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- TRWTH TRUTH 'flR. Issued Weekly by W ' ' Truth Publishing Company, B I ' 32 Eagle Block, jlL, Salt Lake City, Utah. K John W. Hughes, Editor and Mangr. fijb Entered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake Hfc I City, Utah, as second-class matter, ,Bj under Act of Congress of Mar. 3, 1879 Rt, Terms of Subscription: 'R- I Postmasters sending subscriptions fiB-1 1 to TRUTH may retain 25 per cent of &mi subscription price as commission. F5," If the paper is not desired beyond fljksl the date subscribed for, the publica- fir 1 lion should be notified by letter two m ! weeks or more before term expires. f Discontinuances. V Remember that the publisher must jf- I I be notified by letter when a subscriber B .' wishes his paper stopped; all arrears 0 must be paid in full. J. Requests of subscribers to have f their paper mailed to a new address, ! to secure attention, must mention for- t I mcr as well as present address. ' ,, , Address all communications to t I TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY I' Salt Lake City, Utah. tt ! I - ft I 1 "No one who is honest need fear." I It is almost unnecessary to say I ' from what source these words came. I They arc so plain, so unmistakable, W 1 so unerring and yet so homely that 't they brand themselves even in print i with the plainly discerned Roosc- K, ' vcltian branding iron. K The occasion was the laying of the corner stone of the Pilgrim memorial K monument at Provincctown, Mass. H ' on Tuesday last, when the President W l 1 of the United States delivered the ad- W I - dress. He had reference, in the above t I words, to corporations in general and i. I those which take advantage of their t, - chartered cxclusivencss to do unlaw- K' . ful things particularly. The corallary K j accompanies the "utterance without S. having been spoken by the President j" Those that arc not honest have jK need and much need to fear, at least L'' while he is at the helm. Bp- j Here arc some more golden words Wh ' in the midst of a mine of them: p. I "The rich man who with hard ar- K . rogancc declines to consider the m h rights and the needs of those who K ,1 arc less well off, and the poor man 'ill ! who excites or indulges in envy and f j hatred of those who arc better off, E, , ' arc alike alien to the spirit of our y " ' national life. Each of them should '- learn to appreciate the baseness and I !' degradation of his point of view, as !, evil in the one case as in the other. There exists no more sordid and un lovely type of social development " j " than a plutocracy, for there is a pecu liar unwholesomcness in a social and governmental ideal where wealth by 1 and of itself is held up as the great- i est good. The materialism of such a , view, whether it finds its expression 'I in the life of a man who accumu'atcs ' v j a vast fortune in ways that are rc- ' l' pugnant to every instinct of generosi ty and of fair dealing, or whether it finds its expression in the vapidly useless and self-indulgent life of the ' intcritor of that fortune, is contemp- 11 tible in the eyes of all men capable 1 of a thrill of lofty feeling." I I In order to add the greatest pos- I siblc grandeur convcyablc by words It to one of his kingly characters Shakespeare said of him that he was "every inch a king." So, slightly paraphrasing, may we speak of Theo dore Roosevelt he is every inch a President. o CITY SCHOOL REPORT. WJc arc all deeply interested in the public schools. They arc of norc importance to the nation and every part thereof than politics, railroads or even gold mines. However, we don't have to let go of cither of these in order to have the others, rather, the more we have of cither the more of the others we arc likely to have. These things suggest themselves as the opening of the season approaches, and the comforting though comes with them that in no part of the pub lic domain arc there better institutes of learning, more commodious or better equipped structures or a great er percentage of attendance ,and ef ficiency than here in Salt Lake City. The sixteenth annual report of the municipal board of 'education is out and a copy has found its way to the editorial table. It is well illustrated and presents an array of statistics be speaking great labor and care on the part of the compilers. The expense account and treasurer's report are carefully made up, and the array of details is exhaustive and interesting Figuring among the latter we find that the percentage of punctuality on the part of students is 99.7, being so near to the perfection point that we might as well call it that. The attendance for' the 'ensuing year will show a very great rate of increase, being between 3000 and 4000 or about 20 per cent, this also bespeaking a necessary and corresponding increase in the population. But for the fact that the school authorities were vot ed, a few months ago, ample means for additions, enlargements and im provements to the school system, it might be a matter of some apprehen sion as to whether such a rapid growth would receive adequate at'en tion, but this is, as suggested, all hap pily provided for. . n THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE The .Agricultural College at Lo gan has issued an exceedingly well prepared and excellently printed cata logue for this and next year's course, the first term beginning on the 17th of next month, the second term Jan uary 28th. It contains also a com plete list of the students for last and this year, the board of trustees and the factulty, headed by Prof. John A. Widtsoc. The engravings, which are numerous, arc exceedingly well exe cuted, the frontispiece being a view of the group of Agricultural College buildings, to which visitors have a standing invitation. They look ex cellently well, 111 fact striking1, on paper and their