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Prosperity and Patriotism Fostered by
Contact with Soil Republican
Party Leads the Way.
Even the Democrats are beginning to
realize something of the possibilities for
goed which are to come to the whole
TJkihed States through the national irri
gation act passed by a Republican Con
gress, and signed by President Roosevelt
Jicie 7 1002. The Democrats are now
chiming that they "did it" Still, the
facts remain that President Roosevelt,
by the force of his own identity, put the
measure through Congress and made it
the law of the laud with his official sig
nature as President.
It is not a dream, but a fact, that the
present population of the United States
can be duplicated on the arid public do
main in the West. This can be done
without making new competitors for
those already engaged in agricultural
pursuits in the Bast and in the South.
On the other hand, this wonderful act
of nlnntinsr a now nation in what is now
alt but an unbroken desert will confer
enormous benehts on tnose secuuua
which are already covered with farms,
factories and towns.
Bic Internal Problems.
In our great West, a population of
30.000,000 might live In prosperous con
tentment. There is everything to inspire
and reward their industry the charm of
claiate and of scenery, the fertility of
soil, the unimaginable wealth of water,
fopest and mine, and. across the Pacific,
now worlds to conquer. Our biggest in
ternal question to-day is the preparation
ond colonization of this productive area.
This nation must keep on with its his
toric work of civilization. It must con
tinue that marvelous reciprocal process
by which it has so rapidly risen to im
measurable heights of economic power
the making of new communities to feed
the old, the enlargement of old communi
ties to feed the new. The longest step
yet taken to this endis adoption of the
plan of national irrigation chiefly
through the instrumentality of President
Roosevelt. It is a new policy, only at
present in its experimental stage, but
those who know most about It believe it
is a measure big with national fate.
Momentous New Era.
We are entering upon a new and mo
mentous era that calls for the highest
-trorrfities of constructive statesmanship.
The movement must be broadly founded
and firmly and intelligently managed. We
are planning, not for ourselves but for
future generations, for we are the fore
lathers of a mighty future in a mighty
land. If we are equal to our duty and
ui.r opportunities, we shall make homes
far a hundred million of the freest men
wlao ever walked the earth.
We are living in an age of mighty
.thievement. Engineering works which
te .ast generation would have thought
an impossibility will be the completed
task of this generation. The New York
.noway, the great tunnel of the Penn
sylvania railroad, the Isthmian canal and
.he Salt River reservoir in Arizona and
other mammoth irrigation projects will
. son stand aa completed monuments to
'he constructive genius of our people and
.lis age. The future is potent with still
grander undertakings which will, in a
few brief years, also stand as accom
plished facts. Egypt was for centuries
the granary of the world. That land of
mystery and romance was the cradle of
enr civilization. For countless ages the
NHe has risen annually, to fertilize the
land which has yielded, from year to
rear, the sustenance of teeming millions.
Greatest Question of the Ajre.
The question of irrigation which now
confronts the people of the United States
lq one of the most important of .he age.
It is of more Importance than the Isth
mian canal or a deep waterway to the
en. It involves the solution of the for
est and flood problem. It embraces the
fnture internal development of the Unit
ed States. It will require years of work
to perfect the system of national irriga
tion, but it will be the greatest benefit
ever conferred on the western people.
Men may be cruel and unfair, but na
ture is generous and utterly impartial.
The oarta, the 6un and the waters are
as kind to the poor as to the rich. The
roses do not stop to look up a man's
financial standing before consenting to
bloom for him. They grow wherever
planted. They cover the poor man's cot
tage as gladly as they do the rich man's
villa.
Husbandry Makes Patriots.
Nations may spring into being, gener
ated by the force of ideas aloue, but
the rigorous manhood, the mature growth
of a State can only be nurtured and
built up upon the abundant and mani
fold productions of the earth. The very
existence and advance of civilization are
firmly grounded on material resources.
