| Show Spi spirit of ho the press chicago herald if it there war were s no other argument aga against dinst the if henry eny georges single tabers and vie visionaries vision fonaries aries innumerable than this that mans best and highest hope is to tor for a home for some place that he be can earl call bis his own where be he can have bis his family about him and enjoy with them the craite of bis his labor that fact of itself would be more than sufficient clent to overturn the fine spun theories about equal rights to air and water and light and land we are born with a thirst for land and acquiring some to still get got more all history is full of instances to this effect from the time that the children of israel took possession of the promised land down to this very day when oklahoma raiders stand ready to grab whatever they bee see in sight let nu fanciful arcadian after this expect to see a time when a ma man a W will ill not seek to oa own the land oa on W which blob he lives bait salt lake tribune it makes one weary to read that as brainy a man as major mckinley will repeat night after n night ight foch such rot as to tell bis his bearers that should free silver be ordered by our congress the silver of the world would rush in on ns us the silver of what world and where is the silver there is no silver bullion in ear europe 0 pe there is very little a in mexico maxico to rake the world with a fine tooth comb it would not be possible to secure a hundred millions or fifty millions to fend to our country from all the foreign countries of the world without the sender suffering a loss of from 4 to 7 per cent major mckinley ought to know that careful business men do not engage in that kind of business and some bome friend ought to quietly pull his coattail coat tail and say to him ma major jo mckinley confine yourself to the ta tariff riff that is legitimate but do not 91 give ive away how little you know about abou t silver by an attempted discussion on oil that subject chicago tribune slavery dragged down the free laborer wherever it e existed it feted the democracy was the incessant champion of slavery it labored to protect it where it existed and to extend it to sections which it had not pol polluted democracy made missouri a slave state and degraded labor there it tried to make kansas a slave state that it erht lower the dignity of labor there the republicans who abolished slavery were the true t friends of the workingman working maa before and after the war the da democrats ocris f favored the abolition of protective duties BO so that the workingmen ol 01 this country might be exposed to the full force of the competition corn petition of the much lower paid and poorer fed labor of europe the result would be that the former would have to lower their wages and live after the poor fashion of the countries they mostly came from and yet for years the very men who ho have been given good wages wage by the republican party have been voting and working against it are not this blind inconsistency of the voters and fraud frand on them by b y their leaders leadem most deplorable 7 denver republican in a recent issue the springfield republican discusses the subject of a cession of the arid states and territories for the purpose of reclamation it concedes virtually that if the arid lands must be reclaimed the best beat way to accod accomplish elih that result is through a cession of those lands to the states ald territories it is however opposed to the reclamation in of the arl arid re region ton and says the real objection lies against the irrigation of these lands at all which only means an increase of products of which 0 our ur present t supply taking one year with ano therla therle larger than there gar has as been a market for at prices satisfactory f to the farmer this is a strange position forso tor so well conducted a paper as the springfield republican to take it virtually amounts to a declaration that the production of food in this country should be limited in order that the farmers farmere may obtain better prices than they would otherwise be able to obtain for their products it is a peculiar kind of political economy which says that the supply of food should be curtailed for any reason A wiser policy would say that the food production of tho the world should be made as great sible and that the effort of political economists should be to increase Inc the meana means of distribution eo so as to place this food within the reach of the greatest number of people possible poa sible bat but as a matter of fact the farmers who do not live in the arid region have very little to fear from tanners farmers who cultivate their lands by meana means of irrigation however great the area of irrigated i r r ig a t ed land 1 a n d may i ca y become b e c 0 m e a market m a rk for f 0 r the t b e products pr 0 d n ct 0 of 1 euch a n c h land 1 a n d will w i ll 11 always sit be found within the limits of the arid region rf gion mining manufacturing t u r in g and a n d the growth ro w tl i of cities towns and a n d villager vill v ill agea a g ea will will i always a 1 w s ye produce a local market great enough to consume the main part of the product 0 of all the land in the arid region that ia is now or will hereafter be reclaimed if 11 during some years there shall be an overproduction ol 01 certain crops crop sin in the arid and region it will sho show w not that the agricultural area of 0 th the e arid ar ld states and territories is too great but only that there has not bee been n sufficient diversity of cromb ro but dicurti discarding 1 z for the moment all considerations of 0 f this sort why should the people of the arid region be deprived for the sake of benefiting ben entine farmers of other sections of the privilege of growing their own food why should the inhabitants of this part of the union be made to pay tribute to the farmers of the mississippi valley when there are thousands of acres of land in this and other arid stales states which may way be made to prod produce uce large crops by means of irrigation the argument of the springfield republican Is a purely selfish eel bah one it seeks to do a wrong to the people of this part of tho the country for the sake bake of helping the agriculturists of another I 1 part |
