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Show THE NEW LAW Among the mini rood speeches made at the Ute session of the Irrigation Irriga-tion congresc at Colorado Springs one t the happiest efforts was that of John W Springer pruldent of the National Uve stock asoclutloii We quote some of Mr bprlngcra periods is follows Irrigation I our Western ignis fatu-ua fatu-ua which will draw thousand of landless tenant fiom the over crowded bast, nnd tens of thousands from the vallf) of the .Mississippi The twentl eth centur) Is heav) with po-'lbllltles Irrigation Is now a fixed fact nnd vv have HOOOOOO available foi Immediate expenditure under I'eieial manage ment for an actual demonstration of the practkablllt) of atorlng the flood waters of the Hock) mountains The oneervatloti of wust waters Is the hlef link In what sh ill be u great chain of lakes teservolrs and dams which during this decade shall make glad the waste laces of the great Vmerlcan deserts A new empire Is to be bullded! All hall to the progressive men who sided In Its birth und will from thl congress direct the llrst step toward miking the wilderness of the Wt blossom and bloom is th rose Thl pronoaltlon like ever) other great queatlon confronting us nt the dawn of the twentieth centur) must be handled b) men who do thing' progressive men men who believe in their counti). men who believe that the pithwn) to Industrial Independence and commercial aupreinic) lies before is and not behind u ,Wc.llrml) be lleve In hitching our wagons to if star where there I light rather than to a hole in the ground where there Is no light but 1 )mbol of the old warning Abandon hope all jxiu who entei here I admire a Oplcal American I enthuo when I read the hlstor) of the atiug gles lind trial and hardships of the leader of the dcade now sweet In mentor It ha been u svmposium of nation il successes nnd I would not I luck one ttar from our national diadem dia-dem Hlstoi), however can never solve actuilltles ou and 1 live to-da) to-da) nnd It N our province to nld In writing ihe hlstor) of greater suc-cesees We have at last placed on the Fed eral statute books the rlnflple of The conservation of the waste waters and this small beginning will work like a little leaven the conquest with a bloodiest icvolutlon of our American wilderness We are constAntl) growing broader in our natlonil life We have learned to get awn) from our own door)ard and our own neighborhood We arc no longer circumscribed by the narow limit of down East of the conl fields of the oil llel Is of Ohio and Indiana of the wheat belt of the Northwest of the corn district of Illinois Iowa and Kansas of the cotton fleldii of the "outh or of the fast ilex eloping sugar-beet sugar-beet districts of Colorado or the cattle an 1 sheep range of the f ir W est Our national life la too greit too broad too unselfish to cosmnpollun too national We nre all striving for success suc-cess We want to grow expand ad vance We want In line to go forward Woe to the leader who seeks to sidetrack side-track the energies of the American peo-lie peo-lie Moe to the pessimist who continual!) contin-ual!) predicts clouds failures and de feat for American genius ho will drop out down like the Irishman In Mcx I o who In going down to work In a mine for the first time became xer) nervous ns the shadotvs gilheretl about hltn Aa the bucket droned lower and loner his fears Increased nnd he )elled Lower me up O I su) loner me up or I II cut the roic nd now in) fellox-workers what of the night Uellever In Irrigation are )ou keenly alive In the superb op portunlt) Just ahead of ou for to no other age has come the same great chance to build a Paradise fiom the lc) hill of Montana lo the sand dune of Ulzoni from the plains of Knnsa to the orange groves of the golden Mate Methlnka th it that sneet singer, William Uradbury must have written these wonderful line after a trip over tilts vast terrltor) T1.,.'t' ";, "rlu. i hill and irountalns Where tbei golden sunbeuna ol Purling streams anl 1'ryatal fountslns Sparfcl In th eternal da) This will be trul) a paradise with water a home where sunshine and contentment will be the chief cornerstones corner-stones an Ideal a tjplcal dwelling place for free men for free women and the sweet children a merciful provl dene has given them This th great American ilddl-th- utilisation of the arid plains-will be solved under Irrl gallon 1 wiah to sound u note or naming Do not expect everything of the Pedeial c.overnment It ha biased th l ind ita effort should stlmu lata over) Western Mate to aid this measure by state enactments an I State aid. Do n t ui) hcururs, iey nion cllhsr r. brel (Invariunent or state government Uenuath and above It all Ueyonl both alda rely moon yourselves and your own effort. Individual ard corporal aid will accomplish muh mor than all the governments on earth Private capital should he n,. duced. encouraged and coaxed to build dam lakes and reservoirs All should be protected In thlr rights Th hlsior of the American ptalnh has been written In the best blood of the American pioneers in a part of thl land the old proi het Hrlgbam oung taught his footsore pilgrims m store the mountain nntcr und redeetr the deserts and the faith ful followed on and obeyed his Injun tlon of Live and help live |