Nations become great and independent
as they develop a genius for grasping the
forces and materials of nature within
their reach and converting them into a
steady flowing stream of wealth and com
fort. To hold a people in industrious, pro
ductive, contented habits, habits of vir
tue and of patriotism, it is needful to
give them an interest in the cultivation
f land. This fact is seen along the
ihores of historic time. Wherever gov
irnment has made laws which have giv
m the people of the land its occupancy
in fair terms, then content and plenty
save been on every hand. Wherever it
Eas been hard for the masses to obtain
he use of the land, then discontent and
iilllculties here been rampant on every
Baud, and frequently national rain has
Deen the result. The noblest use to which
ny man or people can put history is to
take it either as warning or wise in
duction. In the United States we have
to quality; quantity and Tarioty uoh sup
plies and resources as no one govern
ment in the world ever had before.
Danger in Congested Cities.
It is not without serious meaning that
so many of our peoplo aro massing in
cities, that in cities rents are going high
er, and hence people are living in fewer
rooms or smaller ones, and that the at
tendant and consequent evils, moral, phy
sical, industrial, intellectual and national,
are seen on every hand. We are to-day
passing through a period of prosperity in
the United States without parallel in
the world's history. Judging from the
history of all nations, this may not con
tinue indefinitely. Our leaders must know
that they have to do, not with supine
men who have been trained to submis
sive obedience a people who stand ready
to shut their eyes, open their mouths and
take whatever is given and be contented
therewith. Adversity will bring commo
tion in our cities as "cold engenders
hail."
Remedy in Irricated Farms.
In contemplating the dangers of the
future that may come to this republic,
the wise citizen should reach out and
seize whatever remedy may be within
his reach and apply it so that all the
years to come may be free from fear and
disturbing forces such as are always at
work in every nation. That remedy ap
pears to be, to put the balance of our
population back on the land and keep it
there. There seems to be no other rem
edy. The man who has his home upon
mother earth, the man who draws his
living straight from nature's granary, the
man who is free from all the uncertain
ties of a wage earner's employment, the
man who gathers his wife and children
around his own hearthstone and gets his
living by his own labor from his own
land, is the anchorage of this country. It
behooves our statesmen to rise to the
occasion and imbue the American people
with a patriotic determination to turn
the balance of our population back to
the land and plant it there with homes
that no social upheaval can ever disturb.
This will safeguard this nation for all
years to come.
All Can Have Homes.
The nation has land for every man
who will make his home upon it in good
faith who will break the sod, plant
crops, build a house and settle down to
support his family from the soil, but the
nation has no land at least, it ought to
have none for the man who merely
seeks to forestall the actual settler and
sell out to him at a profit, or become a
landlord, collecting income from his ten
ant Land monopoly robs men of a large
portion of the products of their labor. It
nullifies the spirit of constitutional guar
antees which seeks to give assurance of
political freedom. No man is free in
the true sense of the term who is be
holden to another for the means of his
existence, and land monopoly makes
rebels instead of patriots. In the case of
Ireland it drove more than half the popu
lation away from its natiTO soil. It filled
their hearts with bitterness and even
6ent some of her children into the ranks
of England's enemies in the hour of her
great trouble.
Will Help the East.
The subjugation and settlement of the
great empire of public lands means that
every factory wheel in the United States
must whirl faster, that every banking
house must handlt more money, and that
every railroad must transport more pas
sengers and freight This, in turn, means
a largo and busior population in every
eastern and southern town, and that of
course will quicken and tnlarge the de
mand for all the products of the Mil in
the older sections of the country. In the
meantime that which is grown from the
soil, to be conquered by irrigation in the
West, will go almost oxclusively to tha
feeding of new homo markots to be erect
ed within the arid region itself and to
the satisfying of unlimited demands in
the Orient and in tho frozen north.
Limitless Oriental Trade.
Visible increase in American tonnage
in trade between the Asiatic East and
the Pacific coast is beyond the concep
tion of the ordinary citizen. This trans
portation issue concerns the merchant,
the manufacturer and the mechanic of
the Atlantic States, the Middle States
and the far West as well as the Pacific
coast. These merchants, manufacturers
and mechanics have the same interest in
the Asiatic trade that thoy have in the
irrigation development of our arid and
semi-arid land. The larger that trade,
the greater the demand for the industrial
products of the vast region east of the
Rocky mountains, the greater the effi
ciency of trans-Pacific transportations,
the greater our trade with Asia.
