tkm from Japan bat not yt K"en
tear&td, and ba Prldut Roose
velt fids to see iUtuJ demands ouij
nor Utile slilpt. as the lesson of the
treat sea fig lit which hat just Un
fought, he uufortuuatelv diverts the
minds of the people of this country
from fact of supreme and owhad
owlcx Imports nc. wbicn should tx
burood into the public uiiud as ly a
atrake of lightning from every victory
won by the Japan-.
That lesson Is tht profoundly Im
portant fact that the Japanese man.
the unit of her national strength. Is
the product of a mode of life and an
enTlranment which combines the
physical strength which conies only
from the rural life from living next
to nature with the uicutal activity
and keenness which come from con
stant contact with his fellowiueo the
community life.
A Nation of Gardeners.
The Japanese are not a nation of
farmers, as we understand the word.
They tre a nation of gurdoucrs
There Is neither Isolation nor conges
tion in their life. They dwell, the
great majority of them, not la great
cities, but n closely settle! rural com
munities. The ranch and the tene
ment are alike foreign to the life of
the Japanese.
The great principle that mustcontrol
our own national development honcv
forth ts that the land shall be subdi
vided Into the smallest tracts from
which one man's labor will sustalu a
family In comfort, and that every
child, boy or girl, in the public school's
should be so trained in tho school
that It will know how to till such a
tract of land for a livelihood.
In other words, let us reproduce In
this country the conditions so wed
described In an article from the Book
lovers Mairaslne for Aujnist, 1004.
from which we quote the following:
"While Japan la cannonadinitswar
to rank with Curlstiau powers as a
A S K A a Y-S j
M fi J" ! rtsWST f scmssvOn
' I j f
aubtinA
The black fcquart la th abore map represents
firstui8i fighting nation. It Is not nz
lecting Its fields of rice, genge. millet
and mujl. Its groves of mulberry aud
bamboo, its priceless plots of tea and
mitsumata shrubs, and its multi-million
gardens of berries, vegetables,
fruits and flowers. The thousands of
patriots that have marched to the
front have not thlnn?d the ranks of
the mightier hosts tilling the soil.
Thirty million farmers are gathering
ample harvests in the diminutive fields
of Japan.
Husbandry Dignified.
"For twenty-five centurjes the Sun
rise sovereigns have dignified hus
bandry as the most Important and
most honorable industrial calling in
the empire, and now more than sixty
oer cent of the Mikado's subjects till
with incomparable skill tbe limited
toll of bis islands.
"The same diligent genius that ena
bles a landscape gardener in Japan to
compass within a few square yards of
land a forest, a bridge-spanned tstream,
a water-fall and luke, a chain of ter
raced hills, gardens and chrysanthe
mums, hyacinths, peonies and pinks, a
beetling crag crowned with a dwarfed
conifer, and through all the dainty
nark meandering paths, with here a
shrine and there a dainty summer
house, has made it possible for the far
mers of the empire to build up on less
than nineteen thousand square miles
of arable land the most remarkable
agricultural nation the world has
known. If nil the tillable acres of
Japan were merged into one field, a
man In an automobile, traveling at the
rate of fifty miles an hour, could skirt
tbe entire perimeter of nnMe Japan
in eleven hours. Upon this narrow
freehold Japan has reared a nation of
Imperial power, which Is determined
to enjoy commercial preeminence over
all the world of wealth and opportu
nity from Siberia to Slam and already,
by tbe force of arms, is driving from
the shores of Asia the greatest mon
archy of Europe.
- Roots In the Soil.
The secret of the success of the lit
tle Daybreak Kingdom has been a
mystery to many students of nations.
Pntrtntldm Anen not e-rnlnln tho rlddlo
of It strength, neither can commerce,
nor military equipment, nor manu
facturing KkUl. Western us I Ions will
fad fuUjr to grasp the kvnt of Ue
dynamic intciisitx of Japan tmlay, and
will dangvrou.sly underestimate the
(oi iinUuttio kmiiUU'! di tue urvatvr
Japiiu the ial Mppn of tomorrow,
uniil they lgln to study seriously the
agricultural triumphs of that vtnplre.
rr Japan, more scleutitlcaUy than
any other nation, past or present, has
perfected the art of sending the roots
of Its clviUsatiou vnUurlugiy luto the
soil.
"Progressive experts of high author
Ity throughout t..e OcvUlcut now ad
mit that in all the annals of agri
culture there is nothing that ever ap
proached the st-lentitlc skill of Sunrise
husbandry, ruticut dlllgvuce, with
knowledge of tbe chemistry of soil and
the physiology of plants, have yielded
results that hare astounded the most
advanced agriculturists lu Western
uatioua."
