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Show UTAH DAILY h k The St. Louie platform boldly declare that the national irrigation act wu a measure framed by a Democrat," and that It was passed in the house by a vote the majority of which wus Democratic." As J resident Roosevelt owea his iiopularity in the west largely to what he has done for irrigation, the declaration in the St. Louis platform makes a sharp issue between the parties, which will doubtless be the subject of an animated debate throughout the campaign. Of the irrigation movement from it humble beginning down to the present hour, 1 can say, lu the language of the old chronicler: "All of what I suw, and part of which 1 was. The ninth irrigation congress, held at Chicago in 19UU, declared unequivocally for a system of national irrigation works. There was no attempt to frame a ineusure. This wus to be left to the veterans of the cause who belonged to the national legislature, llut in order to secure political backing, it became necessary to see that irrigation should have a standing in the platforms of both the great parties. The inductive of the movement was promptly directed to this end, with gratifying results. The Republican national convention held in 1hlladelphiu in June, 1900, declared as follows: "In further pursuance of the constant policy of the Republican party to provide free homes on the public domain, we recommend adequate national legislation to reclaim the arid lands of the United States, preserving the control of the territories of water for irrigation to the respective states : and territories." The Democratic nutional convention held at Kansas City in July, 1900, spoke as follows: "We favor an Intelligent system of improving the arid lands of the west, storing the waters for the purpose of irrigation, and the holding of such land for actual settlers. These party expressions were couched in very general terms, yet they distinctly committed both parties to a new policy of Internal improvement Were they made in good faith, or were they merely designed to catch the votes of the arid region? i- M I '1 f J. ' A - i t Vi l mr . . I ?: : I j v i , . ,"i. A .j !t . i :r. ' ' .1 . i , ,i : . I .i r . i .1 t? . i : I s T-i- i H r'i. : I ; : - JOURNAL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1904.. 17, DEMOCRACYS SERVICE TO ARID WEST t I STATE i 5 H; ! ' !M;.! This question could be answered events. Hence, only by subsequent events were awaited with anxious Interest by all the veterans in the grand army of national Irrigation who had war from Lexfought the nine-yea- rs ington to Yorktown from Salt Lake to Chicago. The flfty-slx- th congress assembled for its Anal session In December, 1900, after the second election of McKinley. REPUBLICANS FORGET. Neither in his December message, nor in his second Inaugural address, delivered on March 4. 1901, did the Republican president make the slight est reference to national irrigation. Evidently the irrigation plank of the Philadelphia platform had produced no serious impression on his mind. Nor is there any evidence that it had made the slightest impression on the minds of Republican senators or representatives, except in the most general way. At any rate, none of them sought to take the initiative In putting the platform into practice. DEMOCRATS REMEMBER. How about the Democrats? At least three of them were busy with the effort to translate the abstract principles of the Kansas City platform Into con crete legislation looking to the early reclamation of mid lands. These three were Messrs. Rhafroth and Bell of Colorado, and Newlands of Nevada. On December 3. 1900, the very first day of the session. Mr. Shafrotb introduced house bill 1230, entitled: , "A bill for the construction of reservoirs In the arid land states and for the disposal of public lauds reclaimed thereby." This was the first comprehensive measure, aiming nt a general scheme of reclamation rather than at any specific project. It authorised the secretary of the Interior, not only to investigate, but actually to construct reservoirs and canals, and appropriated 613,000.-00- 0 for the purpose. On December 17. 1900, Mr. Newlands Introduced a bill for the disposition and settlement of arid lands, and for the construction of reservoirs and necessary hydraulic works fo rthe storage of water on and near the Humboldt river. Nevada." Early in January. 1901, Mr. Bell Introduced a bill "for the diversion of the Gunnison river Into the Uncoin pahgre valley. Colorado." Finally, on January 2(1, 1901. a measure was introduced which became the broad foundation stone of the great policy of national irrigation. It was a stone from the Democratic qunrry. hewn nnd shaped by Democratic hands. The measure referred to was the original Newlands bill, drafted and yresented by the distinguished repre sentative from Nevada, now senator from that state. Mr. Newlands wns a prominent figure In the first national Irrigation congress, held at Salt Lake In 1901. lie was a member of the first nntloual executive committee of the movement. And from that day to this his relation to Irrigation work on the floor of congress hns been clear and unmistakable. The original Newlands hill differed from all