In a way the merchants, manufactur
ers and mechanics east of the Rocky
mountains hare more at stake thai: have
the Pacific coast States. Increased trade
with Asia, especially an increased de
mand for American food stuffs, means in
creased agricultural, commercial and In
dustrial activity on the Pacific coast a
larger population on the Pacific, and
finally, the most important of all, a
larger home market for what the people
of the Pacific coast call the American
East
Improved Transportation.
The transportation issue is settling
itself. The trans-continental railway
companies face a globe circling competi
tion Aat forces them to raise the effl
ciency of their systems, west of Chi
cago. The steam Ikes of the Pacific
ocean are meeting the transportation de
mands, thus the American commerce
with the Asiatic Best is insured by that
UNCLE SAM "I'm sorry, bat I can't ase anything with a string tied to It."
great promoter of trade known as swift
and regular transportation.
The complement of this transportation
is a steady and reliable flow of freight.
Here irrigation comes into play. Irri
gation insures regular crops and there
fore a fixed volume of freight; even as
a reliable transportation insures regular
trade. These phases of national life are
part and parcel of the evolutionary pro
cess that has made the United States the
trade leader of the world. The activi
ties of the country are rising to the new
economic standard. He who fails to see
this should seek a new perspective.
To the ordinary man the term Asiatic
trade lacks special significance. He
knows it relates to trade with Asia,
and that we are constantly exporting to
and importing from Asia. He does not
realize that all the leading countries of
the earth are competing for the trade of
several hundred million Asiatics, and that
this trade is really the greatest commer
cial prize of the day. He does not realize
that this trade may be the making of his
own trade, calling or business.
Your Personal Interest.
Farmers, ranchers, miners, lumbermen,
merchants, laborers of the West, do not
vote -against your own interests, that of
your family; and yours and their future.
Vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. They
have brought you glad tidings in the na
tional irrigation act. Its workings have
already begun. Under its operation there
will be a tendency to balance interests
and thus help in a powerful way to keep
the government steady. It will settle the
beef question, every acre irrigated would
produce more than thirty times as much
as is now produced on any of our wild
arid lands. It will produce new towns
of moderate size, where all the vocations
of trade, of learning, literature nd re
ligion will flourish. It will change the
face of the earth. It will change the
face of the sky. It will modify the at
mosphere. It will change the climate.
It will give life, health, joy and pros
perity to the people.
"Work for Republican Party.
When wo come to contemplate the
whole field of natural western re
sources, available for food, for industry
and for commerce, when we attempt to
grasp in one act of thought the length
and breadth and depth of the riches with
which Providence has loaded this sec
tion; when we try to realize how every
possible want, every material aspiration
of man can be bountifully provided for;
when we consider how measureless are
the values which will spring into being
at the touch of modern industry, and
how these Talues, when once created,
arc solid and real and become incorpo
rated into the enduring structure of hu
man society, we may begin to es
timate properly the measure of re
sponsibility which rests upon this na
tion and its chosen rulers. This is not
merely to preserve unharmed the price
less boom of civil liberty which leaves
the individual citizen free to do his share
in work of development, but to adopt
such measures as will prevent the waste
of natural resources, clear the way of
progress and promote the triumph of civ
iKzation. The record of the Republican
party shows it to be a party of progress.
A Hlacn of Prosperity.
There is no better criterion of general
prosperity than the postal business.
When times axe good the postal revenue
increases, and rice versa. The report of
tho Postmaster General shows that for
the year ending July 1, 1S95, the receipts
from postal revenue were $76,171,000.
For the year ending July 1, 1902, they
were $11O,95S,220, an increase of 57 per
cent during seven years of continuous
Republican rule. During the year ending
July 1, 1S95, the receipts from the money
order business were $812,038; for the
year ending July 1, 1902, they were $1,
8S0,S17, an increase of 133 per cent dur
ing serea years of Republican prosperity.
Tie Postmaster General in his annual
report for 1S02 said: "Tie Increase in
the postal revenue attests the wonder
ful prosperity of the people and the ac
tivity of business interest threagfaout
the country." It would not have been
proper for the Postmaster General in an
official report to attribute this wonder
ful prosperity in 1902 to the operation of
the Dingley tariff law and other Repub
lican measures, but such was the fact.
