Practical farming; a treatise on present farming conditions and how to improve them by Allerton Samuel Waters 1828-

Author:Allerton, Samuel Waters, 1828- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Agriculture
Publisher: [Chicago] Rand, McNally & company
Published: 1907-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

—not sentiment. When they had the ship canal completed, costing untold millions, with its locks and water-power, people would want bread. The locks would prohibit the reclaiming of millions of acres of the richest land in the world. These locks would have to come out.

A great national debt means taxation. Government Ownership and Government control means that the individual energy of the nation will be broken. We would be retrograding—would be a nation of taxpayers controlled by Government officials, and our individual independence would be destroyed.

The great men of our nation have been running our Government on sentiment for the last ten years. Out of sentiment we commenced war with Spain to defend Cuba. We spent millions and sacrificed the lives of our soldiers, and, through sentiment, said to Cuba, "You may have your independence." An English statesman would have said, "You may get under the old flag and be one of us, but if you wish to be an independent nation, you must give us

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