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GREAT AND GROWING WEST
Irrigation Will Change Deserts to Gardens and
Provide lands for Millions ' of lomes.
RODS.EVEl STRONG , FRIENDLY HAND
A Policy that Increases the Sum of Human
Happiness and Enlarges and . Strengthens -
ens the Republic :
mten President Roosevelt aid , "I
DEIJO\G WEST OF TilE I1SS0URI '
RIVER ; ' he spoke from 'l his hoart. It
loved the east less ,
was not that he \
but the west more.
He felt that , in a certain way , the
country at large did not properly appre-
'ciate ' ' this crude , Wg brother , whose
wonderful development and accomplishments -
meats are destined to bring the greatest
family-the -
. fame and riches to the -
tion. ne got acquainted with this bit ! :
brother and found out that he was worth
winning and saving. ne started out at
once upon his patriotic and philanthropic !
mission.
Mr. Roosevelt firmly believes there is
nothing too good for the west. Ho bas '
put - that section next to its immeasurable -
able future , by the National Irrigation
Act ; which , it is universally admitted ,
could not have become n law without
tiis urgent personal influence in the
House . , any more than without his signature -
nature ns President. Then , there is his
" ( ) pen Door" policy ' in China , and" the
Panama Canal , assured as n pennnnent
highway to the world's commerce. Then e
measures : are vitAlly associated with the
, "est.
Know. and Loves the We.t
/ Ko other President has ever spoken at
such length or 60 explicitly on the sub
ject of irrigation. It is equally true thane
no other President ever had so wide an
acquaintance with the subject as Mr .
a 1toose\"elt ' possesses. lIe is , as it were ,
an adopted child or the vest . and knows ,
/ its wants and sjII1lathizes.'with them
the proposed reservoirs in connection
with the reclamation service will husband -
band for the great empire beyond the
Mississippi the waters necessary to add
the desert reaches there to ihabitations :
and producti\"ity. This will insure the
enduring qualities ot his fame. His i : I
knowledge ; o.t . the west shines through
' nil his utterances. He holds that irrigation -
gation is the coming necessity , and that
by it our natural : resources can be uncovered -
covered 10 a degree undreamed ot and
our population and industry more than
doubled within our continental limits .
His work here will mark the sJiJial
achievement of his administration , and
his irrigation proclamation will go down
in history as one ot ot the greatest acts
ot any President.
Potency of National Act.
The National Irrigation Act is gauged
pn an honest , intelligent , extensive plan ,
well considered , md will be wi ! ! : . w :
Tied out. By it we , will be able ' . - al
nation to add to all former triumphs of
this Republic new illustrations of our
power to do things , By a system or
judicious forestry almost the entire area
cm be re-forested , in n hundred yeirs. :
The climate could be changed and im-
provod. 'Ye could give fln impetus to
every kind of trade , which , with our
new advantages in < the Orient , would
more than double the volume ot our I
present commercial tramc. In this area
ot intense agricultural and horticultural
development will be created a field for i I
the exercise of every kind of skill and I
t ' every attainment of bandicrn.t. Here
f many or the vexed eocial and economic
questions ! are destined to be settled. In
r gluing to the Nation a race Gf land
: i owners , n race ot men and women will
i be insured who , by interest , instinct and
i choice , will be patdots.
( Innate Heme-OwnlnJr Dlre.
> There is an innate desire in the heart
1 of the An lo-Saxon American to own
1 n IDome. There is an inherent yearnilll
ot the common people , apparent on every
! page of history , to own in Zee ' simple
i some portion ot the eamh. The desire
4 is still as keen as it ever was. Of all
ot our wealth producing Mass , the farmer -
er needs n. home most. He must have
land , he should by all moans own it.
His farm need not be so large fiS some
suppose , but it should belong to the
farmer , not to some one else. This is
not only fielf-e\"ident because of the advantages -
vantages to the farmer , but because of
Us nd\"nnt3gcs to the Nation at large.
n is the cornerstone ot our National
lire ; it lies at" the root c.r all true patriotism -
triotism and all social improvement and
content
Gia man a home upon the soil md
you have made him a patriot who will
defend your institutions at the ballot
box or on the battle field. Open the
r
doors of this great arid west , with the
key ot National Irrigation , and you need
not worry about the future. Let the
, people han easy access to the land and
roost of our other troubles will settle
. themsel.es. The property owner is a
conser.ati\"e man who loves his family
and his count ' . Let the property owners -
ers be as numerous ss possible.
