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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



"Two important problems are before us, viz. : 'The Unemployed' 

 and 'Our Arid Lands.' A policy that would furnish to the idle remun- 

 erative employment, and fruitfulnesstoour desert places, would prove 

 a blessing to humanity and a boon to our country. A policy that 

 would relieve the congested cities and supply the crowded inmates 

 with homes that would develop manhood and womanhood, furnishing 

 employment, teaching habits of industry and frugality, would be 

 building for our nation's future on the solid rock. The country is the 

 nation's hope. Rural life is conducive to purity of character. The 



GOV. JAMES G. MOUNT, of Indiana. 



exaltation of agriculture, the application of science to farming, the 

 encouragement of migration to the country instead of to the city, the 

 transforming of waste places into smiling plenty, will do more for 

 the nation's prosperity, development and happiness than any sugges- 

 tions offered to the public. I do not know that the people are ready 

 to co-operate to this end, but I do believe true wisdom invites to such 



methods." 



There is a platform for patriotism to stand upon, to labor for the 

 grandest cause which is before the American people to-day; and one 