The Safe Foundation.
The creation of the conditions above
described under which the people of a
nation are rooted to the soil lu home
of their own on the land. Is uot onlv
PhhI statesmanship and the highest
patriotism, but it is the only safe foun
dation for an euduring uational
structure.
To Ignore and neglect this founda
tion while we build battleships, equip
armies and annex Islands and dig
Isthmian canals. Is as fatal a mistake
ns It would K to build a twenty-story
skyscraper In Chicago without any
foundation but the mud of like
Michigan.
We need not muster out our armies,
nor dismantle our battleship nor
evacuate the Philippines, nor stop
work ou the Isthmian Canal, but the
fact remains, as clear ns t!.e sun from
an unclouded sky at noonday, that the
attention of our people ns a nation l-s
riveted on o;r naval and military af
fairs ut:d seh mes of foreign exploit;!-
THE MIDDLE WEST.
the total area of cultivated Und la Japan, supporting thirty million of sgrlcultortl psopie.
tion, to the disregard and neglect ofj
the vastly more Important problem of
building men at home, and creating a
citizenship which will be an enduring
national foundation forever, and en
larging our home markets, which will
be unaffected by any foreign complica
tions or trade disturbances.
The attention of our people of late
has been bo much absorled by the
problems of our export trade, that wo
overlook the fact that the United
States today manufactures annually a
product aggregating in total value tho
combined manufactured product of
the three other greatest manufactur
ing nations of the world. England,
France and Germany, and we con
sume ninety-two per cent of our entire
annually manufactured products at
home.
Create Farm Homes.
And If every farm In the United
States were cut In two, and a new
home created on It so that the number
of farm homes, and the capital in
vested in, and labor devoted to agri
culture throughout the entire United
States, were thus doubled, the result
would be an enlargement of our popu
lation, our home market for manu
factures, and our power as a nation,
almost beyond the power of the Imag
ination to picture to the mind.
It Is to tbe development of its vast
agricultural resources and the creation
of a closely settled population of far
mers and gardeners, who will culti
vate the soil by the most Intensive
methods, that the Middle west must
look If It is to achieve Its full destiny
in wealth, power and population.
The resources of the great territory
extending westward from the crest of
the Alleghany Mountains to the one
hundredth meridian the edge of the
arid region and from the Hources of
the Mississippi Rlvpr on the north to
Its outlet to the Gulf on the south, are
so largely agricultural that it offers
the ideal section of the earth for tbe
development of a nation along the
lines of Japanese development, with
a preponderating rural population.
There Is no other section of the
world surface where latent agricul
tural resources of such Inexhaustible
richness and extent He practically undeveloped,
IVr, In fact, they art undeveloped.
W Lav, as yet. hardly more than
t!cL.td Ue 4iU eter ibis luimeus
area. N
Our Own Country.
When we compare Japan, with tu
dense population. Its wealth, its rev
enues, us trade and commerce. Its
uailoual strength, with any section of
our owu couutry equal to It lu area
aitd natural resources, we are antaaed
at the great possibility of future de
velopment in our own couutry.
The eutlre population of Japan Is
about forty-live million, of which
thlrtr million la furniiiiir it.imiUtl.ni
and this vast population of thirty mil-
... a . t. .
ion i armors auu mcir tamuies is sus
tained on nineteen thousaud square
miles of Irrigated laud. There is no
agriculture lit Japan but Irrigated
agriculture. They have learned that
water Is tht mihit fiHlll..i- k
to nature, and save and utilize it with
the same care that they use every
Other MVallaltltt tisv.H "f.r t foMiti.
- - - - ,u
Id t Ion of their Holds.
Nineteen thousand square mllea Is
an area about one hundred and thirty
live miles square, and in a square In a
corner of the State of Illinois, the com
paratlve sixe of which to the rest of
the State Is shown on the accompany
ln map, Is sustained n nation which,
to the amaxement of all other peoples
on tlie earth. haa mminir tn th rn
as ue of the great world powers,
t
Source of Pi wer, -
And the llouie Acre farms or gardens-the
rural homo of Japan are
the aonre t t'at national power.
Commenting on this, the minor of
the artute tu u.e August 1004 llook
lovers' Magazine, quoted from above,
say- In that article:
'From what IU advanced agricntt
nre has made Its pla'.us to yield. Japan
has fed and clot Ik d and educated Its
multiplying masses, fast uearlng the
fifty million figure; It baa etacked up
gold in Its treasury, has created a
great merchant marlne,ha captureda
growing share of European commerce,
has already outmarshaled commen-ial
America on the Pacific, has crowded
its cities with roaring factories, and
has given costly and triumphant equip
ment to Its aggressive Meets and regi
ments. And it has accomplished all
this out of the profit of harvests
gleaned from a farm area scarcely
large enough to afford storage room
for the agricultural machinery In use
In the United States."
