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Show HETOH HETCHY VICTORY. The people of San Francisco aro to bo congratulated upon tho passago of tho Hetch Hetchy bill by tho Scunte. It will bocomo a. law as soon as it is signed by tho President, and San Francisco Fran-cisco will then be able to avail itself of the best water supply it can obtain. Tho success of tho bill was threatened by tho agitation of impractical idealists who placed ' esthetic sentiment abovo human necessity. From tho ranks of such sentimentalists tho ultra-cautious cousorvationiets of this country obtain many recruits, and as a result tho development de-velopment of our natural resources is sensibly retarded. Poetry, eonfimcnl, and a lovo of the beautiful have their place in human affairs, af-fairs, but when they aro given such exaggerated importance that they arc permitted to interfere with tho material ma-terial welfaro of millions of human boings they becomo a deplorable superstition. |