Rope for Hone.t ToU.
The National l Irrigation Ad , passed
by a Republican Congress at Mr. Roose-
.e1t's earnest request and as a result
or his personal efforts , bas already be-
gun its work of measureless good to
American citizenship. It is placing
within the reach ot the landless man
our roanles9 land. It is Ito speak with
a voice that cannot be misunderstood.
By combining the two powerful factors
of irrigation and reclamation , in its up-
building : work ot the Nation , its mis-
eon ! will be well night irresistible. It
will lift from the .pathw : ' ot ! the bread
winner the dead weight ofpoverty and
congestion which has obstructed our national -
tional progress , created internecine struggles -
g1es between capital and labor md 1 .
threatened to shipwreck our future pros : :
perity.
Expansive Arena of Action.
The arid region , extending in the main
from the Missouri River to the Pacific
Ocean and from Meco to Canada , em-
braces nn area , generllly speaking , ot
about 1,500 miles either 'fay. Here is
what II known ar arid America. The
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country abounds In mountains , plains
and \"alleys. It is here that the government -
ment proposes to apply the workings ot
the National Irrigation Act and to reclaim -
claim aU or the arid land which may
be ascertained to be arable and which
is found to be susceptible of reclama-
tion br the amount of water a.ailable.
Government experts estimate that the
present amount of land which may Le
irrigated ; is about one hundred million
acres. This can be reclaimed by apply-
ing the amount of water now available ,
direct. It is also estimated .that after
irrigation has been applied to the soil
for three or four : years , -a less quantity
of water is necessary and hence an additional -
ditional area ot perhaps fifty millions
acres more may possibly be added to the
reclamation firea.
Nature Dill the Neet1lnl.
Nature seems 10 ' have employed every
resource l1t its _ _ command .to make the
_ _ _ _ n _ _ _ _ n _
mountain and plain region the most favored -
ored portion of the carth's surface for
the .lmbita on of man. This section will
one dar : .be the seat of empire ot the
11nited States , and , consequently , the
world. For a distance of more than a
thousand miles there are successive
chains of mountains , in general course
running north and south , and on parallel
lines , with numerous valleys ! occupying
the immediate ground.
Each valley , large or small , has its
stream , carrying , with rapid tall , the
melting snows of the tributary moun-
tains. The grad : ; in general favor the
operation of irrigating canals which
take the water from streams and carry
it at a moderate fall to lines above
the cultivated Innd. As the spring sea-
son advances , the rainfall decreases , the
crops need more and more water , which
.
is furnished automatically by.the gradual
increase 01' the temperature along and
up the mountain side , reaching the light-
est deposit of snow first , and then , during
the later and hotter months , drawing
upon the reserve of the deeper and less
easier melted ice at the higher altitudes.
Fertility of Arid Soil.
Under the rains of centuries much of
the soluble plant foods in eastern soils
have been washed into the sea. Where
no rainfall exists the plant food remains.
The government analyses ot soils show
that the arid lands average three times'
as much potash , six times as much mag-
ncsin and fourteen times as much lime
as the humid lands. Any farmer will
tell you that a limestone country is a
rich country. To replace the food taken
by growing plants : the eastern farmer
resorts to fertilizers and manure. Start-
lug with a rich sot , the irrigationist also
finds fertilizing strength .in the water - , he
uses. ' The manurinl value held in solu-
tion in 313 inches of water - he amount
applied to one acre in a season at the
University or .Arizona-amo\nted to
tI.07. Ten acres under irrigation average -
age better returns than 4O-acre crops , in
the usual way
Land Very Vnlnnble.
