| Show SENATOR f T f FAIRBANKS I IM M T T TAt At Billings lie Discussed nt nl Length the Subject Cl of Arid Lands and Irrigation GAVE CAVE REPUBLICANS ALL CREDIT Also Talked on 00 und Iud of or Irous trous rous C I of or Elce Haw h Material M BIllings Hillings Sept 8 sPOilt spent time lb gr greater part lOr of or the theila day ila dl Irrigation Tin flu day 1116 was lK devoted to H is 1 tour lour of oC count county beginning be at OI on the he border of or Montim nud cbs clu tn nt lit this point not luot from cen tee of ot time the state Hate It at Curtri who was WIH n a I member of or Senator Full I II links pari lame cum in its for tor na us on one ot of the early movers mover tu to ld hi to irrigation from room both 8 Senators mitori mid suil Dolliver Stops Slops Hlll for l po o meeting were welt minnie during the elk 1 at the time town towns of or Milt Mile City suid und 1111 the time night was w spent here where h rn n tt largely nit ory sory 01 held 1 Mr Mm to the tha u HI at t length th the effect of or time the net mat Ill Ho I to recalled for r n national Rid Mill by h Carter when ho tn M commissioner of lit it the flue R gals 1111 II oral era I ha In I a I 50 1 und aunt mu or dwell dwellIng el wel I Ilag lag InK nt ul length upon UllOn th thus the general CIUCH mues Ion tion of or Irrigation entered upon u IL dis Ils discussion of or purt In securing I thi of or the tho exist existing bi ing law Jaw On Oil time the latter point ho lio said Ten 1011 years after Senator great IrrIgation to tu the tho attention of till thus A people wo t O 0 haul who with It In n a I uny 11 lie He hal had been beon n It p irl of your YOU citi citizenship for years lie He hud hlll dwelt lucre lieu In tim the tho regions II knew tho the th He I Ic neu the great future futuro that was RII await lug you If I you could only luring bring water lo to the parched soil eoll oll of oe this grost groat cOlin coun country try That who vImo tended th the time Io Unit that lie 1111 le before you here hare In is our president pro ind 1111 the next I of or the he t United States Slate Theodore Roosevelt Roo In him n his very ery er first IRge to 10 time tho United Stales Congress he hp dwelt dell upon tho necessIty of dealing with whim the tho great subject of ml Irrigation mid pointed out omit how hol low U It wax wnM possible to time the of or tho limo United SUReR wi till as not notto notto to 10 draw drav directly upon tIme ti on miry In Washington He Its thought It II hut but Just and that the tho Proceeds proceed of time tho JIM of or these lands Janus should ho bo utilized 1 lot for limo tho purpose of or Irrigating thIs great grOSt country countr I have hlO Just traveled over oer ninny mommy miles of or country whore whole there IH is I no sign In of tho thue habitation of or man but sunder the tho Inspiration of this Hill greet policy which Congress fI enacted Into law InI vl 4 I am nm op optimistic 0 to believe bellese thai thaL in its thus the I 18 yearn lying hying us II there will ho bo hOunds homes occupied by h thousands and tons louis of Cf thousands of energetic American citizens whore there thero me UIO none now Mr Fairbanks nl referred to 10 time the platform on Oil the thc subject of or Irrigation The D which met mot In tim Ht Kt Louis do sic makel clAIm to having ha 1111 ai 11 a thin tImis greet object It U is on of ot the Ih upon which It I prides It edt It now nol I nm am not blaming them for that not nol nt at all 1111 they do 10 mb not apt hlO mommy many mOil opportunities to 10 make claim to the no ac accomplishment of tiny nay r tl govern government ment inet The Time only way 11 they IhlY time can calm gt get FI t n a little modicum m of Is III to 10 lay luy claim to 10 tho achievements of Jr tho the Ho no publican an party larty Art They The wait tin un until til after the t lapse of or ten twenty or nJ y years before they accept what we wo did In three years After fter n a enacted the tho irrigation upon the worn of it ml president a I IJ Democratic J convention the ef or effrontery to claim that Democracy IH III the author of or the great Irrigation policy We Wo know I than that Time The Republican party knows that Ihal tho time record I ord upon this great subject la lit If written and children rhUMell III In the tho ye rs to 10 route wilt will bloss bless time the hll of Theodore smith and tho the genius of or the party for wilt tOil ten It ItH H FaIrbanks I also tho tarIff question contending that tho the policy imite of or free rast material would bo be boril ril dl trous to 10 the wool Industry of or Mon MOil Montana tana tamma without mentioning the tho to to 10 President McKIn leys lys speech ll on reciprocity he hI quoted 1 tho the of ot tho time Buffalo speech and mudded Our quote President In iii In support of or corn com mercial reciprocity It will bp he that Iha they thy do not miot quote nil 1111 that wan aA said saidI by h I the great president noel which II U to H It faIr of his hili upon tipon the They a 1 vital which he hue clearly and most distinctly dl laid loan down and which annot he ime omitted without u a clear perversion of what ho Intended President din did not abandon the Iho protective policy nor did tiel he lie favor wor DemocratIc reciprocity y Ho lie reciprocity which hl h the Ihl pro principles prInciple not that which overthrows It Is g only another er Ir nAme namo for feo f o trade t Ill 11 III In his at lit Buffalo Pre President McKinley mundo lundo perfectly dour clour th Ih reciprocity which he hO favored would not nOI Imperil our home Industries To reproduce what he lie said by I those tho portions of or his hl which ex cx expressed x pressed n II regard for the tho pro vrn of or our home production l is 11 to convey conty to 10 the tho p ople nn an Im as to what ho lie verily meant distinctly dl sold said |
