Show TRUTH AS TO THE IRRIG IRRIGATION TION ACT I I Senator Justly En Entitled j titled to the Credit FOUGHT BYTH I CLAIM OP OF DEN 1 i 1 1 to rh li B cJ Sept une O Li do development of the nel on I ul a ign is the prominence o Othe I Itte I the tte n Issue The Dem r tC a are forcing th tha fIght while the Republicans 1 ha have been compelled to assum assunia 11 the defensive The St Louis Loul platform boldly de clar dares that the national Irrigation law now on til statute books Is a measure b by It a Democrat passed In the senate b by a nonpartisan vot vote and In the house houle against the or of almost an all the Republican b by at a vote the majority of which was Democratic tic The op opening ing of the campaign In the east is marked by a vigorous Demo cl assault on the o or growing extravagance for naval and expenditures ant and antan an equally vigorous demand for the the republic at home In accordance with the following plank of the St at Louis We call attention to this I r aCt as asan asan an evidence ort oj the policy of domestic development b by the Dem erratic party should It be placed In power th the line Hue Is drawn clearly be between I tW tween en the top two parties rUes It is not a queS lues vr nor nul not of oC anti In tile Sense It Is It a plain matter of dollars and cents and of how and where herf it is 18 best for Uncle cle San Sans to spend his money mone Te stand for home development a as foreign expansion and for fop forthe the armies armiS of ae as against the ts armies or cit war They claim that their record and platform justify them In this attitude Shaw to the Rescue Le Leslie U M 1 w secretary of the tho hIs recent speech largely to the defense or of the administration this question lie He took for Cor hl hin a article bY WIlliam E Sm Smythe thc rather father or of the national irrigation congress a well known California Demo Demorat rat erat wIt who is taking an active part In Inthe Inthe the caI for Parker and Davis I Secretary Shaw denied leni d that the thc Dein are entitled to any credit in eon con connection with national Irrigation and that history will give the en entire tire Ure credit for what has h m pushed l to Roosevelt He do de ret was the first firstman mAnto man to rl risk k I 5 fortunes fortun s by bythe Ute the e espousal of and that n WhAt others bud tried to lo do both hoth In and out of they were no nearer n they were ton years years ago until the president 8 a national irrigation policy in hIs sa sage e of DeC 3 IDOl 1101 He analyzed the bill orIginally drawn b by Senator NM Ne lands and declared that it did not con tam tida 00 ideas embodied in the pre present ent legislation Democrats Answer Mr replied to in a speech nl at D Denver nr H He said Pres Ident I after the policy pOncy had billi ben endorsed by e every ery party part In the United i cans can Socialists or of course who alwais lit favor VOl water He asked how a man mn could riSk rik his hill political al fortunes b by advocating a policy f favored by the representatives of oC eel every voter Th the States He hla wagon to the riser stAr of as a It l allon resplendent n ent in the western SkY shy SAid Mr r itt t a time when Its light was that a man could read reada a presidential Message u E at midnight The esker d that the presidents president h n w 11 In lila his be by his cabinet but tin an unprejudiced td lila m mention two other facts First that of patriotic men labored for more a doz dozen n yours ears to convince lh thIT of the po i or of the arid wc west l and at len length succeeded ITt In committing every political p party to their policy nd t previous to McKinley McKIney S second inauguration Francis rancis G New Newlands lands of Nevada O Democrat intro steed leed a bm bill so just and aIMI that It Instantly united the west and aDd distil Ue the of the west south t c hiP The oC the original eland bUt ere as r follows FirstA pet permanent reclamation fund Cund drawn from the receipts of land Jand sales S for the secretary of the interior o investigate ih tiN ties and add pr el to mediate eon truet n throughout bout Ute the arId region of oC congress congre s from entry or of I public lands needed canals reser reservoirs voles or settlements j l of wOrks to be i repaid by settlers In ten annual install I more than eighty acres to tobe I be taken by an nor more than eighty a acres res of water rater rights to Lo tobe I Ild be sold ld tea to a laud OW owner eI i tights made I rant nant to t the land Janel with beneficial use I tM the the and the of at atthe tM the the fundamental princiPles of the pres present now b being out In the west They wore were all allin allin in the orl nal Newland bill bUl of Jan 2 when McKinley was still In his first term and Reo Roosevelt evelt a private elti citi zen n Mr MI followed this with two or three Oth other r bills but the first bill wu wa the ne actual mother of the tho ties tion which owed and supplied the Ule vital ot of the great JoU JoUIt volley It was accepted as aa Me breAk b by time friends of oC the cau canTo c In 55 and Tad out and nd all united in the ts to per et It From one end ot of iM the other it was ds dis as ag the he bill b by the Ule as well reli as the Demo Fight iii the tho House Hous HousT T The e house was the batU Cannon Moody Payne Hep Hepburn Hepburn burn sibley Ible nil AU the leader the bill rIy Itne the it with enthusiasm Th The rota ote l av r 46 against t 4 a 11 raG TRUTH AS TO THE I I IRRIGATION ACT I from eJ f Democrats In favor is an n a majority Republicans 69 a minority of the votes required require Democrats op opposed 13 Republicans 4 42 Secretary Sha did not di discuss the had not the to do so 10 He triumphantly to his audI nce oh ohe or o the law which was riot In the orIginal Democratic pro provision ro rois vision is ion r requiring owners of f private l irrigated by national works to reside On said land 01 r in the immediate neigh neighborhood b thereof A pr pretty tty small mouse for so big a mount mountain ln Or of an of 01 at r to bring forth Forward t the e West The Republicans Je ans propose nothing further said Mr Accord inS rn to their platform the ot of civilIzation In the west is a closed in incident incIdent The Democrats propose to go forward orward until our resources at are utilized for the highest good ot of mankind We te know they will Ill keep th their Ir promIse for many reasOns Because this western land Is the her heritage heritage of Democratic manship the Loui lana purchase the acquisition from Mexico Because the Democrats redeemed their irrigation pledge of four foUl years ears ag ago S Because they stayed with us to the bitter end in our struggle lor br silver Because e the building othe of the republic at home is the 1 antithesis is of extending the empIre abroad The in the last Jast eight years have Increased the Uie ex cx expenses posses ot of the ann army from to of oC th the navy from froni to and squandered n nearly on the Philippines We would tUrn the national ener energies gies and capital to th the making of homes and markets throughout the west vest till the la last t home bome and factory shan shall be on AmerIcan soil |