In those communities of the west
which have been created by irrigation ,
the average yield of wheat , potatoes and
small fruits far exceeds that of the best
farming district in Iowa or Missouri
or the best part of the Mississippi Val-
ley. Although comparatively remote
frdm the world's markets for products ,
nn acre ot land under water rights in
the very heart of the arid region , will
command a 'higher' price than an acre in
the humid Mississippi YalIey. The farm-
ers have learned that 40 acres , well till-
ed , will yield more profit than 400 acres
armed in , the old , haphazard way. Intensive -
tensi\"e farming and larger profits from
smaller tl.rms are making closely settled
communities , establishing nearby neigh-
hors , schools , churches and : libraries , and
the isolation of old farm life no longer
exists. The farmer makes more money ,
and the deadly monotony of life does
not drive his children from home , or
his wife to the innate asylum.
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Roo.cvclt Immortalized .
Roo.ccclt
The passage ; or the National Irriga-
tion Act is' tantamount to saying that
the west is already redeemed it is now
only a question of time. Perhaps no
law has been passed since the founda-
tion of this government winch has been
or' can be so prolific in great and last-
iUJ results to the United States. Xo
law has ever been enacted which will
arid so nmch stability , wealth , happi-
ness and general prosperity to the people .
pic md the government as the National
Irrigation Law.
Here is a new field for the most hope-
ful speculation. It cnnnot be that any
human mind has . yet been able to esti-
mate the f:1r-renching , the fruitful re-
sult which will follow in the wake of
this National Act. Lincoln is immortal-
i7.ed for his Emancipation Proclam:1tion.
Roosevelt ; will be immortalized because
, he hag done that which will set free
from the thraMom or the congested centers -
ten of population , millions of families
who can and will reel gm1eul to him
and his memory as they sit , ' under their.
own vine and fitree and enjoy nil the
comforts and contentment of their new
and enlarged life of health , happiness
and usefulness.
Make it easy for the average citizen
to .become a land owner and you
'
strengthen tenfold his allegiance and devotion -
'oUon to his country and ralUil ' . Mu-
lions can now get homes in the irrigated
West , under the National Irrigation
Act.
By actual test in southern California
it has been found--counting the urban
and rural populations together-that one
and nc-half acres of irrigated land wiii
support one person , and it is estimated
that this can ultimately be reduced to
a bugle acre for : each individual ,
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A sad blow-burying the first-born In Vermont.
BilLION DOllAR COUNTRY
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Facts Which It Is Desirable to Bear
in Mind.
Evidently Judge Parker has lost track
of the fact that the United States has
become a 'billion-dollar country , while
he has been dreaming away bis' man-
hood on the bench at Albany. Otherwise
it is impossible to account for his acceptance -
eeptD.nce of "the Republican challenge
to a comparison of Democratic and Republican -
publican administrations. "
If there is any : ! issue before the American -
can people upon which the Republicans
arc more ready to appeal to the voters
than another , it is that relating to the
administration of national finances. But
they will not let Judge Parker , or the
hungry ; aggregation ot Democratic edi-
tors to whom he addressed his Rip Van
.
Winkle remarKS , ignore the tact that
the United States of 1004 deals with
billions , where in Cle\"eland's first administration -
ministration its finances could be dis-
cussed in terns of nine figures. Neither
will they permit him to compare net
expenditures under Cleveland with extraordinary
traordinary appropriations under McKinley -
Kinley and Roose.elt.
'Yhen. he. makes his comparisons between -
tween the expenditures of 18S-1888 ; with
those ot 1901-1903 he will not be permitted -
mitted to ignore inch facts ns the increase -
crease in postal expenditures from $50-
942,415 in 1885 to $13884,48 in 1003 ,
and that the excess ot expenditures on
account ot the postal service over receipts -
ceipts last year was only $4,5130,014 , as
compared with $8,381,52.
As nn index of the growth of the Uni-
ted States in every direction that marks
, > dTance : , in national welfare , there can
be no better standard than tIle increased
use of an ever improving and extending
mail ser\"ice.
Neither will Judge Parker nor the edi-
tors to whom he unbosomed a choice
medley or ideas from the wit and wis-
dom of Samuel J. Tilden and Grover
Cleveland , be permitted to "point with
Democratic pride" to the enforced econ-
omics of Cle\"eland's second term 1893-
18913 , 'without being confronted with the
following deficits that waited on Demo-
cratic policy and Democratic adminis-
tration :
DEFICITS DURING CLEVELAXD'S SEC-
OND TERM.
