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Show Why Justice Has Not Ilsen Ilone He for. The West has been for years insisting insist-ing that some legislation should be inaugurated in-augurated by Congress looking to the reclamation re-clamation of the arid public lands owned by the government and constituting In some Stites 03 per cent of the area, Ono teason this agitation lias progressed slowly slow-ly has been that the portion of the country coun-try most Interested lu the question is cantliy settled and has not tho Influence Influ-ence lu national councils whldi numbers bIt- Another reason was that It was dim-cult dim-cult for those II' ' In humid States to form any proper conception of the Irrigation Irri-gation question, and the Senators and Uepresentatlves from States having .0 direct Interest In the question have been slow to acquire the Information necessary neces-sary to bring them to a full realltatlon of its importance. It is not specially strange that so many American cltltens khould bo unfamiliar with this subject. It Is on that does not present Itself In a practical way in the portion of our country which contalus nine-tenths of our entire population. While th arid region Is of vast extent. It Is but thinly settled. It Is estimated that under the National Irrigation Act the West will bs capable of sustaining 80,000,000 po-PU- |