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Show THINK A BIT Just suppose congress had passed legislation permitting- water power development on public land. "TheatnpoMals6"'that'lt.bad passed pass-ed JegUlatlon permitting pU development develop-ment on vast areas of withdrawn land and had granted relief measures to oil operators la ood faith on certain cer-tain ot these lands. Congress has been playing politics with these two- Qftbationa tor about tea years. If the water power measure had been passed It would now be impossible impos-sible to go ahead with many electrification electri-fication projects which would be using us-ing millions ot pounds ot copper and other metals and our great western mines Instead of standlngj Jdle or nearl,sAxoulcL.be..cmploylngs their ten,s, ofjjvquaa,i;ds,ofjtien,.., If equitable oil measures., had been passed thousands of, wells would now be under way, whero now no drill enn work. Our politicians and statesmen talk construction and employment programs pro-grams and yet not oven a' world war and tho safety of tho nation itself could break tho obstructtoncsts hold on these great undeveloped resources resour-ces of tho west. Ten years wasted, and woruo than nothing dono by theso brlllant law makers or Industry killers which over you like to call them. British authorities said we floated to victory on a Boa of oil. That oil was furnished by the untiring efforts of American oil men In tho faco of 'of endless leglslatlce and departmental departmen-tal handicaps. Oily politicians of tho La Follette Pinchot, ot al stripe have cost this nation dearly and the laboring man la paying the bill today by unemployment unemploy-ment duo to prohibited development. It tho samo policies had been In forco after, the Civil war tbo west would not be settled today. Think a bit. - ' - |