appearance in reality must certainly constitute an attrac tion worthy of the great cause to which they arc devoted. EVery de partment is as thorough as experi ence, skill and means can make it and is effectively presented in the lit tle volume. The Agricultural College is one of the institutions of which the state may be and is justly proud. Its evo lution from more modest circum stances up to the great and splendidly equipped institution it now is speaks loudly the praises of its founders, promoters, conductors and support ers. That it may continue to grow and prosper, spreading its influence and widening its capacity for use fulness is a wish that will find a will ing endorsement in the breast of every loyal son and daughter of the commonwealth. Freed fromi bicker ings and strife, always out of place, in and not properly relating to it, there is nothing to check or turn it aside .from the upward and onward path it is pursuing. o PROGRESS OF DRY FARMING. It used to be a saying, in the days when the ast areas of the middle west was still unclaimed, that "Uncle Sam, was rich enough to give all his children a farm." Since that time the family has grown so great, both .by birth and adoption, that the middle west has bccii filled up, and the old Uncle's belated children have been pushed out to the valleys of the mountains. He is still rich however. The streams in his mountains hive not yet been one quarter used to ir rigate the lands possible to be re claimed from the desert, and latterly the application of scientific farming has so enriched the old man that it may be said with some truth even at the present time, that still there is farming land enough to give us all a farm. In one month's time there will con vene in Salt Lake City one of the most niomentcous conventions or con gresses that ever was held in the United States. That congress will he the "dry farming" congress, and its influence will be as far felt, and its de ductions as far reaching in its effect upon the country at large as any that has been held within the past decade It has been said that when the Utah pioneers turned the waters of a moun tain stream over the land so as to plough it, and so laid the foundation of modem irrigation, that they have an empire to the United States. No truer saying was ever made than this. They not only gave an empire to the government, they did more: They preserved the empire which al ready belonged to the Amcrkan peo ple. Had it not been for the science of irrigation the vast mineral wealth of the mountains would never have been developed, and the golden stream which has flowed through the arteries of commerce would never have been enriched enough to have produced the industrial wonders which the people have wrought dur ing the last half century. If, however, the pioneers added an empire" to the country, it can safely he said that scientific arid farming will add two empires to the agricultural lands of the United States. For every acre that irrigation has added to the tillable land of the arid states, scientific dry farming will add two if not three acres, and for every home that irrigation has made possible, there will be two homes made pos sible by dry farming. It was thought at one time that there were vast stretches of country in the arid west which would never be of any use except as a scanty graz ing ground for western flocks and herds. Tru'c there are still great stretches of country which will never, and can never be used for any other purpose, yet there arc millions of acres of land which can be reclaimed and made to produce sufficient to sus tain one hundred times more of ani mal life than, they can sustain at the I present time. ty i Dry farming was a discovery. Like most discoveries it came by an acci dent. As the story was told to the writer a man by the name of More house attempted to- produce a crop without irrigation. He ploughed up the land and planted it to grain, but found that the young plants burned up in the summer heat. Again he planted the land, only to meet the same result. Discouraged he threw up his land and abondoncd the at tempt. Several seasons after this an other in passing over the land was attracted by the .moisture the ground ( appeared to possess. He decided to follow up the experiment which Morehouse had abandoned. To the surprise of all in the countryside, the crop was the most bountiful in that part of the country. There was a reason for this, and both himself and his neighbors set about the task of finding out the cause. A careful study of arid soils led to the discovery thai the soil was filled with capillery tubes which led down through the 1. sub-soil. It was discovered that all , the moisture which the land absorbed throughout the wet seasons escaped through these tubes. It was also dis covered that if the capillery tubes were broken up by constant tillage, that enough moisture would be re tained in the soil to produce a crop. It was found, however, that as con ditions arc in the arid west, that the land has to lie fallow during one sea son in order to conserve enough moisture to produce results. This however, is no great hardship as the crop when produced is nearly if not fy. quite double that which is produced on watered land. It is also found that straw and other fodder which is grown on the arid farms contain near ly twice the nutriment of that on the irrigated lands. Arid farming though it has develop ed with rapid strides during the last decade, is not by any means an exact science. There is still much to be done in the way of experiment. These experiments will be gtfeatly along the line of evolving cereals and vegct ables which will adapt themselves to arid culture. Rapid strides have al ready been made along these lines. Dry farm or winter cats, is one of these. This grain is the product of the experiments of a Utah man. Til's