1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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ily had had to go alone, if Bradford's 

 family had had to go alone, they would 

 not have gone. So Winthrop led his 

 colony to Massachusetts Bay; so Bal- 

 timore sent his colony to Maryland. 

 Practically it was John Smith and 

 Lord Delaware who collected the peo- 

 ple who went to Virginia together. 

 When our Civil War broke out or 

 when the Spanish War broke out, 

 young leaders of the people stepped 

 to the front at once to say : "I will 

 form a regiment." Practically they 

 said : "Rally round my white plume." 

 A man opened an office at 999 Bar- 

 rack street ; he issued his own bills, he 



not going to hire them, I am simply go- 

 ing to unite them while going to take 

 possession of the land. We will re- 

 plenish the earth and subdue it." Such 

 a man, if he were a real leader of the 

 people, would find tbat in the heart of 

 everybody whose ancestors have lived 

 here for four generations there lingers 

 what Mr. Hoar calls the "thirst for the 

 horizon." 



I am saying all this here, because 

 just now there is a new chance open- 

 ing before the Miltiades or Themisto- 

 cles or Alcibiades, the Brewster or 

 Baltimore of to-day. Thanks to the 

 uepartment of Agriculture and the 



A View of a Western Valley. 



spoke at public meetings and he made 

 his friends into recruits, bright in their 

 new uniforms ; and they enlisted other 

 recruits, and before a fortnight had 

 passed he wrote to the Governor that 

 he had a thousand men who were 

 ready to go to the war. 



In days when people tell us tbat la- 

 bor cannot get paid and lias no chance, 

 I always wonder why some American 

 Miltiades does not hang out bis ban- 

 ner and say: "I can give every man a 

 chance for an estate as large as that on 

 which is the home palace of an English 

 nobleman. T can give two hundred 

 families such chances as that. I am 



Department of the Interior, and to 

 such men as Senator Newlands and 

 Colonel Walcott and Mr. Mead, and to 

 William Smythe and to Mr. Maxwell, 

 and to two or three thousand other 

 men of the first ability in Washington 

 or in the new West, all serving the 

 good God in different ways, one mil- 

 lion square miles, much of it of the 

 most fertile land in the world, will be 

 open to immigration within the next 

 five years. 



They told us a few years ago that 

 Oklahoma was the last region of un- 

 claimed land which the Government 

 had td offer to the adventurer. And 