Its predecessors In Its one central thought. Thl central thought was that the arid lnnds should be made to reclaim themselves without taking a dollar directly from the treasury. or Increasing the burden of taxation upon any Individual or Interest In the length and breadth of the United States. The hill should be so framed as to make Its operation automatic, comprehensive and complete, to guard against Improvident projects, to prevent land monopoly, to secure homes for actual settlers, and to promote the division of the large tracts of land which under the unfortunate administration of state and national laws. the farming have been created in the west, Us to be perpetrated upon Unified States community of the entire author said. that a competition as involving and most and was striking another It of the crush industry would farming maxim Jeffersonian instance of the West and East." He Equal rights for all and special priv- a the great central quoted freely from Republican newsileges for none." For it provided by of the needs all for the papers of the East and central West, stroke single arid states and territories, yet con- protesting against its passage. Newferred no special advantages on any It is plain now, first, that the one of them. This plan united the lands bill was of Democratic origin; towest almost instantly. "It was day- second, that the West was brought atall after only in its support break everywhere." gether President Roosevelt lent. his influ- tempts to destroy Its fundamental Republican ence to the measure and promptly character by various signed it when it caine to him from amendments had been defeated; third, that it was the deliberate purpose of congress. But the measure which he supported the great Republican leaders In the and signed was the Newlands bill. House of Representatives to repudiate framed by the irrigation plank of the Philadela measure was It u Democrat, pased by the senate phia platform, while the Democrats vote and sought to comply with a similar plank a by both In passed by the house by a vote, the In the Kansas City platform, are facts spirit. These majority of which wras Democratic," letter and in of history which cannot be successGAL 2 IRRIGATION i Iri the St. Louis fully controverted. set as forth precisely non-partis- an platform. The Newlands bill, as originally introduced, contained many important creprovisions besides the one for the ation of a reclamation fund from the proceeds of land sales, to be used over and over again until the last acre of arid land susceptible of irrigation shall have been reclaimed. Stress is not laid upon the other provisions here because they do not go so clearly to the question of the paternity of the law. For Instance, the plan of making the water right appurtenant to the land was one of the features of the platform Irrigation adopted by the Chicago congress. There were other provisions which were vital to the success of the law, but the keystone In the arch was the Idea of a reclamation fund obtained from the proceeds of land sales. This it was which united the west, overcame the opposition of the east, and made the early and complete triumph of the movement possible. And, as has already been said, this plan was found in the Newlands bill and nowhere else. Hon. George II. Maxwell, executive chairman of the national irrigation association, may be regarded as a disinterested witness on the question under discussion. True, he Is a Republican and has done yoeman service for his party in former years, but he la first of all a national Irrlgationlst, and he was in a position to know precisely what occurred while the now triumphant measure was pending before congress. In addressing the house committee on the irrigation of arid lands, February 7, 1901, Mr. Maxwell spoke as follows: "I wish to speak of the Newlands bill. I think a good name for that bill would be the omnibus bll. Under this bill the government can begin con struction immediately and I believe along lines which will remove every reasonable objection to the govern ment undertaking the great work of bringing about the reclamation of the arid lands. The first point which it seems to me is important In favor of the Newlands bill is that under It everything can be done which is suggested to be done by each of the other bills now before this committee. Mr. Maxwell proceeded to discuss the bill In detail and to commend each of Its several features as offering a complete solution of the subjects to which they applied. Has It not now been sufficiently . demonstrated that the present nation- al irrigation law was a child of Democratic parentage? It cannot be claimed. of course, thHt only Democrats desired to see the triumph of national Irrigation. On the other hand, it cannot be successfully disputed that the triumph came about through Democratic initiative nnd that the actual measure which finally passed was. In Its most essential features, a product of Dem- ocratic statesmanship. The measure received the earnest of such supoprt and collaboration sterling Democrats as Shafroth and Bell of Colorado, King of Utah. Glenn of Idaho and Edwards of Montana, and of Senator aPtterson and Teller of Colorado, Dubois and Heitfeld of Idaho, Rawlins