Show Who Vho Owns Them A AS As Judge L. L A. A Hollenbeck said in ill these columns about a year ago we have a fourth-department fourth of g government viz bureau government govern govern- ment This is aptly illustrated by national bureaus and the state bureaus too At Chicago recently Dr Wm Peterson in speaking of water and watersheds said Water Vater has been interpreted as public property belonging belonging belonging be be- longing to the state or the govern govern- ment If this Is correct procedure then the watersheds should be public public public pub pub- lic property The Tribune says this is daring argument and further says It uIt seems revolutionary in a civilization civilization tion which traces its origin back to a country where a la mans man's home is his castle Out here in the basin we know what this revolutionary doctrine means We Va have endured it for twenty five years and felt the burden burden burden bur bur- den heavily for near nearly y fifteen years The Uintah Basin is a wIthdrawn withdrawn withdrawn with drawn area And the main reason reason reason rea rea- son is that we have water and watersheds Green river Is the principal feeder of the Colorado and the Green gets much of its water from this basin from both Utah and Colorado sectors Bureau bosses these government government government govern govern- ment ministers as Attorney General General General Gen Gen- eral Parker it are endeavoring endeavoring endeavoring en en- to make changes that mean revolution We have a right to expect evolution as the result of learned men me working somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where some da day from the doctrines doctrines doctrines doc doc- trines that have hav been put into practical use and to which we wc own so much in making this country Paternalism is the honey that catches us Our real reclamation fund is is not paternalism except I J that we submitted and gave the federal government control over our forests In these arid states forests and reclamation have given en bureau government a big boost Our states have given Iven up their rights to Washington More and more we look to the National CapItal Capital Capital Cap Cap- ital for the final word This places more and still more power in the hands of those whom we ve send to tor r represent us When a supposedly practical man such as Mr Peterson assumes assumes assumes as as- that our watersheds should be made government property whether forested or not we may maywell maywell maywell well wonder what next may be advocated advocated advocated ad ad- by prof professors sors and doctors The entire matter resolves itself it- it self into the proposition of feder feder- Even these savants know that there is a limit Government is for the people governed and Secure the blessings of Liberty Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- erty to ourselves and to our Posterity Posterity Posterity Pos Pos- as the national constitution constitution constitution states it Our state slate constitution constitution constitution con con- says Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty we the people of Utah in order to secure and perI perpetuate perpetuate per per- I the of free free principles government government gov gov- I do ordain and establish this constitution No power could induce us to change these sacred statements that is by vote of the people Yet we see the constant effort of bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau government doing it If these chiefs want to take talce our watersheds watersheds watersheds water water- sheds that which is not already federalized perhaps we better let them have the whole shebang |