Could there, be a more striking proof
of the oft-quoted words of David Starr
Jordan, that:
"Stability of national charactereoes
wUh firmness of foot-hold on the
BOIL"1
Comparison of Areas.
Now compare Japan and Its devel
opment with the possibilities of devcl-
onrnent in the Middle west.
Tbe area of all the islands compris
ing the Empire of Japan Is 147,055
sciuare miles: of this only 1!MMM)
square miles Is available for agrlcult
ure, for every available acre lu that
country is cultivated.
The total combined area or Wiscon
sin, Illinois and Indiana Is 14U.SW
square miles, and it is safe to say that
considerably more than half of this
area probably more than two thirds
is capable of as close a cultivation,
and of sustaining as dense a popula
tlon per square mile ns the cultivated
area of Japan.
The wuter with which to irrigate It
now runs to waste. The water which
Chicago turns Into her drainage canal,
instead of producing agrlcult-ral
wealth by Irrigating the lands of I III
nols, produces law suits with fit Louis
because it runs to waste past that
city to' the Gulf of Mexico.
The time will come when Irrigated
agriculture in the Middle West w'll
absorb every drop of water falling
within that territory.
And when tbe Irrigation canals and
the irrigated farms of the Middle
West will dry up the Ohio and the
Mississippi rivers, Just as irrlgatloi
In the West has dried up Tulare Lake
In California, ana is rapidly drying up
the .Great Salt Lake in Utah, the
floods of the MlUIppl and Its tribu
taries will be led out through a net
vork of canatit, larg aud mull, and
stored tu reservoirs, aud every drop
Joroled to Ienet1ct ue, a use that
will be so valuable that Its value for
aavlgntiou will wiuut for uottiing In
conutarlson. It may l a great many
years bvror this will happen, but It
Is certain to come. In no other way
can the vast pnrmlatlou with which
tuts couutry will leeui within a few
hundred years I provided with the
tvHxi to usum it.
Japan, from her total area of 1 17.
0"3 aqtmrt miles, of which wily lit .tun)
art) cultivated, collected au autiuul
rewnus befor the wa with llttssla
began of IIJI.-I.'U.T'.W aad her exports
amounted t ai.l.-iw.iv.a.
The average population per suimro
mils of Japan Is LVO.T1V but only one-
seveniu or nor territory is actually
under cultivation.
A Thousand Miles Square.
A section of our own country con
tained within a square extending one
thousand miles north from New Or
leans and ono thousand miles west
from Pittsburg, and containing one
million square miles, If as densely
populated as Japan, would sustain a
IHtmilattoU of :tiHUHm.(IUl! tint a imx-ll
larger proportion of this great square
u me wuicr 01 me 1 uiuhi states
could tie tntcntclr f-irnwxt thnn t
Japan, where only one-seventh of the
iciai area is cultivated.
On the 'I'.t.OtM) square miles of land
In Japan that la actually farmed the
sustain :tO.(HMXK) farmer. It U a
safe estimate that at least one-half of
the thousaud mile square cetitral oc
tlon of the United State atiovu 1..
crlbed could bo as closely cultivated
as the productive fields of Japau.
Those Jananooo flpl.lj mit itn
fifteen hundred people to the square
luue. .t me same ratio or population,
our own thousand mile sqimro central
section would sustain 7ot,000.(.KK) of
iiiiiiik Huiniiou mono.
A population of over firtecri hundred
1 the si 1 tin re mile sustaliuxl it ni.ri.
culture seems to the ordlnnrr mind In.
credible: but ou the llaud of Jersey,
off the English coat, a imputation of
ior thirteen hundred to we nqunre
lie Is sustained by out of door agrl
llture In a climate by no meaus bout
laptod to Intensive funning.
It must be borne In mind that we arc
Ikltlg How (if Ihe luiHHll.llitl... rt
ta
future development, and the facts and
St ...... . . 1 ... ... . ...
irra noove given will 110 tloulit tie
iked UlKtU as utterly rhluirl.-l hr
the average reader.
Degeneracy I Fngland.
Hear In mind however, agulu, that
:ier are based onlv nnon th mnnitinit.
tlon that we In this country tdiould st
un to a point or ucvclopuicut already
-ached bv the Jiiniineno imxihIh m.ii
on which rests their national utretigtu.