of Utah, Clark and Gibson of Montana and Turner of Washington. REPUBLICANS REPUDIATE PLAT FORM. 1 hile the Newlands bill was under discussion on the floor of Congress It wns strongly opposed by almost every Republican leader In the House of Representatives. Among those who assailed It was Air. Moody of Massachusetts, now attorney general: Air. Cannon of Illlnos. now speaker of the House; Air. Payne of New York, now Republican leader on the floor: Mr. Dalxell of Pennsyl vnnla. of the rommlttee on rules: Air. Ray of New York, chairman of the committee on judiciary; Air. Hepburn of Iowa and General Grosvenor of Ohio. I quote a few of their utter ances: Mr. Hepburn If I were not one of the most humble nnd polite men in this house. I would take the liberty of saying that the proposition involved in this bill is the moat Insolent attempt at larceny I have ever seen embodied In a legislative proposition." Air. Aloody I look with grave apprehension upon the plan to reclaim the arid land of the West." Mr. Cannon "In my judgment the pledge of the platform would be substantially the settlement by Congress I have indicated. by the legislation (Cession of the arid lands to the States). If it would not be. then I would not stand by that plank In the platform." General Grosvenor "If this scheme can be cnrrled into execution. I would not give five cents on the dollar ten year hence for all the beet sugar stock this side of the Alissourl river. Why. sir, the evidence Is that the beet sugar men of Utah. California and Colorado can manufacture beet sugar almost a cent a poyid cheaper than can be done withouAhe application of Irrigation. General Grosvenor spoke of this bill as proposing "a great national wrong" a few localities might have been Inaugurated in every state and territory west of the one hundredth meridian. Other countries find useful ways of expending their surplus capital for the benefit of their own people. For In- William E Anaconda stand. ard look beyond party platforms and candidates to the elements which control the deeper tendencies of parties, and so shape the events of the Immeasurable future. I believe a great struggle Js coming between mankind and money-kind between those who believe the earth and the fullness thereof belongs to all, and those who stand for special privileges. My faith Is In the Democracy. It Is the friend of the West, staunch and tried and true. It Is the only party which recognises that there la yet much to be done In building our civilisation among these valleys and mountains, and along the western shore of the continent. It has agreed to stay with us and light the battle through on lines which will preserve our undeveloped resources for the highest good of the It has kept Its promises in passes. the past. I believe it will keep its promises in the future. I am for the republic as against the tive democracy to iir.j republicanism. stance, Canada lends money to farmto communities start canneries, ing creameries and other small Industries closely related to the soil. That is one reason why 50,000 of the beat young 0ne lr. KhjTXtw Uf men of the United Btates crossed the each night for two wkl . Canadian border last year to make in my Teens' again," homes In a foreign land. T' ner of Dempseytown write, Pa. The Republican party does not hesibest in the world for tate to guarantee the Interest on the and Bowels. PuMy VegeU8t bonds of private railroads in the Philippine Islands, but has no money to Wipe. Only 53c. at spend in opening up highways Into Drug Store. portions of the West now Inaccessible home-makers. to , Go t0 I have considered my course In the 8tat. Co. for complete dethe with single present campaign of Note and Composition sire to use my humble influence for U the largest ultimate good of the West Text Books for the "ebw 8tah On September 15, 1901, Theodore and of the country. I have tried to Academy. Roosevelt succeeded to the 'Presidency. Prior to this date the Newlands bill had been introduced in the House by lu author and in the Senate by Mr. Hansbrough. It had been widely discussed and was generally approved by the friends of Irrigation. Its principles had been approved by both the House and Senate committees. . It had not come up for passage because of the shortness of the precedihg session, which ended on March 4. It was again introduced in the Fifty-seven- th in the Congress, by Mr. Newlands House, December 3, 1901, and by Air. Hansbrough In the Senate, December IN CONNECTION WITH THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE AND COLO4, 1901, and after full consideration by a committee of Western Senators and RADO MIDLAND, THE BURLINGTON HAS THREE GREAT TRAINS Congressmen and after unsuccessful AND SERVICE OF THE made DAILY TO THE EAST, WITH EQUIPMENT efforU had been by Senator Warren and Representative Mondell of HIGHEST GRADE. Wyoming to amend It In ways that would have destroyed Its character as a national and public measure. It was pushed on to triumphant passage, aidFROM OGDEN, 7:45 A. M. DAILY; FROM DENVER 2:00 P. M. ARRIVE ed on the one hand by President IN ST. JOSEPH 9:30 A. M. KANSA8 CITY 11:40 A. M. ARRIVE IN ST Roosevelt, who had supported national Irrigation In a vigorous message, and LOUIS 