1894 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ OO,803,2
1895 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.805,223 ,
1896 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 35:03 ; :40
With no exceptional expenditures , over
$260,000,000 was added to the public
debt during Cleveland's term.
And when they are discussing the
expense of running the government of
a people that has , increased nearly GO per
cent. in population md more than 100
in wealth since Grover Cleveland
per cent ; ! \ \ -
land was first inaugurated , . Republicans
will not forget to mind American voters -
ters of such billion-dollar facts as these :
MONEY IN CIRCULATIO
188."i , ID03.
$1,302,5PSC15. : S2,3G7.Grelro.
Deposits In National Banks
$1,100,376,517. $3.200y')3OO. ! ) ;
Deposits In Savings Banks.
lOOl7'147' ; ; : $2fl3i,204St5.
Deposits In State Bnnks.
S344,30i,91G. l,814,5iO,163.
Deposits In Loan and Trust Companies.
$ lSSoUi,203. $ S9,3J8,706. ! .
Total Imports.
.55777,527,320. : $1OJ,7'1O,237. :
Total Exports.
$742,1S0,755. ! Sl,420,141GiO.
VALUE OF ARliS.
( Estimated on Census returns for 1880 , 1800
and mOO )
1885. 1003.
$14,000,000,000. $22.000,000,000
( II ) Value of Farm Animals.
$2,456,428.53. : : $3 , } ( ( r ,515,540.
Production of Minerals.
$42iSOSGSO. $1,200,010,365. ;
Freight tons carried one mlle br ; Hallwnys.
'l'ons" Tons.
52.802,070,520. 1 7 . : : ! 21i'8mJ3.
( at 1.04 cents , per ( at .i63 cents per
ton 'mile. ) ton 'mlle. )
Wages In Manufacturing IndusU'Y.
1880. 1)00. : )
0-17,03,7'05. ; ; $2,328.ro1,24. :
Bewildering and incomprehensible ! as
nr.e. these. billions- in many respects , they :
yet present a demonstration of the
growth ot our country so clear anti sim-
p'1e as to be within the c-omprebension , , ot
a child. Only one word need be added
to rectify what might ; be an erroneous
impression from the figures as to the
value ot farm animals ( n ) . During the
second administration of Cleveland this
value shrank from 2,4S3,500GSl in
1893 to $12,9213,084 in 1896 , from
which it has since risen to over $3,100-
000,000.
. It almost seems as if the earth and
the kine refused to bring : ; forth their
natural increase under a Democratic ad-
ministration.
First Voters Rcnd This.
Roosevelt and Fairbanks arc both
young : men , "IS arc a majority of the lead-
ers of the Republican party. U you
believe in progress , if you want to see
our country the richest and its people
the most contented and prosperous on
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the face of the earth , it you believe in. .
throwing ! open the doors of opportunity
to young men , it you do not believe that
smoke.stncks a proper place for
cobwebs and birds' nests , it you would
rather hear the whirr of revolving wheel ; .
than the murmur of discontent , it you
believe happiness instead 'of' unhappiness -
piness , if you believe in courage amI
honesty , it you believe in frankness instead -
stead ot secrecy , if you believe in deeds
rather than promises , it you believe in
reason rather than ignorance , then cast
your first Presidential vote for Reese .
welt and Fairbanks.
NOT USED BY DEMOCRATS
Pnrker's Fol-
Adjectives for Which
lowers Have No Use.
"We know what we mean when we
speak of an honest and stable currency , "
said President Roosevelt in his speed
of acceptance.
In no official utterance of the Democratic -
critic , party , or or its candidates for
President or Vice President during the
last eight years , .h = 1\"o the adjective
"hon or "stable" ever been used to
desigma.e the kind of currency Democracy -
racy demanded , and notwithstanding ; ;
the Democratic phrase makers will use
ndjectives freely and , recklessly ! when-
ever they haany' "naralliount" or
" " advance like in
"tantamount" idea to \ , < :
the platform adopted at St. Louis , which
said e existing Republican adminis-
tration ' -hns been SPASMODIC , ERRATIC -
RA.TIC , SB\SATIOXAL , SPECTAC-
ULAJ : and ARBITRARY. "
Alton B. Parker says the gold stand-
ard is rre\"ocably established ; . , but be
does not 'shy that his own personal be-
lie in it ns affording : an "HO EST
AND STABLE CURRE\CY" has been
irrevocably established , nor , furthermore ,
that he deemed the Democratic party
wrong , when in Congress , in 1S99 ! ) ! ) , it al-
most to a man voted against the estnb-
lishment of the gold standard.