WHAT IS TO BE WILL BE
Growth of the Asiatic Demand for
Products of the United States.
The Asiactic nations have lived upon
rice stating things in a general way
and the Teutonic races have for some
generations lived upon flour. It has
become standard within the last year or
two, that at least one of the Asiactic
nations has come to live upon flour.
Those desperate little fighters, the Jap
anese, have taken to hard tack, as did
our own American fighters during the
Civil War, as a part of their subsistence,
and the same regard as to whatever is
made from our wheat has already ex
tended, in a measure, to the more vast
Asiatic empire of China. That clever
correspondent, William E. Curtis, speak
ing of tho extent to which our flour is
already used by Japan, says:
While the lmnorts of flour within the
last year or so have been much greater
than eTer before on account of the prepa
rations for war, nevertheless there Is rea
son to expect a continued expansion of the
market. Japanese families generally are
beginning to use wheat flour for various
purposes. Nearly every household Is now
using It to make the little cakes and sweet
meats which they use with their tea sev
eral times a day In large quantities. A
still larger amount of a cheaper quality is
used for paste by the manufacturers of
screens, umbrellas, fans and other articles
of that klud. Since the war began hard
bread has been introduced Into the army as
an alternate ration with rice. The soldiers
relish the varlefy; hard-tack Is easy to
handle and carry, the nutritive value of a
pound of flour Is equal to that of a pound
of rice, and It costs less. The Japanese
export their best rlco to France. England
and China, where it brings big prices, being
of the very highest grade. They Import
vast quantities of cheaper rice for the con
sumption of the coolies and the laboring
class from Cores, Burmoh, China, Singa
pore and other parts of the East Indies.
It Is entirely practicable to substitute
cheap brands of flour for this low-grade
rlee, and It will be easy to do so when
the soldiers come home with their appe
tites for hard-tack and wheat bread.
Could there be, under any circum
stances or conditions, expressed a vaster
idea of the enormous trade relations that
must henceforth exist between America
and the Asiatic countries! America
produces bread. The Asiatics have learn
ed to eat bread with the rest of the
world. We are going to supply them
with it We have to ship it across the
Pacific Ocean over the commercial path
way which we have made and beneath
which underlies our cable system. There
is nothing in the world that can stop
the Asiatic demand for the wheat prod
ucts of the United States, and the wheat
products of tho United States hare made
this country, to a great extent the tre
mendous power it is.
They talk about "Imperialism!" There
is no "Imperialism!" This continent is
producing what the rest of the world
needs, and the inhabitants of this con
tinent, under the rule of Republican ad
ministration, associated with other intel
ligent governments on either side, pro
pose to supply Asia with these prod
ucts that Asia needs. The fact that
the United States has completed its
pathway across the vast ocean and has
its intermediate stations, and its posses
sions close to the Asiatic coasts, is but
an incident of events which are part
of the industrial history of the world.
Does anyone imagine that the present
majority of the American people are go
ing to neglect their ostensible duty, not
merely to themselves but to another por
tion 'of the human race? They will
hardly do it
This is but talking of the produeis of
the wheat fields that Asia bow demands.
It has nothing to do with iron and steel
and the thousand and one other prod
ucts of all our fields and all our facto
ries which they will otherwise demand.
This is but referring to the simple af
fair of one single product tat ft is
eneugh to afford an illustration.
And yet tiiey talk aveat "Imperial
ism!" There is no "Imperialism." We
are but brothers who are going to as
sist in feeding the rest of our brothers
of the world; to give them the benefits of
it all and to reap ourselves the benefits
of it all. To submit to anything else
would be silly. It is but a problem of
common sense.
Export of Manufactures.
Figures recently issued by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor at Wash
ington show thnt during the month of
July last our exports of manufactures
amounted to ?40,000,000, against $31,
000,000 of agricultural products. During
June the exports of manufactures were
nearly 42,000,000, against $37,500,000
of agricultural products. This is the first
time in the history of the country that
the exports of manufactures have ex
ceeded those of the farm. This does not
mean that the exports of farm products
are falling off, but that those of manu
factures have greatly increased. This is
clue to a protective tariff which, while It
benefits American manufactures, also in
creases the home demand for American
farm products.
