terprising New York wants to do it does, and nothing can stop it. 

 (Applause). 



"If you are tired of these great, big prices, if you are interested 

 in manufacture and cannot produce as cheaply as you did when you 

 got food cheaper and your employees are demanding bigger wages 

 every six months, turn your attention to the soil of this country. 

 These soils can all be made productive and you can do it. You do not 

 need to go outside. There is intelligence enough, knowledge enough 

 here within this State good farmers enough who know how, but 

 are not teaching it. 



"Now, with regard to food, it is a very, very serious question. 

 Possibly 2,000,000 are being added to the population every year. 

 The soils are not producing less every year ; they are producing more, 

 but we are calling upon virgin soil of the Mississippi Valley for fresh 

 crops. The Government is turning money into the reclamation of 

 some of the arid lands of the West, and it will be done, and people 

 will settle on these lands; and they will grow crops. All that will 

 come about soon. 



"We are losing people to Canada, that is true; but we always 

 robbed Canada. While they got 60,000 people from us last year, 

 mostly from the two or three Western States, who took $60,000,000 

 across the border with them, we got over 50,000 from them. So 

 that the balance is not so heavy as you might suppose. And the 

 Canadian has always been an admirable citizen, always desirable. 



"Now, we are doing something to create new industries. Some- 

 thing. We begun by encouraging the making of sugar from beets 

 some years ago, and this year 570,000 tons of sugar was made from 

 the beet; and as soon as the dams are all completed and the water 

 let out on those dry lands of the West under reclamation projects 

 more and more sugar will be made from the beet every year, because 

 it is a ready money crop, and the pioneer always needs ready money. 

 570,000 tons is a great deal of sugar; figure up what the United 

 States needs and what is made under the flag, and you will find we 

 are producing one-half of the sugar consumed in the United States. 

 Just as sure as it is producing one-half it will be possible to produce 

 the other half and save all that money. 



"Now, sugar takes nothing from the soil. The soil to-day is my 

 subject. Atmosphere makes sugar, and there is plenty of fresh air 

 in the United States yet to make all the sugar we need. It takes 

 nothing from the soil; why not make it here. We have a sweet 



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