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Rh lived for the past ten years, is a beautiful State with many natural resources. It is large enough to include within its boundaries all of the New England states; in that state the last census reports 2,075,000 people as compared with 6,550,000 in the New England states. The beautiful states of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, only just beginning their majestic development, have an area of 250,000 square miles and less than 3,000,000 people. Austria-Hungary has 261,000 square miles and nearly 50,000,000 people. Minnesota, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon are capable of supporting, in due time, as dense a population as New England, and New England can support as dense a population as Austria-Hungary.

What does this mean? It means that the West must and will grow, but it also means that New England must and will grow. A virile, prosperous, and happy people in the Mississippi Valley and between there and the Pacific Coast means an increasing purchasing power for those things that New England makes, and an increasing demand upon her Rh