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Show Oil! LAMI Ijn.tTIDV Tub New York yAtnhu Sun l.a unlertakento'sltdown" on th rug. gesllona male by Ihu lata Irrigation I'ongrrai It main protest I agahut giving Ilia Miveral HUles nndTerrl torlca of the West any)elll Juris He-Hon He-Hon over their arid lands, Itquoh the caso of the government' reding of awam and onHlowd land to certain KtAte for theitK)saof reclamation. According to 1(4 testimony Ihencv-rorth Ihencv-rorth all the available land In the Htatea m favored became awampy or ovciflowed, nl hunlrosta of thou ind of nereaentero'l upon thl bvl lame very fruitful fnn without any rrdamatloii save three-ply barb fiucv around them. While all thl might In trim of the land named, when used a guld to thedlstrlliutlon of tho arid land of the West, It la entirely lnafllcable. Tak. lug Utah for an exam le, If overy foot ofunelalme.1 linl In the Territory wcredeclircdftrll without iiuallllca-lion, iiuallllca-lion, It would not lu any way stretch tho popular r lechiih-al deRlnltliin of rid land. And wu believe thl rule woul I apply pntty generally throughout through-out the Wett. There are, to lea sure, vast tract of grating land which producu a oertaln kind of desert gr-u without Irrigation. Hut without Irrigation Ihey coul I not utidvr any circumstance he used for ftuy other purposo than grailug, and would, therefore, bo might after by email liolden lu no iru-o without tho ho of bringing water onto Ihcm. Aa far ft liny extensive land grab are ooncrerned, whloli alone would make thu aoll desirable un ler Its prea-eut prea-eut condition, Hi plain spltlt of the Irrlgttlou Congresa was ogaliut anything any-thing of Ihateort nnd It ao expressed Itself. A clear majority of that liudy waa In favor ot limiting all private kraut to !0) aire, nnd worignt that thla expression wat not unbodied lu the resolution aa Anally adopted. Wo have not the aparu to oleihaul the oWi varloua endeavor lo Justify It -otloti but here 1 ft passage that louche Un the uetllnii which I uf more than ordinary algnlflcantit "Hut tba second enVt of such land lavs a lnols, oloiirlr mlclilvous The aeoond aeo-ond etTeet la that Ian I really arl I are taken over by tho Mala en I a part if the will tea vlly lrrlgita.1 by work orthe. aorl deacrll-e-l by Hi promoter of the grant hills. Ho far as lheo works are of genuine ntttlty ihy are likely tola in. lei by ..llsllsl. an I sto.k com-i-anlei. Tliey, too, may Ih, llkene.1 lo railways, not only In msunltu le, bat In inglnccrlng character. UHin tbo land thy resell lby isinfer an enormous Increase In-crease In lalue and this I none thole In addition to the wealth of the rltate b-imtiso b-imtiso It gn Into Ilia prlvato oeket or the Indlvldaal who 1 ul their luomr into Ilia enterprise." ' This "sicMiideir.it" here dncrlUd waa not lu any aenso Hi puri-oeu of thecongreu. Had Ulnenao. It would have been very decidedly -'lalsohlav-oua." The Idea of likening vast ei heme of hud monoily to railroad tntirprl lathe most consplcuoua fal-Ucy fal-Ucy whU h Hie tVun haa (risen ua on tho Irrigation (Uotloii. Monoioly liirallroadlsuldliig, whtlolthaiiuany evil It llkev. Ise haa lu return of good to Iho public llcellea this, tor Iho result re-sult of rnllroal mouo-oly there la a romedy, for monopolized UntI tlurul none, aivo tint of revolution. The building of rillroad, wllh n monopoly of transportation n a n cnumipiencc, I )etonoof the great aymhoU or rog ree-a, anl Is a accurate an lud.x at ollilo of the advance of clvllUatloi,, The aggregation of land Into euurmoua irlvateholdlugs l,onthe other hand, ai perfect an sxamplo of retrogretlon esthete tlrneaatTurd. It la a aureand direct iun toward UrUrhm. Tho, grtatbaslaof American ilvlllxitlon it pirioiiat lnJciiudenco, mil whtru I Unit irlnclplo so ttrongl) foilltlt-l as In Iho absolute ownership ofprlvalu landhol lings? On thl qutVlon wo aiy moat tm-Ihatlcallyllmt tm-Ihatlcallyllmt ratlur than havo this Wetrn Territory plastired oyer with enirmoui rlvato grant though,1 it wero the only aible mean mailable to bring Ihcm under cultivation, Ihey would lirtler lay Idle and barren for a hundred )cors, jro vldi-dlhaVwhoiithiy weio reolalinid a proar an) t.jultallo dlatrll ml . woull naiilt, Thero aro a greit mine hom Am.rlcan who might ir n t prhiUp.o, but it It th u b whlih thla country can ever olliln lh full iirto of It being .r Ita loaalte reAlnea and piwrr. The land I In Ilia til") course, ol nature tho iicopl a bulwark against tyranny and enslavement, anl when they losa It Ihey are Ult on step from larpetual hoitdie. |