. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . or the millions to come. Would you practice charity and do unto otliers as you would bedone by. Here is the opiiortunity, and it will cost you nothing but a little time. But, yon ask, how? Give your aid and assistance in openingthis vast territory to the four millions of people that are without homes. Gather them from the over-crowded cities,
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . or the millions to come. Would you practice charity and do unto otliers as you would bedone by. Here is the opiiortunity, and it will cost you nothing but a little time. But, yon ask, how? Give your aid and assistance in openingthis vast territory to the four millions of people that are without homes. Gather them from the over-crowded cities, out of the mines and workshops,,the counting-houses, from the forge, and from the crowded districts of the country, to a place where the hearty farmer, young ami old, can startout in life with a home he can call his own, and where all classes of unemployed seeking homes can find them at small cost. Here they will be-come producers instead of consumers, and will send back East the products of the farm for the products of the loom, and to a great extent settle oneof the most vexed questions of the day, viz., What shall we do with the iniemployed. In this way they can be made free, independent, law-abiding, wealth-producing American citizens. v (71). No nian-or set of men can fiud better investments with quiclver returns and do his fellow-man more goodthan by opening these large tracts of land for settlement in ten to forty acres per individual, and selling themfor cash or on the installment plan. I said that irrigation meant closer civilization; I might say a new civilization, for it places side by sidethe tillers of the soil so closely that the country is changed into a town, and for miles and miles the farm-houses are closely connected, so that the dreariness and loneliness of farm life is done away with, and thefarmers wife and family find that pleasure and happiness that otherwise was but seclusion and exile. I can-not tarry longer on irrigation in general. I was to write abo
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