Show RECLAMATION WORK IS TO BE DISCUSSED Spokane Aug an and opponents of the Roosevelt policIes I pertaining to national forestry and reclamation work worl will draw time the lines hues I I sharply sharp at al the meeting or of the National congress bore hore during time tho I of August 9 11 There is 15 already alread every that the movement whIch b began with the tho massage oft hue ho I act In 1902 will be at from aU all sides under time tho guise guiso or of economy the chIef thero Is which justified the continuance of so 50 broad a policy ot of public improvement Friends of oC ho he movement in the west and where the hene effects of the tho lion projects are arc In evidence point to the tho fact that I WillIe while the tho work Is comparatively new and largely experimental the reclamation reclamation I tion service has hns not the record of a single failure In tIme the numerous plants I undertaken and Involving a total ex cx of T They er arc aro their forces and wIll resist any attempt which mIght lead to the tho of the policies enacted by Secretary the acute stage has been reached 15 evidenced hv by an authorized statement from Arthur seCT secre tm tars of the board of control of time tho sos sev National Irrigation congress as follows Many lany Indications poInt to time the fact lint thIs Is i a crItIcal time in the his history history tory of the National IrrIgation con congress gross gress and in the his history torr of th the national irrigation In Iii fact the sante thing ma may bo be said concerning the prInciples for Cor whIch this organization lion tion preservation of forests the storage of the tho floods Ito reclamation of the d deseri and the tho homebuilding of the nation That the Roosevelt polIcies will ho 10 hoon on omi trial at the comIng sessIons is n a conclusion leached from a tion of tIle tho events that thal have become sinGo the last meeting of this hod Tho Ilie supporters of the national movement began hegan to see the tho realization of their hopes In the lie pas sage of the reclamation act in 1902 and nad under the leadership of the Father of Irrigation tho work has been progressing the lie last seven years The searchlight of criticism Is now nots turned upon the plans plaits and tho policies established who have hac followed time the courSe ot ee in n the last few fer months foresee meet at a most une time though that the lie seventeenth congress time the most critical period sluice Its or organ gan iza Some Somo or of ho attacks on the thc administrations will raise these thies questions Have HaYe they ther fulfiller fulfilled the hopes of those who have hao been responsible for fOl their existence Are Aro they making a arIcher richter rIcher happier bettor land a mOle moie prosperous and contented people throughout that vast area aroa on once co la Ia labeled The Great American Desert Are tho thies worthy of that support and amI endorsement necessary to Insure con continued continued progress along the lines Jines on which work Is already progressing or h have lo time tho governments efforts 3 In his direction been heen at fault Eating lating a in the tho activities of those bureaus of the to Lo which this work worle has hils been entrusted entirely upon the activity of the tho friends or of the tho which have In Inthe time the past received the endorsement of at this hod bony It 11 Is predicted that this phase alone will make the hue congress famous and lucre thero are arc ninny IndIcations that Its action on the foregoing coming coining at the time it Il does docs will make the coming coining sessions or of tho ho Irrigation not only tho most noted In its hl history tory but the momentous in results No other InterpretatIon can be put upon the in I terest and the Importance I whIch is beIng aU attached ached to this lila organ Other questions which will come he be before fore time the con congress gross lii in a striking man maim manner aol ner are Shall the lie government policies re the endorsement of this congress 01 shall shah material chango In them ho hmo demanded Is this great greal national movement of prodding homos for rail mil millions lions of our people to continue om 01 Is IsIt isit It to lo be chocked amid tUrned a |