| Show opposition TO irrigation TOE THE springfield massachusetts of sept has baa an editorial relating to the irrigation congress Con gresa recently rec antly held in this city it depre votes the advisability of bringing so much more isore laud land into cultivation in with the farming lands wm competition petition now DOW under the plow it says that the great increase in crops sure to follow 7 increased acreage will materially affect prices of agricultural products owing to the abundance of last year could not obtain farmers living Ve reals er eals prices for their produce this fact the Be republican publican says is for anxiety to boom certain the gotten wt tn in states and territories and to attract to the arid belt emigration should should the irrigation project be de elded on as practicable the general government gove 03 ent will be expected to per tf orm WO most st of the work it will be asked to locate water supplies survey A 2 and cana canals Is and prepare all ashe be engineering specifications the fe Jre publican contends that public opinion will oppose these thes e demands its great Is tb tbt it the water supplies may all into the bands of corporate owner vp owing to the immensity ien sity of the laber faber to be performed wy in a general way the is the whole irrigation scheme as by the salt lake congress a tw days daye ago it Is opposed especially wo the coding ceding 0 of f the arid lands by the to the states and d government an federal ye oral deral Tri tories is in which they are located th e article closes es with the following the iho objections to the plans are that it ait will ho be a wide departure from precedent to these thase states sod that it Is relinquishing sovereignty properly belonging to kh the nation n and others equally obvious ass arut the real rea objection lies against the of th these ese lands at all which beans seans an increase of products auces of y aking supply taking one ch our present b another ts is barge forger than there acena been 11 market 12 for at prices tory ory to the farmer such arguments in opposition to seem to us puerile and sense jew asto As to the alleged departure from were not swamplands swamp lands ceded itt in the man manner nor outlined by the um congress pertaining to arid lands land A nd as to increasing our farm products political economist can look surely barely no upon that as a an n evil I 1 Farn farmers aers may not secure large prices but they will have at all events a sufficiency of tood food and raiment where these are prosperity and plenty in a material eib can scarcely be lacking on ta abe J theory farming in ahe united states ought at once to be greatly restricted and rao no more land be placed under cultivation |
