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Show a si i cnii aik.i itK.vr. ; Commenting on the action taken by I tho Irrigation congress held in this city t wo weeks ago, the Springliold irfiiih-linai irfiiih-linai concede that if the arid lands must be reclaimed, the best way to accomplish ac-complish it is by ceiling them to the states and territories in which they are j located. Hut it is opposed to the re-I re-I rlamation of the lands on tho ground j that thera is already too much land ; uiTler cultivation, and tho increasing I ot ti.D number of acin would be disss-! disss-! irons, to the eastern fanner who al-j al-j ready Millers because the markets ara ' over s,ippbu I. 11 cli an argument could only have its birth in the mind of a man born and ' living at the present lime in the narrow nar-row environment of New England, where not only the farmer, but nearly everybody else, has to light for a bare existence, The writer of such logic evidently cannot comprehend that as J one industry advances in a country all i ethers keep an even siep with it; that as agriculture increases, so does manu-I manu-I factoring, and everything else. lis cannot comprehend that there is aa oin-pire oin-pire to bn developed west of the western west-ern limits of Kansas and Nebraska and east of the l'acilio and that the only way it can be duv eloped is by the application ap-plication of water. True political economy reasons in favor of the greatest great-est good to tho greatest number, but the Hi 'iihlinin can only see injury to those at prevent engaged in farming by the opuuing up of a new region where thousands of people enn make homes and a decent living in tne pursuit of agriculture. Thu argument reminds one forcibly of that used iu England when Et.lA.s IIovvk lirsl took his sowing machine ov er there. Meetings were held and it was agreed that he ought to be expelied from the country because his infamous invention would take the bread out of the poor neauistrenses mouths; and yet, the seamstress is as well oil todav, and eats as many meals as she did before the sewing machine w as conceived iu the brain of IIovvk, More than that, people are much better and more comfortably com-fortably clothed than they used to be. What if the farmers of the east should have obji'i tod to the building of tho I nion Pacific railroad because it w ould bring the unused lands of the western stales within reach of markets? Tin building of that road did increase farms without number, but did that iucrease slToct tho prices of grain? Wo believo not. And following closo on that road, other transcontinental liir-s were built, nil inakiug it possible to prolitably cultivate cul-tivate more land; anil yet it did uot decrease de-crease the price of products or tho volume vol-ume of business done by tho roads al- ready built. Hut the i'"asotiing of the lii inhliriiii is narrow and selfish if in no other way, than iu advocating thut one pari of tho country should bo kept down so that another part can come up, or at least be prevented from going any lower. |