Show rhe Nafional Irrigation Congress The World’s experience has demonstrated that the World’s greatness is due to its producers The slave Asiatics and to influence Con- gress not through a mistaken sympathy to turn all of this business over to Cuba and wipe out the promising industry in our own country thereby encouraging the colonization of the arid west what measures should be taken? Such questions as these are being solved by the National Irrigation Congress “Save the It has for its motto Forests and Store the Floods” The public sentiment must be educated The different portions of the arid region have much to learn some of the necessary things being in the interchange of experience Hence the most prominent men of the section assemble each vear listen to the addresses of experts on Irrigation and Forestry as well as kindred subjects and express the opinion of the majority in the form of a series of resolutions These are sure to influence the legislators of the country Thus the direct aim is to secure legislation that will aid in the reclamation of the arid West The Eleventh Annual Assembly was in every way one of the most important sessions in the history of the organization The attendance was larger the interest greater and the work accomplished more voluminous than at any previous session affluence 70000000 of people but Besides the regular work of the the land that has available water Congress fruit as a product of Irhas been taken up To prevent the rigation was on display In general the sentiments of the production of our sugar by semi only valuable citizen speaking literally is the producer The man who does not produce something with his brain or his hands is not and can not in the nature of the world’s arrangements be a good citizen And while all producers are valuable the most valuable of all is the individual who produces from naWe ture’s store house the soil could do without the trades arts and sciences but we cannot live without food To the farm we must look for everything we eat and everything we wear The day the fanners go out of business the nations of the earth will be paralyzed One of the chief influences of rural life — the industrial independence and the glorious contact with nature cannot be too strongly insisted upon The boys and girls who grow up in the city learn from the beginning their dependence upon others They must work for others as a means of gaining a livelihood just as their fathers are doing They too must live in houses that other men own Yet in arid America we have enough arable land anti enough water when united to support in 7 |