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Show 7 A Good Men. I Out western farmers aro iu no mood ' to support a policy of colonization, with ..j Hb increased taxes and political corrup- "r tion, and itgunfair competition with ! their products. The, vast undeveloped .resources oP our western country, the millions of ji-roa that will 'await millions ' of .people, the lackof diversified industry and local 'markets which are Btill unknown un-known oyer thousands of equare miles in the west but which aro bo essentia v to the plenaures and profits of farm life', ' these cry out for attention. Lot ua continue the policy under which the ? . " "United States has kept pence with other 'nations for more than a century, during which our people have advanced eo L ' wonderfully. Another hundred years of . thia policy will see America united in k Vono people whose civilization will be the " ' . f marvel, the hope and the inspiration of tne world. Our western farmeiB want j-S, ncoalingstntionntl'earlharboranother lff' ' lit Manila, and two or three in tho West $f' Indies.' The iirst we have, the others W$k juny justly bo claimed as prizes of tho tp war. But after theae, let ug Btick to.tho 1,1 $ original high purpose to bestow a stable ' government upon our oppressed neighbors, and not go olt on a tungont for equatorial possession whose purchase . jjt from us would not average one bolly- 4 i , ' band per capita per year! Congrtss 1 ifo ' s needs to hear from the fnrmeds. Write I IL your congressman to do his duty by the. f W 'l millions at home before seeking carpet- I it bag glory abroad. Tliese subjects must W bo attended to now, so as to bo prepared for the time when the war shall havo f been preHsea to a victorious end by an ' unanimoua people. Orango Judd 1 Parmer. i t , .. i |