Show PUBLIC MONEY WELL SPENT irrigation work of vast importance to the country I 1 hae a notion that this govern ment cannot spend money to a better purpose or produce better results than by providing irrigation works in such arid places as those of the southwest ern portions of the united states and I 1 confidently look to see the day when the national appropriations for alon will go hand in hand with those for navigation rivers and harbors fortifications and the army and the navy while all these are necessary tion is also necessary and while they make i possible national ex istance and increase in population and wealth irrigation makes them certain congress can in my opinion do noth ing that will so surely add to our national prosperity as the expenditure of large sums in irrigation works governor pardee in einset magazine |