6:50 P. M. on the other by the Democratic Conwhich passed gressional committee, strong resolutions in Its favor as i measure of needed domestic devolop FROM OGDEN, 515 A. M. DAILY; FROM DENVER, 4:15 P. M. ment ARRIVING OMAHA 6:45 A. M, CHICAGO 8:00 P. M. In the Senate there was no opposl NOTE: The daily standard through slsspor 8alt Laks City to St. Lsu'w tlon. For years its strong Western loavos Salt Lako at 3:15 p. m. Daylight rido through sconic Colorado, armembership had been potential in Denver 4:00 p. m. with desirable stopover intervals at Denver until there. The sentiment riving fighting shaping ground was In the House, where the departure of the eastern Express from Denver at 10:35 p. m., arriving Sb Democrats fairly took possession of Louis second morning. the bill, and Shafroth of Colorado and Underwood of Alabama, by motions shortened debate, and, forcing votes on the various sections when the FROM OGDEN, 7:00 P. M. DAILY, DENVER, 10:35 P. M, ARRIVING Republicans were playing for delay, LINCOLN, OMAHA, 8T. JOSEPH AND KAN8AS CITY NEXT AFTEforced the bill to a final vote before RNOON; ST. LOUI3 AND CHICAGO THE SECOND MORNING FROM the time limited byfthe committee on rules, which, If passed, would have DENVER. thrown the bill Into the limbo of un Through tourist sleepers leave Ogdon at 7:00 p. m. for Chifeago and Boston ovary Friday and Saturday finished business. All this Is graphically described In the Washington evening, for St. Louis every Friday evening with daylight rids over the Rio Grande through icenie Times of June 14, 1902, as follows: Colorado; also at 7:00 p. m. Thursdays for Chicago and Boston via Rio Grande Colorado Midland. The Western Republicans joined Diverse routes to the east ard allowed with these rates but the Burlington with its own rails and its hands with a majority of the Demoown thorough train service between Denver and St. Louis, between Denver and Chicago can offer crats In the House yesterday, overthrew the leaders and by a vote of 14$ with its own railroad as groat a variety of tours as can bs offered by any other combination of to 55 passed the Newlands irrigation routes. There is education in travel. It is an education to rido a thousand miles over the Burlingbill. An unsuccessful effort was made ton Routs. No tour of the east is complete without the Burlington Route as a part of It. (o talk the measure to death by offer ing a number of amendments and dis Mr. Undercussing them at lenth. wood, however, sounded a warning, railing the attention of the lrrigatlon-lst- s Address the undersigned for the most desirable rates, routes a nd train service. Describe your trip that under the rule adopted by the to me; let me advise you the lowest rates and the greatest possible privileges. House for the consideration of the bill a vote must be reached before the adjournment or the bill would die. If, he said, when 5 o'clock came there was not a quorum present, the bill could 79 WEST SECOND SOUTH ST. GENERAL AGENT. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. not be acted upon. After that the lr rigation men took control of things and proceeded to carry motions limitToing debate on the amendments. wards the close discussion was limited to 30 second. The committee arose and reported the bill to the House. Air. Ray demanded the yeas and nays on the passage of the measure. The result was favorable to the measure 146 to 55." Would the bill have passed without the President's support? No man can say definitely, for I for one give him full credit for what he did in behalf of our cause. But what, after all, did he do? He gave the support of his great office to a measure framed by a Democratic statesman, fought and reviled by the great leaders of his own party, and de pendent for its passage upon a patri otic and conscientious Democratic ml nority bent upon making good Its sol emn pledge to the West. Here is the vote in the House of Representatives: FOR. Democrats 73 1 GREAT TRAINS Chicago and St. Louis Special No. 6 St. Louis and Chicago Special No. 2 Eastern Express No. 4 Low Rates Every Tuesday and Friday R. F. NESLEN Agricultural College of Utah The Scientific Technical College of the State s'Jv Populists jg Republicans Total .. 69 . Democrats . Republic, ins T11 146 AGAINST. ....... 13 42 55 And so n Democratic gave a majority vote for the minority bill. But admitting that the President's support wrung from a sullen and hntjP majority some of the vote which made national Irrigation an accomplished fact, does it follow that the arid region should go Republican because the President iwparated himself from the leaders of his party on this question and supported a Democratic measure Doe one Republican swallow make a Democratic summer? And are Democrats on this ground to be called upon to support him for as Parker, who stands on a platform confirmatory of national irrigation and pledging his nnd the pnr-J- B best efforts to further promote MILITARISAI OR IRRIGATION WHICH? The Republicans ha spent $r,oo -nno.nao on the Philippine islands and are plunging forward with their dream of military empire nt extravagant cost. Think what 3600.nno.nnn .nil1l1 have done for arid America. 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