and goods goodson on OH the big wagon attached the tha oxon oxen and nul came camo aW away Q singing as US he lie came clime The Ilic sin singing ing soothed S him unit and served sel a R notice on cray l ar wolves and savages sav Ra av- av ages not to disturb him But why did lie he j S 'S move 7 Not altogether that flint he was a natural wanderer wan wan- d derer r r. r a au and lt f frontiersman onti l. l Ie IC was to try to gather cr I lr for himself some of the gold of f the tho west And the he l reason reason he lie came caine a away p was was' the very crr reason renson that hint ca causes th the in incoming r foreigner to stop top on oti the he wa way p I tj ti that fair and nud rich Pike county What That can he be do f inhere without a little of that thal leaven called monc money I with which It to begin to raise hi his lowly fortune 1 The Tho reason Iowa hn has fallen in iii population Oll ii IJ in the ther vs r last l Bt decade is due we take la it to tIll the moving mo out pf t elder Il cr suns sons and amI taking with Willi them as aN wives the elder olIer q d daughters uJ of their neighbors The Tile disposition li n is not 1 to up the tho big farms They have Im been pr profitable profit profit- ab able for several se years so 80 the older sous US have tal taken S their heir portions if I in iii money and IW kept Jt th thc old farms in- in m- m tact act They have gone west anti and to Cana Canada a an and Iowa has had a hard t time me holding her bel own 0 l The Tue hc reason Massachusetts s has increased in peo people pIe is that shin sho has imported more foreigners than enough to to- equal her native sons that ha have haC C moved Ulo away Massachusetts l is rapidly becoming a foreign ta l' l or 01 l more lOre properly p speaking she is American American- Americanizing i zing izing a second crop of foreigners and und we fear they lack ack ninny many of or the sturdy r qualities of or the original But why do 10 t the foreigners stop there 1 For the tile same old reason reason they they can get money for their la- la bor jor It may mar not be he very cry much but it suffices tor their wants th this the small wages are princely compared com coni- pared with what they obtained in their native coun- coun tries ries Massachusetts is covered with manufactories and amid they pay par money to their employees ees Massachusetts gains in population Iowa falls n and ul s SO 5 would Missouri except for fOl her three great cities awl and extensive c manufactures The rhe truth is a purely agriC agricultural state toes does not make for either the thc highest progress or cult cultivation iva- iva lion tion of her people It will be lie different when cultivating cul- cul I cuI-I t the soil is reduced to a perfect science and the thc hours of labor on the farm reduced third one-third but Dill not before It Tt is as true trim now v as civilization in a country advances or recedes as the thc money of the people increases or decreases This the more it i is ip contemplated makes tho more clear the crime committed by the president and congress who just Jen the country needed mone money as nc never pcr before at the beck of or the so 60 called financiers of Jf the the country f struck down half haIr the primary mn money ey of or the time world It was the thc crime ii ne of f the l last hit st century nt ry something greater in material loss than the tho civil war Wa of 65 1861 cost I I |