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Show THE IRRIGATION DILL. The Irrigation bill passed by the recent re-cent Congress Is a step ln tho right direction but only a step In the riln-belt riln-belt States homesteads were given to hundreds of thousands of farmers and those States hive become veritable granaries for the Nation. IV hy should not tho general Government, now grown stronger nnd mightier than In the first das oC the homestead act, eny to the popl ' Here is land where rain does not fall In nuflle lent quantities for farming, so wo hale taken the waste waters and turned them to use Take the land as a homestead and thus be upon an even footing with thoso who homesteacled In the more faiored States" This would be no flninclal strnln upon n Nation as strong as the United Htates The Increased wealth would within a few oirs more than oompensnte for the outla) As the law now stands' the public money Iniolied should not be called nn appropriation but rather, an Investment Invest-ment by Uncle bam True the settler gota long time and easy terms to piy for Ida land, but he must pay for It, and the Government gets all the money back In tho river and harbor appropriation appro-priation bill It Is never stipulated fiat the people or the communities benefited shill return to the Government nil moneys spent on an) partlculir creek or river Yet it woull bo equally ns Just to mako such requirements In the ono case an in the other with tho argument argu-ment In favor ot building up tho Western West-ern country and thus relieving the overcrowdol condition of the I"ast and furnishing markets for the manufacturers manufac-turers That tho real Importance of the Irrigation Irri-gation problem Is 1 elng gradually better bet-ter understood In the 1'nst Is evidenced by the fnct that some of the strongest supporters of tho hill were found anions tho Congressmen from the Hast, notnbly Mr. Tlrrell of Massachusetts As a further Indication thnt tho business busi-ness men of the Hast nre nwakcnlns to the vast good to come from Governmental Govern-mental aid In reclaiming arid Innds, we print tho following letter received by a prominent cltlren of Utah from one of the largest manufacturers of carriage car-riage In the United States "My Dear Mr. 1 I note by tho morning papers thnt tho Irrigation bill pawed tho House by a rousing majority ma-jority This la a great thing for tho lntermountiln country and Utah ought to derlvo great benefits "There Is no ono more pleased than m)elf that this measure Is now about to become a law It means a new era In tho dcielopment of our country nnd ought to develop Immigration of n superior su-perior type. Tho policy carried to Its logical outcome, means that ln a few )oar" thcro will be no more vvasto places in the Unite t States and that whero It p"ems that tinturo has placed her heel It shall become a g irdcn spot flowing with milk and hone) "I could not resist the temptation to write joti expressing: my gratification at the outcome ot this battle Irrigation goes hand In hand with that other blessing rural free deliver), and both may be said to be children of the common school S)stcm, which has given men the light to recognbe tho breadth of their countr) "s destiny Instead In-stead of being tied to the narrowness of local and selfish vision "After all thcro Is 'some good In Washington' Acceptine my esteem. I remain, yours sincerely, "D M PAlinY, 'Tresldent National Association of Manufacturers When men of such breadth of view tako the Initiative, It will not bo many )oara befeiro public sentiment throughout through-out tho Hast will demand the reclamation reclama-tion nnd bull ling up of tho arid West so as to constitute an outlet for their surplus pcoplo and a market for their wares |