Democracy's Bad Record.
When the veterans of the Civil War
were with Gen. Grant before Richmond
or with Sherman marching to the sea, a
Democratic national convention declared
the war a failure and demanded a dis
honorable peace. "When the business
men, the wage-earners and honest msn
of nil classes were battling for sound-
money and the gold standard the Demo
cratic party, as an organization, was
clamoring for free silver at 16 to 1.
When the Republican party was contend
ing for protection to American manufac
turers and workmen, its pponents were
advocating a pob'cy destructive to both.
What good thing has the Democratic
party ever done, anyhow?
Not the Only Important Question.
Admitting that the gold standard is "ir
revocably fixed," us Judge Parker says,
though he did not help fix it, that is only
one of many important financial ques
tions that may come up In relation to
financial matters. The question of the
preservation and extension of our sys
tem of banking and currency; the refund
ing of our national debt as it may, from
time to time, become due, and many oth
er questions of Iifio importance may
arise. To place the settlement of these
questions in unfriendly hands might re
sult in such a disturbance of business as
would shock the whole country.
Personal Abnse Will Not Win.
The Democratic party has been so
long in the opposition and its every day
work has so long been criticism, that It
forgets that bo battle was ever won
by swearing at tho enemy. Abuse of
Mr. Roosevelt will make Tote3 for him.
He Is a very popular man. Personal
criticism will not draw away from him
any man who admires him, bet it will
stir his admirers to the more earnest sup
port ef him.
According to the Banker's Monthly for
August there are 7,303,228 individual
depositors in the savings banks of the
United States, and it is safe to say that
7,305,000 will Tote for the Republican
ticket, at least all who are legal voters
will
"No more important question can en
srasre enr attention, and nana should
receive more earnest and thonehtfal
consideration, thanone which seeks te
enard and preserve tho hi?h standard
of oar population and citizenship."
Ssnstcr Fairbanks la the Senate, January 11, 1838.
The passage of the National Irrigation
Act marked a new ra fop t-hm W-
Its effect upon actual settlement may not
uniainy do comparer to that f the
Homestead law, signed by President
Lincoln in 1SS2.
Under the Wilson low tariff exports in
creased $94,000,000; is three years un
der the Dmgley tariff tiey increased
$155,000,060.
house to stay,
To he)? h'na fix bis feaces an to teX him
what to say;
David sajs: "Be aeorfal, now yoa are a
candidate,
Or else they'll git the best of yon that's
jest aa sure as fate;
Now don't send an telegrams, Croatia
further efoubt,
Or Roosevelt 'U beat you,
cf you
don't watch
oual
"Wnnst they was a eandsdste at thought'
he'd have a chance
If he'd tell the people Yfhat he knew
about finance;
Went abont th' country with a hollo? an
a whoop
When the votes was counted ha was un
derneath the eonp.
Stick to what I tell yen, or you'll amble
up the spout,
Fer Roosevelt H beat yon,
ef you
don't watch
out I
"Wanst I wore a fenther plume: 1 Aa
a Democrat.'
Till a cyclone from ih' west Jest blew
away my hat
When they ast me what I was, I an
swered cool an' cn'm,
Whh another feather plume which read:
'I Guess I Am.'
Bet, yonr life that David knows jest
what he is about
An' Roosevelt 11 beat yon,
ef you
den't watch
onH
"Best be purty keerfnl how yon talk
about th' trusts
If you want to roast one, better wait
nntil it busts.
Aa' th money question don't have very
much to say
As to plutycrats remember Henry G-as-
saway!
Stick right to a whisper, don't you never
dare to shout,
Or iiosevelt 'II beat you,
ef yon
don't watch
out!
"Have your picture taken out be keerfaJ
what you wear
Put on all th' overalls an' look like
'eeunty fair;'
Take your little plunge into the Hudson
every day,
Keep below the water when you've any
thing to say.
Mind yotir Uncle David his suggestion
never flout
For Roosevelt 'II beat yon,
DF YOU
DONT WATCH
OUT!"
