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Show PLANS FOR ANOTHER I RAID. i j Not satisfied with the $107,000,000 j being spent by the government on the questionable Boulder Dam project, certain California interests are making mak-ing plans for another raid on the public pub-lic treasury, according to the Chicago Tribune. When the dam is completed n aqueduct will be needed to carry the water to the land it is supposed to irrigate, and California voted a $200,-1 $200,-1 000,000 bond issue for the purpose. I Now it is said the bonds cannot be sold, so it is proposed that they be unloaded on Uncle Sam. Whether the promoters of this scheme will be able to get away with it remains to be seen. It is difficult to understand why the government should continue to finance fin-ance irrigation projects when the country has more farm land already than can be utilized profitably. While hundreds of millions are being spent to increase the surplus of farm land, other hundreds of millions are being squandered in a futile effort to reduce the surplus of farm crops. But that is the way of government in business and the taxpayers pay and pay. |