THE CALL OF THE LAND 



tion was new, men got together at the very 

 earliest moment and established rules gov- 

 erning their several communities. Did you 

 ever think of the unrequited labor men and 

 women had to perform in this civil pioneer- 

 ship, that public order might prevail and 

 men's life together be regular? 



We are now in the third great form of 

 pioneership, the economic. The govern- 

 ment goes on; there is no longer any hitch 

 in it. A man is fairly sure of justice, life 

 and limb. He is secured and protected 

 wherever he goes. But this third phase of 

 pioneership we have only begun. For the 

 future prosperity of our states this form has 

 to be gone through like the others. 



Parts of the states need irrigation, to be 

 had by storing in spring the surplus waters 

 of the rivers until needed in the drouth of 

 summer. More square miles might thus be 

 provided with moisture than the majority 

 of us suppose. There was probably a time 

 when Nebraska had its fair share of trees. 

 Even the western part of the state was once 

 well covered with forests. It was bare when 



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