TRIBULATIONS OF A GREAT
GRANDFATHER.
(Over Teddy's Letter.)
Elklns. TV. Ye.. Sept. 15, 1904.
Denr Sonny I've Just finished reodjn
Teddy's letter and haven't had so muir
fen since I was toss'd in a blanket tho
year that grand old rough rider, Andy Jac.fc
son, was elected for a second term. It
tosses ns up so high that It seems as II
we'd never come down.
I never did see a paper so full of in
terrogation points as that letter, and every
derned one of them like a jolt on the solar
plexus that Stere Is so fond of tancls'
about.
"Nunky," said Steve, as I hobbled Into
breakfast this mornln', the first time since
I posed as Metkuselaa plckin' the shoo
strings out of his eyes, "Knnky," says h,
"why does Teddy's letter remind you of a
corduroy road?"
"Becaase it's so full of bumps," says I,
guessln' his conundrum the first crack.
There's nothln' like a few sharp Jolts oa
the spine to sharpen am old man s Intel
lectuals. No wonder ysn thought it a mile lof.
A short piece ef road flke that goes a long
way when year wagon laan't any springs
or straw on the bottom, an' your oM HmZ
lack fat like mine.
I tell you, Alton, that s the matter vjlta
ns. The Democratic band wagon bafn't
got any springs nor straw for cushions, and
I'm gettln all fired tired ferulshln' all the
axle grease.
This letter of Teddy's doesn't run oa
rubber tires. He may aeaa well, but what
risht has he pryln' Into our convletiofcs?
What business is it of his if we are like
the man stealln' a ride oh the end cf a
train who never sees anything until It's
passed? If he was as eld as I am, ae'd
bless his stars if he eoxld see anything,
behind or before.
This havin' foresight Is all a Renftncaa
gift. "We Democrats haven't got It. We'rs
always suckln' the hiaa teat.
"We never saw anything in infant fndns
tries till the Repnbllcifas adapted tfto
feundlln' and brought it t oa Prbtectloa
milk.
We never saw that the TTaion Bad to be
preserved, if there were w e enobga
office to go rounfi. siul tie Republicans
saved it and filled the ffeees for nigh onto
forty years.
Vt never saw that two things could not
occupy the itne place at the same time
until the Republicans afiopted the gold
standard and left cs molding the bag be
tweQt blsaetalllsa ac free and unlimited
sTfver.
I tea you, we'ro so faculty for fore
sight and. as far as I can see, mighty
little for hind-sight, eltfcez. Ko wonder the
donkey 1b onr party emblem. Do yon
know, I've been lokfn in mother's looSln'
glass lately, and I swan, if my chin whis
kers ain't grown like a gsat's and my ears
are gettin' so lonr they droop. Steve says
It's enly an optical hallucination, superfa
dneed by too much Breeding over Repob
Ilcan cartoocs.
But. say, Altec oa the quiet have yoa
consulted yonr glass slnee yea made that
speech to Charlie Knspp ana the otter
Charlie horses?
Donkeys hare this advantage over men:
they can cet their ears to the ground with
out crawlln' en their Bellies.
Waltra to eeo you put Teddy on the grid
Iron, yonr eld undo.
HENRY GASSOWAY.
Party Records.
In every national campaign for forty
years past tho Republican party has
stood upon its record of things done, of
laws enacted, ef policies established un
der which the country has progressed
and prospered. The record of the Dem
ocratic party made In two administra
tions was so full cf disaster, ef commer
cial shipwreck, of industrial paralysis
and business failures that its chief busi
ness in recent years has been to get at
far away from its record as possible.
Parker "Weald So Unsafe.
Without questioning -the sincerity ef
Jedge Parker's expressions oa the
money question he was, by his own etate
toents, more devoted to his party, la
1S0O, than he was te als sincere cea
Tictioaa ef right. That keing the case,
we bare a rfjfat to assaaae that he might,
at aa extreme taoiaeat, again "surrender
his priaelsies for tie sake ef his ?arty.
Suck a Ki&a cannot be held ap aa a safe
candidate fer tke highest 9tifi!ta is tka
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