It 1 true tliat our development duf
ig the last tiaif-centurv tin imt luii
towards the land. We have followed
the foot Me tm of Klichuiil rmiu.p
than Japan: aud while, in nrtv
Japan bus restored tue land to her
pcopie una nxucu mem to tue soli in
homes of their own, England has
done the contrary. She has driven
ier yeomanry from the farms to the
Itles, where they have become fac
tory oeratlvcs, and degenerated
ihysii-ally and mentally to such a de
ne that the degeneracy of her cltl
etishin now rtrcNcnta Its.-lf tn tin.
atati-Miicn of England as a tnot rm.
palling problem. ,
c are doing tho same thing. Imt
e nre not. vet. flliifr tl, iir.i-'a
w
f it so severely hccatie we have still
larccr uronortlou of our uconlc mi
the laud.
Back to the Land.
Te have much to do to reverse the
tide of population, nud turn it frtn
the cities back to the land from the
tenement to the garden. It must not
lc imagined that It Is necessary, !l
order to accomplish this, that the
workers In our cities or In our fac
tories should quit their present em
ployment and Is'come farmers. All
that Is necessary is that 11m facilities
for rapid transportation afforded by
our trolley system should lie availed
t to plant every factory family upon
at least an acre of land.
Lot that be done, nud the problem
s praci.caliy solved 1:0 matter
though the acre be used for nothing
but to raise chickens and keen a goat
ihe children of the family will have
fresh air and sunshine and pure milk.
and will grow up to be healthy men
ana women.
The lever with which we rnunt
move our population back to the land
must be the public school system.
Gardens and Handicraft.
Every child In the public schools,
boy or girl, must be trained from Its
arilest days of school life to cultl
vate the ground and make things
gruw In a garden, and to raise poul
try, and do all that needs to be done
to provide the food for a family from
in acre or lano.
Add to this a training In simple
sloyd work and borne handicraft,
ooking and sewing aud making thlncs
for the home, and you w. have cre
ated tlie Impulse In the minds of the
multiplying millions of our children
which will lead them to shun the
bricks and the asphalt, tho slums nnd
the tenements, as they would shun
the plague, and flee from them far
nough Into the country to have an
acre at least ror a borne and a gar
den.
Create this Impulse In the minds of
our children, the millions upon mil
lions of them who are attending, nnd
will attend, our public schools, and
they will find A way to solve all the
rest or the problem, now to get tho
land, and how to get back and forth
to it, If they continue to work In the
city or the factory.
Some will say that school gardens
cannot be provided for city children
That is a mistake. The only dlUi-
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culty In the say of It Is a mere cu
tksm or habit, easily modified.
The terms of school of all city
school should le changed. Then
should N a short winter term, dur
lug which the time should Ih glvcu to
tiiHlructhui from the book and in
handicraft wltlilii doors.
There should U ti summer term ot
equal length during which the school
would ls trnicrrcd to the suburbs,
and work lu summer school garden.
The children should l0 taken I nick
and forth to tlie summer school gar
den at public cxm'Umc, a they urc
now taken to and from tlie consoli
dated rural schools 011 the trolley
line lu some of the New England
state,
Tho vacatton, whtch would not need
Is so long, wlmuld h divided Ix-tweli s
spring vacation aud a fall vacation,
lutrrvenlng Is-tween ihe winter city
erm and the couutry summer term ot
each school,
Dulldlnn Strong Cltlsenshlp.
Of course, many will hold up their
band and say this I Impossible,
England Ami it ttupottlc, as the
result of her system of great landed
Mutes, tu provide her lvplo with
homes on I lie laud, and lu rouse
qisMice her ruin a u nation I only a
uuestlou of comparatively brief
time.
Japan, on the contrary, put forth
her hand and solved the very problem
which, to England, seems liitpnxMitile,
and In-bold the result lu her strength
nnd power as a nation.
It Is only n question with m, 0N n
people, whether we will follow the
lead of Japan, and profit by her les
sons, or follow the lead of England
and share In her eventual ruin.
The lutlucncc which arc destroying
England nre at work steadllv and in
sidiously in this nation, anil though
It will take longer for them to work
our ruin. It l mire to come If we do
Hot find a way to root the great
majority ,f our people to the land In
home of their own, as Japan has
done, and ns we can do, unless we
are as blind and ns Impotent In deal
lug with our national problem
seem to U the fate f England.
In the carrying out of this great
patriotic purpose of building a strong
cltlxetiKhip by building rural homes
on the land, we are. at the mm
tin, .tng that which will rreato
the greatest pnihle commercial
prosperity, and develop to the high
est attainable point, not only the re
source of the Middle West, but of
our entire country.
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pickles to 2.116 gallons. The olive was
Introduced Into California 13S years
ago, which is a bad showing for use
of native olive oil. especially when
It la acknowledged to be ths superior
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