Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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rected area that will add an addi-tional income of from $80,000,000 to$100,000,000 to the American farmers*wealth with a large work already undercontemplation Ten years more willsee this work done. Twenty years morewill see the work paid for from the soilcreated with the money in the UnitedStates treasury, and with fifty thousandhappy homes where the lizard and rattle-snake find precarious livelihood to-day. Our public-land question is already aserious one. There is little chance forfurther preemption outside of the newlymade and to be made irrigated landswhich will be taken up before ready forthe plow. There is no chance of thepublic lands supplying this generationof the farmers children; even those whodo not go to town, to say nothing of thesolving of any problems of our presentimmigration or future growth. When the Homestead Act was passedin 1862, the great West was a vast andempty domain of nearly two billions of Digitized by Google Uncle Sams Romance with Science and the Soil. 37
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