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Show SECRETARY SHAW'S SPEECH. The speech of Mecretai) of the Treas-uiy Treas-uiy Shaw to the .National Uuslness League in Chicago mails him as a broad-minded stiteaman of the llrsi rank He is able and wining to ton-cede ton-cede that there are Important Interests outside ot the routine ot the Hastern communtt) In speaking of the question ques-tion of irrigation, he delivered this pointed tebuko to those who have objected ob-jected to riovei nmetit aid 'I have little lit-tle sympathy und scant patient e with the provincialism which oppose any plan of developing uny part of our lominon country, which has lu toot In the feat that it will create sectional competition" 1'lt vvoida, bravely sno-keiu sno-keiu We trust that they may be taken to heart by the nan nw .gauge provincials provin-cials whose petty and contemptible attitude culled them fnith Hut the 8cm relary sees on geneial grounds stiong objections to dlrei t ilovernmeiital aid, he prefers aid to private capital lathei than dl-teil dl-teil l'cdeial Intel position. That haii, Indeed, been a favorite method of proiedure, and weie it applied to the Irrjgutlon problem prob-lem gieat iCMilta might be obtained n u under thu svstem the private H ml would natuiallv set ft certain p inl points of fiprrnlin iml wo ill Jev I p tho i ithllltl a n tt "i pom's fi thf - utmrst pn)lnE rv buttle ti nly without legatd to the less remu nerative propositions but pcrhapi to their absolute bar for all time Tor Instance, let there lie two sides of a river bottom, one compaiatlvely easy of Irrigation, hut Jet ietUlrlng large expenditure while offering good pros-pectUe pros-pectUe returns; and the other requiring requir-ing much larger Immediate expenditures, ex-penditures, though rierhnps having tho promise nf fair returns in suih a case, the company aided would develop the first proposition, and would plant its works to the development of the one side and the permanent neglect of the other, nnd not only so, but so that the reclamation of the other tract would be ptevented for all time There are large questions, also, which no company would be willing to undet-take, undet-take, so that development In the in inner in-ner suggested would be but little better than to leave tho mattei where It Is. speaking with n Mew to the whole. The litigation, also, that would follow upon the operatlona of different companies com-panies on the same streams (aa the Snake river, for example) would probably prob-ably be to the water litigation heretofore hereto-fore had in the sume proportion that the magnitude of the operations Involved In-volved might bear to opetutlons heretofore. The control ot the chief rlvera to be used on a large scale In future Irrigation Irriga-tion enterprises, rests with the CienernI Government. The land to be reclaimed li principally Government land Uvery condition of the problem points tn u National solution and nn other. That I the only solution which would be comprehensive nnd thoinugh It Is to be hoped that the jiuestlon will be undet un-det taken In such inknner ns to afford an entire solution of It. and not allow of nny more patch-work anil partial redemptions. There should bo ample preparation, the capacity ot every streams should be determined, the lands available tor watering should lie measured, approximately at least, and the work done should be on a practical. Intelligent basis, adapting means to ends and suppl)lng no more and no less than the needs ot eaoh wise would require Just as an Intelligent man wnuld do were It hi own private business. |