As the gold standard of value was
then "irre\"ocably established ; not by
the Democratic party , but by the Repub-
lican party , the only gold standard that
the Democratic party can honestly claim
to have "lrre.ocably stnblished" ! is the
gold standard of silence on a subject on
which it never did talk except to lower
itself in the estimation of intelligent peo-
pie , and to breed apprehension in business -
ness cirel s.
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PULITZER.S MISTAKE.
He Do. . Not Understand the Attitude
of Pnrker.
Joseph Pulitzer did not attend the
gathering of Democratic editors. which
met and communed recently with the
Democratic candidate for thee presidency ,
but he wrote a letter , of which this was
the concluding paragraph :
It Is because I so strongly desire Judge
Parker's election that I speak so plainly on
this subject. I earnestly beg of you when
you see him tomorrow at Esopus , to urge .
that he accept also the full responslhlllt or
his position ; that he will not permit the
campaign In New York-the pivotal State--
to be mismanaged by the small politicians
who beset him.
"Beset ! " "Beset , " indeed ! Little is
Alton B. Parker "beset" by the small
politicians to whom Pulitzer alludes ,
those who have , for years , been the vassals -
sals of David Bennett Hill or among
the operators for Tamman Alton B.
Parker has been one of them himself.
Foxy political manager for Hill , who
repaid him by an appointment , and who ,
in the present year , has repaid him fur-
her , he is not likely to be "beset" by his
awn associates. )1r. Pulitzer must be
wandering ; in his mind. It is upon those
trout whom -he wishes Mr. Parker to dis-
sociate himself that \Ir. Parker depends !
for whatever vote he may get in : \ew' '
York-Tnmmanyites and the Hill hench-
men.
The Pleased Democracy. .
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The Donkey-Say , but this is fine ;
Chat's the first time I've been able to'
nake these two wings work together in
en sears.-Mina pohis Journal.
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
It Expands Under Republican and Col-
lapses Under Democratic Policies
One of the great arguments of the
free traders has been that with free
trade Wit would have access to the "mar-
kets ot tile world. " Well , the only time
the free traders have had control of
the government iu recent years was in
the second Cleveland administration.
'hey did not put actual free trade into
operation , but they came close enough
tu it to put most of the factories or ,
this country ont of operation. We did : .
not get the markets of the world. They
may have been open to us , but our man
ufacturers were going out of business so :
fast under tile ruinous tariff schedules
the Democrats hall put into effect , that
they could not seek the markets of the
world. Their own home market , the best
one to them was invaded by cheap for-
ein goods , howe\"er.
Then the protective tariff system was
reinstated by the people of this country ,
and immediately the factories began to
turn their wheels agr.in. 'Yithin ten
years we have demonstrated that the
way to get the markets of the world
is to protect our own market against
invasion , build up our industries , and
then brunch out for foreign ! trade.
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We . have nott . had anything : like tree
trade within those ten years , and yet we
are selling millions of dollars' worth of
goods every year in the "markets ot the
world. "
In Congress , last winter , Congressman
Hill , ot Connecticut , told of n recent
visit he had made abroad. He said :
" 1 stood pn the deckof n. Japan se. liner
in the harbor of Vladivostok , Russian
SiJJeriu. In the hold of that ship was
over 700 tons of American agricultural ;
implements t hat had come across the
Pacific ocean from America for the use
lr the peasants of Siberia , and shipped
there under the Dingley tariff bill. That
night nt the hotel I met the represent-
ative ot a locomotive works in Phila-
delphia who told me he had just put ill
150 locomotives for use in the Siberian
railway , shipped there under the Ding-
leJ" tariff law.
u'ext ; day I rode 500 miles up the
banks of the Amur river over American
steel rails shipped there under the
Dingley tariff Inw. Then I got aboard
a steaDIer to go up the .Amur 1,500 miles.
