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Show THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS. The Indiana Tanner tnkes n irry narrow view of whnt Is conceded to bo one of the greatest question before the American people toda Breaking of the iccent session of the trrlgutlon Congress the Tarmer sn ' Hie tenth National Irrigation congress was lulgely a Jubllitlun convention of Western mm assemble I to celebrate the pnssnge of the national Irrigation act The representative came from all sections of the West-lrrlgallon farmers from ( nlo. rmln and Ni w Mexico fruit Irrlgallnnlils from rlsona nncl southern California and stock raisers who Irrigate line Uriels of alfalfa al-falfa from nshlngton Mc ntntm and t'lnli "Ibe linm- Nntlnnnl Irrigation con gress Is a misnomer The congress Is attends at-tends I l men from Western Slates where fnnnlng Is curried on almost txcluslvclv bv Irrigation Its onl nail innl fenturt Is thai II nlvmstes Onvrrnment nil to Irrigation Irri-gation which Is n national question The lust sentence lu the nbove reveal3 either clenso Ignornncn or venomous spite either of which Is Inexcusable rnttber cost Unit Indiana even there nre hrocul gauge men nnd newspnpera tint see the great intlonnl good that must come from the reclamation nt tho nrll West The) see thc relief that tho movement woull bring lo the overcrowded over-crowded i enters of population They see the well nigh unlimited demand for the wares and manufactures of the factories, fac-tories, shops nnd mills of Ntvv I'tigland They renllo the created wealth that must conic from the millions of fertile acres tint only await the application of molstuic ln short, the real sociologists, sociolo-gists, economists and statesmen of tho Unst welcome the new Irrigation law n a lencflcent meiiuro that shall make homes for tho homeless give better bet-ter homes to countless thousands and ndl million of wealth to our great Nation, nnd nil of this, too without one dollnr of taxation man an) of tho older communities or States The Indiana Tanner should rub the scalea from Its eyes nnd hehol I thc now nnd glorious light that has burst upon the Nilllon |