The Arizona sentinel., 1899-07-29

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 At the risk of beng called man with hobby, I desire to reply to an editorial in the Republjcan of last Thursday morning under the cap tion of "Fightlng the Man of Straw" in which the Republican replies to an article in the Los Angeles Times. In that article the Tjmes among other things says: No section of the United States would be benefit ed more than Arizona through a complete and we'll considered plan of federal irrigation" That asser- tion Is so self-evident that even those who favor the plan of giving the lands to the territories do not deny it. Again the Times in the same article says: "It is somewhat surprising to find any support in that territory for a plan which would place the lands in the posses sion of individuals, or companies, whose only objection would be to reap the greatest financial benefits" If the Times is in possession of in formation to the effect that there is any support ia this territory among the people or among the newspapers, except the Repas5lican, for such a policy, it has informa- tion that is not public here. Up to the present time no newspaper in the territory, except Mir. Ran dolph's, has advocated the ceding of the arid lands of the territory. 4 few years ago the Arizona Duly Stor, while it's editor was governor, did advocate such policy, but that was when the Cary act was first passed. Since the complete failure of that act the Stor has not, to my knowledge, advocated the giving of arid lands to the territories. From the article in the Repu6I5can it ap- pears that the main object to a system of national irrigation is that it will take too long to bring it about. Just how long 1t will take to induce the United States govern ment to inaugurate and carry out 8 national system of irrigation, of course it is impossible for any man to say, but if a well organized op- position to such a system is in augurated it does not require much foresight to see that such a system will never be inaugurated. while on the contrary, if the people in the arid belt are united and their re- presentatlves and senators work intelligently to that end, the time when such a system will be com menced is near at hand. No man knows better than Mir Randolph that the most effective way to op- pose 2 national system of irrigation is by advocating the giving of the arid lands to the territories. No man knows better than Mir. Randolph that the minute the national gov ernment parts with it's title to the arid lands just that minute the government loses ali interest in the matter of their irrigation.
 The Repu5Jjca'a says the people of Arizona want the lands irrigated now and that they do not want to wait for the dim utopian future That is true, but does not the ReP@b- lican know that theirrigation canals and dams that have been construct ed by private individuals and cor porations, though they have done much to reclaim small part of the deserts, cannot and do not furnish water enough to irrigate one-quarter of the lands their canals cover and are supposed to furnish water to lrrigate.
 Has anybody assurance that if the arid lands were ceded to the territories and the territories turned them over to other corporations, that they would be any better sup piled with water than those already reclaimed? Does the FPat.iso4