It waS .American' 'built. towed two steel
barges made in Pittsburg , f..ipped : there
under the Dingley tariff law.
"In the village of Gorbitza , Siberia ,
ten thousand miles from here , the Tillage -
lage consisting of n dozen log houses ,
in a little store not over 8 by 10 , we
bought a package ot candy , wrapped in
paper on which was printed the picture
ot William McKinley , to popularize that
candy among the peasants or Siberia
all shipped under the Dingley tariff
Inw. "
That looks as it we had a slice of
the markets of the world , but we never
got anywhere near them under Demo-
cratic tariff ideas.
Vilas Arraigns Hi. Own Pnrty.
Former -Senator Vilas attended the
Wisconsin Democratic State convention
held at Oshkosh , where harmony was
lalking , and made this statement in
closing the debate on the adoption or
the platform :
I came to the Democratic State Convention -
tlon hoping for harmony and Was joyful
In that hope. But I find here that the
Democratic party is nothIl'l knows noth-
ing about the great : principles ! on which It
was founded : and which has made It a
power , and must ! throw itself away on a
mere question or polItical machinery injected -
jectt'd bY' crafty rolltlclnns.
) Ir. Vitas has been a long time in
finding out what a majority of the rot
ers ot the nation learned years ago.
\Yc are not condraincd : to keep _ silent
In any vital question ; we ore divided
on no-rltal que8tl3nJ our policy is cOo-
tinnou" , and hi the same for nil sec-
tiona and 10calltie1l. There i. nothing
experimental about : the government
'Wc ask the people to continua in power ,
for our perfdrmanc : In thc past , our
proved governmental efficiency , Is a
ruarantec ; as to our promises for thc
futnre.-Presldent Roose'l"elt.
O. private reclamation project near
Phoenix , Ariz. , created a taxable prop-
erty ot over ten million dollars in less
than twenty years , and that from land
practically worthless until irrigated.
It was under President Harrison's
Republican administration in IS91 that
the first Federal forest reserve was es-
tablished. This was the beginning or
actud growth in national forestry.
At the average rate of increase in the
past we will have over 160,000,000 people -
tile .in the United States within the
next : 30 years. The west must supply
most ot these with homes.
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GASSAWAY'S FAVORITE POEM , .
( ( Henry Gass3.way Dts' favorite poem
is "Excels1or. : " - urreut not . )
The shades of night were falling fast ,
When up through West Virginia passed
A youth who held within his hand . . .
A. banner with this strange command :
" "
Fork o'rer.
"What seek ye ? " cried the ones he met ;
.
"I seek the bar.l ; 1'11 find it yet- ;
I'll get that check we want , you bet. "
ne sang , as Da\ " sward he set :
"Fork o.er. " . . . r
"Trv not that task " - the maiden cried ; 1
But only fruitlessly she sighed ; , I
For he replied : 'Ye need the stuff , "
And chortled then in accents gruff : : f
" , ' . "
"Fork o'er. I
" 0 , stay , vain youth , " an old man called , !
.At such self-confidence appalled ,
" Dost think his name is Giveaway ? "
The youth sang , trough the dying day ,
"Fork oYer. "
On , on he went , by hm and dale : ,
Until the night at dawn grew pale ,
And then at last , with heart elate , . '
He murmured to the candidate :
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"Fork over. "
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He saw the barre round and fair- /0. ' I
Alas ! he saw no bunghole there ! a ' I r
Th candidate without his spec's'
To read the banner did not vex- . -
"Fork oyer. " i
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"I cannot hear a word , " he sighed. . I r
"You heard when you were notified ! " . . c. i.
The earnest youth at once replied \ i.
And then more \"igorous1y cried . , r
"Fork o.er. " j' ' f M I
s a s ' :
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They found him , frozen stiff and cold , , I Jo
His banner still within his holtl- l '
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I And now they send no strange device , I + " ,
They simply say : 'Ye want the pl'ice- of J -
Fork o\"er. " I'i l- i
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. i
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The People Trust Him Both n8 Man i } .
and Presltlent. tt
\ 'More and more , as the presidential -
cnmJain ; develops , it becomes nppar- 1 :
cut that upon one man the American . r ' ' ; (
people have fixed : their affections : and ! ' d
their admiration and that in him they l
repose a sel.eu ! ' and perfect tru : > t. That .
man is Theodore ose\"clt. i
Four years ago the Republicans of
the rink and file demanded the nomination , }
tion and secured the election ot Theo- ' 0 {
dore Roosevelt for Vice President
Against his own wishes , against the ad- ' :
vice of his nearest friends , Roosevelt : .
accepted the duties forced upon him
by his enthusiastic admirers.
