Show NEW E R A F 0 PH G E A T WEST president national irrigation act to be a wonder worker MILLIONS OF CHEERFUL HAPPY HOMES avenue of relief to congested cities health prosperity and patriotism fostered by contact with soil republican party leads the way even the democrats are beginning to fill cometh ng of the poss b bl I 1 t es for fed pod which are to come to the whole united states through the national irn gation set ct passed by a can con co rr a and nd signed by pree pres dent roosevelt M iene T 7 1902 the are now stal ming that they d d it still the facts remain that pres dent roosevelt ky y the th force of his own ident ty put the measure aur through congress and made it tiu 64 law of the land with his offic al sig as 8 president it li in not a dream but a fact that the present population of the un ted states no a be b duplicated on the and arid public do ilia in the west this can be be done done without rit hout making new commet tors for those tho already engaged in agricultural fur in the bast and in the south Us b the other hand this wonderful act of planting a new nation in what I 1 is 3 now all but an unbroken desert will confer enormous benefits on those a sections ruch which are r already covered with farms tc torl and towns bli internal problem problems in a oar our great west a population of 1100 might live in prosperous con bent mont there is everything to inspire and ad reward their laidus industry try the charm of ornate and of scenery the fertility of BOIL oil the th wealth of water forest rut and mine and across the pacific tow w worlds to conquer our biggest in israel ral question to day is the preparation and nd colonization of this productive area irkle nation must keep on with its his writ work of civilization it must con dinue that marvelous reciprocal process by which it has so rap adly risen to im measurable he gats of economic power the tt making of new communities to feed the tk old the enlargement of old commom ties to feed the new the longest step rt taken to th s end is adoption 0 of f the plan lan of nat onal irrigation chiefly through the instrumental ty of pres dent roosevelt it is a ne new pol cy only at present in its experimental stage but goose who know most about it believe it of a measure big with national fate momentous new bra we W are entering upon a new and mo fentous era that calls for the highest att litie les of 0 constructive statesmanship R movement must be broadly founded cad and firmly and intelligently managed we are r planning not tor for ourselves but for attire generations for we are the fore fathers ahr of a in m gaty future in a in gaty land it we ara equal to our duty and our ar opportunities we shall make homes or a hundred aillon mil on of the freest men arho ver ever walked the earth W we are I 1 ving in an age of mighty achievement eng works wh ch eh tte the lart last generation would have thought an I 1 ty ansill ill be the completed talk task of this generation the new york abway subway the great tunnel of the penn melvania lyl vania re ra broad the isthmian canal and Us ta salt river re ervo r in ar zona and ahr other mammoth irr gat on projects will soon tand stand as co monuments to its til constructive geu gen us of our people and tui age the future is potent with stil still grander mader undertakings which will in a few w brief years also stand as at ascom com facts egypt was for centuries M she granary of the world that land of mystery end and romance was the cradle of vw our civilization for countless ages the ml has his risen annually to fertilize the land nd which has yielded from year to far fear the sustenance uste nance of teeming in 11 ons greatest question of the are age the question of irrigation which now a fronts the people of the united states eat of the th moat most important of the age rt km to 1 of more importance than the lath dalas canal or a deep waterway to the 0 it involves the solution of the tor for mf 4 a and flood problem it embrace embraces the tutor future internal development of the unit od d fixates it will require years of work to perfect the system of national irnia aan 1 but it will be the greatest benefit vr conferred on the western people mn mon may be cruel and unfair but na go am Is 1 generous and utterly Ina impartial re 8 arth earth the sun and the waters water are As A kind to the poor as to the rich the OMM do d not stop to look up a man mans s 11 banding standing tan ding before consenting to bloom for him they grow wherever rorer glinted platted they cover the poor man a cot tar lage as gladly aa as they do the rich man a Rus husbandry bandry make makes rat patriot riots nation may spring into being gener mod by the force of ideas alone but ow fr vigorous rif orous manhood the mature growth bf a state can only be nurtured and bollt up upon the abundant and mani mini told id production productions ot of the th earth the very existence and advance of civilization are ar urmey rounded grounded on material resources lations become treat great and independent 0 they develop a it genius for grasping the th forces and materials of nature within their reach and nd converting them into a steady towing stream of wealth and con corn tort urt Ts hold a people in industrious pro doci tive contented habits abets habits of vir we to and nd of patriotism it is needful to give them an interest in the cultivation of land this tact fact Is seen along the for of t historic time wherever gov raint has made laws which hav have div do the th people of the land its it occupancy on air terms then content and plenty kave ba been on every hand wherever it 61 ba boon hard for the masses to obtain the th use ui of the th land then discontent and have been rampant on very every band and frequently national ruin rain ham ha botu the result the noblest use to which any ay man or people can put history Is to tak oaks it ither either as warning or wig wise la in in the united states we hav have k h allty quantity and variety uch sack sap p plies and resources as no one govern ment in the world ever had before danger in congealed congested cities it it is is not w phout serious meaning that so many ot of our people are massing in cities that in cit eat es rents are going b h gh er and hence people are I 1 v ring in te fe ver rooms or smaller ones an ani I 1 that the at and consequent evin moral phy industrial intellectual and nat 40 lal ial are seen on every hand we are today to day passing through a period ot of prosper proper ty in the united states without parallel in the worlds world a history judging from the history of all nations th a may not con taue LLUU tely our leaders must know that they have to do not mot with supine men who have been trained to sive save obed ence a people who A ho stand ready to shut the r eyes open their mouths and take whatever what eyer is given and be contented therewith adverb ty will bring commotion in our cities as cold engenders hail la in irrigated garnr in contemplating the dangers of the future that may come to this republic the wise citizen should reach out and seize whatever remedy may be within his reach and apply it so that all the years to come may be free from fear and disturbing forces such as are always at work in every nat on that remedy ap pears to be to put the balance of our population back on the land and keep it there there seems to be