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Show I TO AID IRRIGATION, Dispatches report that Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Is actively Interesting Interest-ing himself In Irrigation Investigation a nil favors nn appropriation of $50,000 by CntigruNS to further tho Investigation Investiga-tion Into this subject. It Is reported that the appropriation will probubly'bo - incilo ami It certainly could not bo inudo for a raoro worthy purpose The proposal Is to expend tho appropriation for two objects: (I) The collection and publication of information regarding the laws and Institutions of tho Irrigated Irri-gated region, on tbolr relation to agriculture, agri-culture, and, (2) tho ptipllcation of HViiilublo Information regaidlu'u the ui of Irrigation waters In agriculture, hh shown by actual experiment of farmers and by experiment nnd Invest!-gallon, Invest!-gallon, and tlto encouragement of further Investigations in tills lino by tho experiment stations ns to the ox-, tent nnd Importnnco in which tho use of water for irrigation lias Increased In that vnBt, region of tho United States, In which tho rulufall is not sufficient suf-ficient for successful agriculture. Irrigation has been in n largo measure mea-sure tho making of tho West what it Is. Through It tho desurtdias been reclaimed re-claimed and formerly large tracts of useless land lire ulado to bear tho neowwUles of life. Without Irrigation, beUbllshed ami fostered by the plo. Hours, Utah would today bo larguly u "howling desert," Instend of tno boau-1 boau-1 1 fill and productive Statu wo Bee. So it Is with other Western Stales which liuye larguly followed nnd profited by the experience of this An invosttgu Hon such as is proposed cannot fail but bo of bunctlt to thuentlro West . and will bo a most worthy expenditure of public mouoy. residing In Utah nnd elsewhere That they uro hltiorly opposed to tho Mormon Mor-mon church U n wull nlitliuiiilcated fact; that the ministers in tho west are constantly mlsieprcntlng tho Saints in Utah Is vtrllv true; that thoy are engaged In Rtirrlug up persecution against the Mormon elders who are traveling .is missionaries throughout the world, Is nlso well understood by fVery Mormon, Jew nnd Gentile throughout the land of tho Saints, It Is nlso n well established irtitli. that DO pur emit of nil mobs raised ngnlnsl tho Mormon Klders nro always headed hy some reverend gcntloiiian(?.) who claims to be a porsohal respreseutativo of that Muster whose mission Was "penco on earth and good will inward man." Then again, wo hellcvo D. 11, Robert', moro than aiiv oiIiit memher of the Mormon church, Is (he person whom thca ministers min-isters have n desire to nttack. Ho is nn acknowledged orntor of great ability, Is logical In his arguments, and those tovereud divines who know him, simply shake like unpen leaves whenever when-ever lirlghnm II. Roberts makes hlsnp-penranco hlsnp-penranco m public, either to defend his own religion or spuxk In opposition to the niiiii-niudi) ctecds of thoduy. These being tho facts in thu case, ns wo sec them, wo linnglno (ho ministers wero exceedingly happy when this splendid opportunity presented itself to appeal to tho prejudices of thu people, and at the same time uso It ns a club with which to punish the man wlmm thoy are nil afraid to meet In any other way. Wo presume that, so far as the ministers minis-ters tiro concerned, this is the real meat in the coconnut. |