Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1901 — ASKS GOVERNMENT AID. [ARTICLE]

ASKS GOVERNMENT AID.

Speaker a. Farmers’ Congress Appeals for Arid Loads. At the fnrmors' national congress in Slonx Fulls Dr. J. W, Ileston of the South Dakota Agricultural College, in a paper on “Farmers’ Opportunities,’’ discussed the necessity of government aid for the reclamation of the arid lands of the West. He declared that private enterprise had already accomplished all possible to be done and nothing further coaid b« expected until the general governmeat

came to Hid. He said that the general government had received $500,000,000 from the sale of western lands since 1875' nnd thought it not unreasonable to ask that $15,000,000 be expended for ten yonrs in the reclamation of lands capable of supporting a population equal to the present population of the United States. He declared that States could not deal with the problem and nothing could be done until the government made an appropriation and be urged the farmers' congress to press the matter to the attention of Congress.