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Show NO SOCIAL REVOLUTION. Once in a while wo hear expressed the fear that we aro on the vcrgo of a social revolution, but social philosophers, philoso-phers, who are supposed to know more about this question than most others, agree that there will never be Imminent Immin-ent danger of a social revolution In this country until tho country Is overcrowded over-crowded and land can no longer bo obtained. ob-tained. If that is so, then the danger is exceedingly remote. Tho public domain still contains hundreds of millions of acres that can bo brought under cultivation, to say nothing of what are known as arid lands. And recent discoveries show that most of these so called arid lands are tillable, even without irrigation. It Is a demontsrated fact that wherever wher-ever the annual rainfall averages as high as twelve inches as good crops can be raised without Irrigation as with it. Ttils means, according to an authority on tho subject writing iu the Century Magazine, that "almost every acre of the great plains between' the Missouri river and the Itocky mountains and most of tho Inter-mountain Inter-mountain parks and plateaus between the Rockies and tho Pacific, will produce pro-duce as abundantly as will thu rich prairie lands of Iowa, Missouri and Illinois, and much more abundantly than the richest of the lands In any of tho older states along the Atlantic sea-board; that there is enough land now utilized, If at all, for grazing only to make possible the trebling or quadrupling quad-rupling of the present farming population popula-tion of the United States; that the region between the foothills of the Itocky mountains, bounded on the south bv the RIoQraude and on the north by tho Canadian border, is capable cap-able of producing fruits, cereals, vegetables veg-etables and live stock sufficient for the support of the entire present population popula-tion of the globe." The more one learns about the United States and Its possibilities, the safer It seems to bet on the country--to use John W. flates' famous phrase |