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Show POSSIBILITIES. Governments cannot furnish business for the people, but it can often legitimately remove obstacles ob-stacles from the path of the people and give individual indi-vidual effort increased opportunities. The irrigation irriga-tion law is the best example of this that has been supplied for a long time. The Government simply takes property, valueless by itself, makes it valuable and then gives the worker a chance to use his brain and brawn upon that property until the Government is reimbursed, then the worker has a home. There are other fields where in a direct or indirect in-direct way the Government might assist people without loss. The Government guaranteed the bond's of the old Central and Union Pacific Railroads. Rail-roads. Within a jar after the roads were completed com-pleted the Government was more than even, for the roads opened up an empire to settlement; opened a country which supplied the bullion necessary ne-cessary to resume specie payment; reduced the cost of transportation by tens of thousands of dollars to the Government annually; practically put an end to Indian wars, and enabled tens of thousands of men to become producers, to make homes and to set in glorious motion a thousand industries. But that act of the Government was denounced by a hostile press and party for thirty years as a robbery of the masses in order to create a few millionaires. The final result was ' i tii , .i . i iSHHH that the Government received back every cent , j' jB both principal and interest, of the advances it 1 l BB had made. During that thirty years, too, the I ' Bfl prestige of our country as a world power was j flfl tremendously advanced, in great measure, because ' fflflH of the road and the industries that lined its track j,; HH across the continent. It is worthy the most care- jSH ful thought of the statesman, to investigate and fil see if it is not possible in other directions to ap- ' I mhH ply the same principle, for the hosts of the poor WM in our country and constantly increasing and the opportunities for them are growing fewer. Look- jnR ing over the imports to our country there are IE seen many things for which millions of dollars , j flj are paid annually, which should be purchased at home. Some of these a tariff might reach as it j 'M did in the case of the tin plate industry, but oth- jjH ers will require years of skilled training to mas- 'flH ter, and this the Government should assist in . ,19 if possible. The potteries from which the j wEH Sevres ware is produced could not be dup- j MB licated in one or ten years in our coun- j tjflflj try because that industry is founded on art; the j MB whole works are but a vast studio wherein the J BB skill of hand and brain is fused into some cheap j VK material and gems of art are produced which the ( jiH rich are eager to buy. If the Government would j ! establish a great art school at Washington and j AH educate at it a few from every state, selected on SB merit, it would as surely get even on the invest- iiB ment after a while, as it did when it educated ' . IftK Ulysses Grant or George Dewey. Germany's ' Tj mighty commercial advance during the last i . fifl twenty years is more due to her textile and poly- j 1 1 MB ItK Ufi technic schools than to any other one cause. But , ('If this is not quite what we began to discuss. Are I II there not more ways through which the Govern- i' I ment can, without loss, open new paths to simple i ( industries, through which the unskilled can earn ' Fh their bread and retain their self respect? And , ! ! cannot each state help its own people along those ; j I' same lines? Many look to Government owner- M ship of public utilities as the panacea, would it , ;i! not be better to collect full taxes from the very t'l'jj rich and creeate new utilities Jthrough which the j;f ' i independent worker might work out his own jljj.'i salvation? |