Arizona republican., 1895-09-22

Nevada have had to contend is the un- suitableness of the common law rule concerning riparian rights to the con ditions of climate and rainfall existing on the Pacific coast. I remember very well how in California nine years ago when great irrigating enterprises were projected the decision in Lux against Miller discouraged them. I remember how out of the doors of the supreme court room there stepped an evil presence and said: 'I am the ghost of English common law. come from a land where drouth is seldom known, land where the rains never cease to fall and the waters never cease to flow, and where the owner of land has the right to have flow past his door unused and unuseful all the waters that have flowed in that same channel since Caesar invaded Britain
 The law established for a land of per petual clouds shall be the law for a land of perpetual sunshine There it was the perfection of human reason
 here it shall be the acme of folly There it was justice-here it shall be l injustice. There it was a blessing
 here 1t shall be blight Upon all
 this sunny and fruitful land I bring
 the desolation of riparianism. Upon I her productive plains I cry the curse
 of Lear upon his daughter: If thou
 did'st e'er design to make this crea-
 ture fruitful, dry up in her the organs
 of increase, into her womb convey
 sterility.'"
 Such would have been the effect of
 riparianism in California, such would 1 be its effect in Arizona, and I find an
 all-suf1cient reason for desiring state
 hood-if there were none other-in the
 fact that only fas state will we have
 the power to make the rule Of prior
 useful appropriation of water part of i our organic law. (Cheers)
 But, ladies and gentlemen, am not
 here to lecture you upon subjects
 which you have ably and eloquently discussed at Albuquerque. It is my duty and privilege rather to welcome you to our, Aztec mounds and our all
 falfa fields, to our ancient aqueducts
 and our modern apricot and orange
 orchards, to the ruins of empires that puzzle the antiquarians' research,
 and the promise of an empire that fires the pioneers thought, I welcome
 you to the wide sweep of emerald
 fields, to the purple bloom of vine yards, to the golden gleam of orchards, to the oleanders and roses and lilies,
 to the lavender tinted mountains veined with gold, to the electric cars
 and electric lights and arbored ave
 nues of our city, and to the homes
 and hearts of those who believe that
 the United States of America is the
 best country on earth, (Cheers) that
 Arizona is the best part of the United
 States, (Cheers) and that our Phoenix
 is the best of Arizona. Great ap-
 plause3
 MT. Fitch's welcoming speech was responded to by Judge Emery, of Kan
 sas who for brief period spoke of the hospitality shown the delegates by the people of Phoenix. His address
 was received by continuous applause c. R. Moses, chairman of the nation
 al executive committee, next ad- dressed the audience He dwelt on
 the irrigation problem and concluded } with complimentary remarks on the l hospitality of the citizens of Phoenix A. c. McGruder, of Oklahoma, said that his delegation cast ten votes for Phoenix at the congress. He consid- CTS Oklahoma a great territory, but as yet no great advancement has been made in irrigation. He spoke we'll of the Salt River valley and the bright , future that lies before it. His re- } marks were highly complimentary to ) our country and were heartily ap- plauded.
 A. c. Wolfenbarger, of Nebraska, was the next speaker He is humor- ous and entertaining orator He told how hard the Nebraska delegation fought to secure the next irrigation congress for Lincoln, but that Phoe- nX was the next best place where it could be held. He dWelt on the stor-
 ies told by the Phoenix delegates at the congress concerning the wonderful , resources of the Salt River valley, but that when he looked over the valley
 yesterday he found that half had not been told. Although he spoke in glow : ing terms of Phoenix, he did not lose sight of Nebraska, and like a true patriot upheld his country. His re- marks were both humorous and seri- ous and the audience could have list ened to him with the greatest of pleasure for hours.
 Senator Boyd, of Colorado, was next !, introduced to the audience and spoke entertainingly for a brief period on the all important subject of irrigation. He compared the difference between our soil and that of other favored } countries.
 : Daniel Bonelli, of Nevada, made a , few remarks eulogistic of his state and explained that although she was : not great agricultural state, she leads the world in mining. He made several complimentary remarks about our val 3 ley and the hnSnifalitv accnrded the