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Show THE HO I. El IT. CMOKl "S They are at it again. That is the doleful thorns are all ready predicting dire consequences for this country after the close of the war in Europe. They will have it that when peace is declared the foreign governments and manufacturers wiil be so huagry for markets that they wiil reduce the cost of labor to a consireral.le extent and thereby be a! le to sell their products pro-ducts in this and other countries for less than we can manufacture them. They may, and again they may not. But suppose they do what of it? Is this nation dependent upon the goods we manufacture and sell in foreign markets? Far from it. If we never exported another article arti-cle we would continue to live and thrive just the satv.e. In the United States there are over six hundred million acres of unreserved unre-served land waiting for the bite of the plow, and millions upon millions of the land popularly supposed to tie tinder cultivation is only about half utilized. The crying need of this country is not greater foreign markets for manufactured man-ufactured goods. It needs millions of men back upon the farm where they belong and should never have ie.t. It needs a country wide movement for the development of every avail- j able acre of land from ocean to ocean. , It needs educational courses in in- , tensified farming, in the raising of j i stock, in extracting from the mother ' earth the splendid sustenance that has lain dormant since the beginning of time. ! If the doors of the entire world were closed to the Vnited States we would continue to be a great and growing and prosperous country. We have rich and fertile land, and that which sustains life must come from the land. Practically everything that is no. essary to our material welfare can be ruff e'u'eJ in this country from raw material that is produced in this country. Kvery ounce of foodstuffs we re-ouire re-ouire can be grown in this country enough and to spare. In not a single material instance are we dependent upon the products of any foreign nation on the face of rr1obe. - ' o' "tinv of 01!" --! re'u -e 'he number of :r'-fs in our country, ami .-it p. en fo'-ce some of our gilded j outh of fash'o'i to turn their hands V-.-e'.t lo-'l through the shutting " r.r :rnrmil incomes. ; ..i.i.l force millions of workmen -i 'eno tho'r forces and lathes and -.-.-7i to the green fields of the farm. t- would be the means of convert--t this into the greatest agricultural ountry on the fare of the globe. by cetting back to nature we Id reduce the outraceous cost of ;.,. tftit 's low becoming a burden -i hrH the re-"'l" of our land. 1 e' the dolc'ul chorus sing their 'o of woe. It may come, or it may not. But keep ever in mind the fact i that the future of this country is in he soil and in the manhood of our ! eonle. When the two join hands the wolf j '11 slink away from the door. ! r r |