In the dark days which followed the .
assassination of McKinley the beloved ,
the old aphorism that "the voice of the I
people is the voice of God" was called
to mind as the American nation noted I
the gravity , sincerity and thorough com-
petencJ' with which the , an they bad
chosen for Vice Pres ! ; , t took upon
himself the duties ot the Presidency.
As the .ears. have passed admiration
and respect for Roosevelt have grown
until now he is without doubt the most
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popular man in the round world. That' - - - -
his popularity is well founded no one
who knows the shrewd judgment ot '
Americans will question. No man can
occupy the Presidential chair for ono" I
year without being just ' easured and
estimated by the people whose chief executive
'ecutive he is.
From a popular idol , one , in' 'wh so -
personal gifts , manly qualities and
practical work all men delighted , Roose-
yelt has grown , in these three years , to
be the ideal President of the most pow-
erful Republic the world has ever _
known , the held of one of the greatest
nations of the earth I1t the present day.
Theodore Roose\"elt the man-Theo-
dore Roosevelt the President-is a fie ;
are to be proud of. In every word , in '
every act ot his life , there speaks a
clean-minded , courageous-hearted , vig-
orous and incorruptible individuality.
He is the champion or civic probity , ot
national patriotism , or religious free-
dom , a worker for and believer in the
best opportunities for all men , without
regard to class , oecupf1tioa , theological .
' nplnions , politics or race or color.
The young men of the country have
ia the President one to whom they can
loyally look as an example or vigorous
manhood , rejoicing as a strong man pre-
paring to run a race. - The staid citizen
toiling : in the heat of the noonday ot
lite , turns to Roosevelt as hiS'- choice out
of all men to hold the cares and responsibilities -
spon5iibilities ot the public business in .
115 clean , competent ' bands. The old I
Republican , he who has borne the brunt
of the last strenuous generation , the \"et- .
1\ t
of the for human
bran great war free- i
dom and the preservation of the Union ,
beholds in Roosevelt a man worth to I
wear the mantle of Lincoln. \
The man or the day , the man of the h 1
t
hour , is Theodore Roose\"elt. He is Ii I
great President because he is n great
man. It has come home to everyRe - ! i
puhlicm within the first weeks ot the ( !
campaign that the main strength ; or the .
Republican cause this year is its candi- J I
date for President. Firmly is he set-
led in the affections and the respect ot
the American people. All Republicans \
I will vote for him , and thousands upon I
" thousands ot men from other parties w1111 I
"ote for him because he is :1 man ol I
st.ono : fibre , the sort ot man that every
other man naturally loves and trusts. .
There is no weak spot in the char- .
acter of Theodore Roosevelt the man.
There is no "yellow streak. " Outspoken , .
earless. definitely forceful , his ideas
aud opinions are well known to his .
countrymen , and his works are as clean , ,
as straightforward and clear cut as are :
is idea
He will be our next President , and he
will carry with him into the office when
'he is elected the entire confidence of the
; "
American people.
The Wisdom of II Centenarian. I
BEnjamin ! Brown , of Rich\"iew , Illinois , -
has been somewhat neglectful concerning . :
his registration ; as a yoter. Now ' he has . . ; . ; ;
egistered ! , because be wants to vote for
Roose.elt. The only remarkable ; feature
about this case is that )1r" Benjamin
crown is just one hundred years : or a-e. -
tut . niter all , even this feature is not
emarkable because no , American citi-
zen who has acquired the wisdom of a
hundred years could do anything eL ; e
than .ote for Roosevelt in this campaiu. ;
.
To irrigate is to populate. Irrigation
depends for its success upon population.
Coloniation ill the 'Populating ' of hith-
erto unoccupied tracts ot land. t
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