no other rem edy the man who has his home upon mother earth the man who draws his living straight from nature a granary the man uncertain ties ot of a wage earner earners s employment the man who gathers his wife and children around hia his own hearthstone and gets his living by his own labor from hia his own land is the anchorage of th 9 country it behooves our statesmen to rise to the occasion and imbue the american people with a patriotic determinate on to turn the balance of our population back to the land and plant it at there with homes that no social upheaval can ever disturb this will safeguard this nation tor for all years to corn come all can have homes the nation has land for every man who will make his home bame upon it in good faith who will break the sod god plant crops bu id a house and settle down to support his family from the soil but the nation has no land at least it ought to have none tor for the man who merely seeks to forestall the actual settler and sell out to him at a profit or become a landlord Maid lord collecting income from bis his ten ant land monopoly robs men of a large portion of the products ot of their labor it null fies the sp nt rit of const tut ional guar artees which seeks to give assurance of pol freedom io no man is tree free in the true sense sene sen e of the term who is beholden to another tor for the means of his existence and land monopoly makes rebels instead of patriots in the case of ireland it drove more than halt half the lation ration away from its native soil it filled their hearts with b tt erness and even sent some of her children into the ranks of england a enemies in the hour of her great trouble will help the bast hast the subjugate on and settlement of the great emp re of public lands means that every factory wheel in the united states must whirl faster that every banking house must handle more money and that every railroad must transport more pas and this in turn means mean a a large and busier population in every eastern and southern town and that of course will qu cleat and enlarge the demand for all the products of the soil goal in the older sections of the country in the meantime that which is grown from the soil to be conquered by irrigation in the west will go almost exclusively to the feeding of new home markets to be erect ed within the arid and reg on itself and to the satisfying of unlimited demand demands in the orient and in the frozen north limitless LImtt lee oriental trade visible increase in american tonnage in trade between the asiatic bast east and the pacific coast is beyond the concep tion of the ordinary citizen this trans por tation issue concerns the merchant the manufacturer and the mechanic of the atlantic states th the middle state states and the th far west as well as the pacific coast these merchants mer chanta manufacturer manufacturers and mechanics have the same interest in 14 the asiatic trade that they hav hay in the irrigation development of our arid and aemi semi arid and land the larger that trade the greater the demand for the industrial products of the vast region east of the th rocky mountains the greater the th eal afi clency of trans pacific transportation the greater our trade with asia in a way the merchants manufacture era and mechanics east of the rocky mountains have more at stake than have the pacific coast states increased trad trade with ith asia especially an increased demand for american food stuffs means in creased agricultural commercial and in du dustral activity on the pacific coast a larger population on the pacific and finally the most important of all a larger home market for what the people of the pacific coast call the th american but east improved transportation th the transportation issue la Is tiling settling itself the transcontinental trans continental railway companie companies tace face a globe circling compeli tion that forces them to raise ralso the th em clenel of their systems west of chi cago the steam lines of the ocean are meeting the transportation demand demands thus the american commerce com merc with the asiatic bait east Is U insured by that gibat promoter of trade known as swift and regular transportation the complement of this transportation is a steady and rel able flow of freight here irrigation comes into play irn gation insures regular crops and there tore fore a fixed volume of tre fre even as a reliable transportation aton at on insures regular trade these phases of national life are arp part and parcel of the evolutionary process that has made the united states the trade leader of the world the acrivi ties of the country are rising to the new economic standard lie he who fails falls to see this should seek a new perspective to the ordinary man the term asiatic trade lacks special significance he knows it relates to trade with asia and that we are constantly exporting to and importing from asia he ile does not realize that all the lead ng countries of the earth are competing for the trade of several hundred in mon As antics and that this trade la Is really the greatest commer cominer cial prize of the day he ile does not realize that this trade may be the tire making of his own trade calling or business your I 1 personal interest farmers rancher ranchers miner lumbermen merchants laborers of the west do not vote against your own interests that of your family and years yours and the r future ote for roosevelt and fairbanks they have brought you glad tid in an the na dional irr gat on act its workings have already begun under its it operation there will be a tendency to balance interests and thus help in a powerful way to keep the government steady it will settle t the he beef question every acre irrigated would produce more than thirty timea times as much as is now produced on any of wr our wild arid lands it will produce new towns of moderate size where all the voc vocations actions of trade traded of learning literature and re ligion will nourish flourish it wilt will change the face of the earth it will change the face of the sky it will mod mad ty fy the at biosphere mo sphere it will change the climate it will give life health joy end and pros penty to the people work for republican party when we come to contemplate t the he whole field of natural western re sources available for food for industry and for commerce when w we attempt to grasp in one act of thought the length and breadth and depth of the riches with which providence has loaded thi this sec see don when we try to realize how every poss ble want every material aspiration of man can be bountifully provided tor for when we consider how measureless are tire the values which will spring into being at the touch of modern industry and how these values when once created are re solid and real and become rated into the enduring structure of hu ina man society we may begin to es a dimate properly the measure of responsibility which winch rests upon this na nit tion and its it chosen rulers this is not merely to preserve unharmed the priceless boom of civil liberty which leaves the individual citizen tree free to do his share la in work of development blit but to adopt such measures us as will prevent the wait waste of natural resources clear the way of 0 progress and promote the triumph of dr the record of the republican party shows it to be a party of progress pro greit |