Show ROCKEFELLER HELD fiELD UP AS AN EXAMPLE Spokane Aug D Rocke Roche ollor feller as a and as an ex cx example ample for the nation to copy Wl heM held up lip to lo the kindly consideration of tho National Irrigation congress this af afternoon with the advice that the life Ilfe of oC the old magnate he be studied as a business The newest exponent of Ro is Dr W V J McGee secretary of the theIn Inland In I an d Waterways Commission Comm i asi on of Washington D C Dr frankly Baht he be admired John D Rockefeller Ho He said suid that though much sneered at al the president Of the tho Standard Ollis Oil is a man among millions and yet ct though billionaire I he be there Is no reason why a mil million million lion oilier men cannot bo be as su success ess essul ul as he Dr McGee was speaking of water as asa asa a thing which In value nuo to the human huma l race In to all other nOCI 3 sarles Is as to ono one IJo Ho urged the conservation of on three par irrigation and trans And yet el said he with water waler thus valuable and necessary to tho human race John D charges l less ss for a gallon alIon o of oil all after It has through man many processoR processes than a spring springwater water concern hoes docs for a gallon gutton of mineral minerai water t that hal has n not been boen treated In any way was wasI I regard Mr ir as at al once a generous public benefactor and a wise and business sll man Ile Ho Hohas has had all nh the opportunity l In the world to exact au an exorbitant toll tol from the public and yet ho charges less for I oIl than is 15 p paid ld every lay day for corn com cornI comI I mon water walor I I admIre the man and I Ij II j I say Ray that the United States govern mont fluent could no helter better than profit profil by br thio example of a business man mun so iO na as astuto tuto and who so conserves na natural tural resources this lila portIon or of Dr Mc McGees Ic Gees speech did not tho ap applause that thal followed his address In general concerning the tho conservatIon ol of natural energies chief of the States caused perhaps the chief sensation of the tho day Ia beginning with will a ovation given givon him when lie he took look the rostrum end endIng lag Ing with a similar ovation and three cheers and a tIger when lie he ended Ho took occasion to denounce the tho a ac activities of oC the hue waler power trust l which he said though still In Its Ils In inception to lo overshadow all allOh Oh oilier r trusts Ho char charged ed that the Irrigation con i I I gross is 18 being made the tho tool of the corporate interests whoso whose agents are 1 being made members or of important for the purpose of the actIvity or Of the con congress And said Raid ho w I 1 believe I could point out one genial and urbane gon en tiernan an attorney for the interests who Is here now George S Long representing tIc tho of the northwest himself in Sr Sc connected with a big concern aU attIc that the interests of the are Inimical to those thoo of the consumer IJo He said ald that the tho hUll berman Is only onh iving t to a health healthy demand and that lint will III begin in earnest when the demand mum reached the high price point Ii T r Allen United States distrIct forester elicited when he appealed for safe and aud sane lumbering anti for the conservation of water Addresses on this subject also were WIC made mado by E 8 M I 1 of Wit Wisconsin tumid and E 3 I P Campbell Camphell of J N Teal Tea or of the joint conserva ion committee made an appeal for forthe I the thc mont of the scope o of wat at on cli the Pacific coast lie He pointed out the possibilitY of making navigable the ColumbIa river for Cor a distance of 2500 by applying the cost o of a single battleship to lo the work He declared that river trans transportation transportation Is the greatest of rate adjusters J E 13 Chilberg of the tho exposition at Se Sc aUle attle was n a speaker in the afternoon lIt lie Invited the delegates to lo attend the o exposition and concluded with an appeal for reforestation of the for Cor the protection of the streams Alexander McPherson secretary of the tho Idaho State Board of tural lural inspection described the method In vogue In his state for Irrigation A resolution was offered which will willbe be acted upon tipon Thursday urging state legislatures to remit a part of the taxes o of farmers who plant trees along the roads adjoining their r property Politics did not enter the lobby dis discussions today loday but much comment was heard for and against the lion which will bo be proposed ed b by Secre tal Hooker of tim hoard or of control asking a bond hond issue of five billion dollars b by the national government to lo tobe be loaned to finance Irrigation pro projects projects This afternoon the tho commercial bodies of Spokane gave n a parade II of the commercial develop moot of the northwest The parade passed a huge hinge reviewing stand occupied pied b by the delegates Two other pa parades parades rades of similar character will he be gIven en before the Iud end o of the week |