Show IS s IT PATERNALISM In rh some parts of or the United States ther Is objection to the government borrowing money mone Issuing bonds for forthe the UH Improvement of ot the Mississippi riv nv river river nver er and for the construction of ot a deep waterway from the lakes lake to the gulf The objection la Is that the process amounts to paternalism But flut la Is it It If so then we must as assume assume sume that the tho government is something separate and apart from rom the people If It so no one must assume that the people have nothing to do with the general government except to pay taxes The better view vie Is that the govern government government government ment Is the people that whatever money or credits the nation can com corn command command mand are the property of tho whole people and that there can be no rio higher use for them than the service of ot the people Pay as you go Is a n good rule ex ox excepting cep that you dont go far In large undertakings The individual cannot conquer nature Large projects bene benefiting benefiting benefiting fiting all nIl tho the people must be done by aJl aji the people It must bo be done by the massing of their power against the power of at nature No man now living and none nono that may ma come later can make a deep wa waterway waterway from the lakes to the gulf ulf It Itcan Itcan Itcan can be accomplished ed only by all the people lending a portion of their joint fortune the cash and the resources of at atthe the nation and providing the improve improvement Improvement improvement ment And nd the only question in the matter Is Will It be for the good of the whole people Of that we wo do not believe bellee there is a doubt It was vas wise and helpful to everyone In the nation to have the government aid in the matter of ot Irrigation The re result suit sult will be a bigger field of ot wheat than have been secured without that assistance Great Groat reaches of ot land that would have remained Indefinitely in desert condition have been reclaimed and the worthless valueless useless land Is nw now selling for from a hundred t to thousand dollars an acre because b cause L i i i worth that money Also it is pro diu ing food for the millions The same saab is true of the Strawberry project and the Gunnison project And the same ame will be true tru of the Mississippi alley scheme Also in some day pot not lot too far distant distanti t i will wilt be the policy that will throw a STieS of dams across the Colorado riv nv river er H install plants for generating elec electrical electrical electrical energy and will win force the now wasting asting water out over the desert lands f tir fr r a thousand square miles mUes in south rn ri Utah and In the Arizona strip The nation can do no better work then than to use Its cash and Its credit for forthe the advancing of qt we will benefit the people who compose so Q the th nation |