The Florence tribune., 1900-04-07
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
An Effective Way to Get at the Matter
 Adopted by Williams Merchant.
From the Williams News.l

l logical survey to the gover nment, that the vast arid region of the south Invest was, and would be for all time, un- available us producer to the wants of was made-as all known supposed scientific reports-it was believed and might be said adopted; but "westward the course of empire takes it's way" :" and the science of our forefathers in many instances is to day the source of a secret smile; and in no one thing more than that report of the govern ment engineers regarding the arid regions named in sincerity-but in reality burlesque-as the Great Ameri- can Desert.
 | When Thomas Jefferson, that great thinker and statesman, made what is known as the Louisiana Purchase," and paid France what YVES supposed the enormous sum of fifteen millions of dollars for the same, he was prompt ly named by the "conservative people, :" but in that age as now, the in reality "sure thing people"-a dreamer. 1 Many went so far us to title the great man a fanatic. "Conservative people" did you say? Yea, verify conserva- tive-one of life's greatest mysteries is the way and where the honor comes in from being called conservative. It's an awful mistake What peculiar class comes under the head of conserva- | tive people. There's the timid, and | there's the doubter, there's the niser. Yea, verify, there's the coward. Excuse the great and the wise, the liberal and the broad minded; they shun as tine leper the title of the conservative. The world seemingly lends its plaudits to the conservative, or, in fact, the hesita- tor and the hesitating, who, in fact, are the conservative. The conservative never made conquest or won victory. It's the fellow who grasps the situa- tion, rushes in and if need be leaves his being bruised reed as sacrifice on the altar of attempt, that paves the way; then comes the conservative with his slow wit, methodical and merciless ways and scanning the ocean of human endeavor, bears down upon the help less shipwreck, which has shattered its good frame in the scattering of the clouds of doubt and like hawk upon its prey the conservative reaps his re- ward and satiates his suppressed but capacious maw on the misfortune o1 his fellow beings. Away with him to the realms of eternal punishment,
 where he justly belongs. Him the
 burden of centuries past and will be
 for the centuries to come. He scoffs ai
 right, derides impulse and the wants
 and just rights of the people of the
 west in the matter of irrigation and
 the reclamation of the arid lands. Any one in the least conversant witl the soil of the supposed arid regions ol the southwest knows that the soil con tains the elements essential to tht highest point of nature's most prolific productiveness, and all that is needed is water in sufficient quantities. Again
 those in the least conversant witt natural conditions knows that while
 the water supply of the southwest i not diversified, it is more than ampl,
 sufficient under the proper system 0
 storage; again, while congress appro
 priates appropriations approximatin,
 annually into the millions of dollar
 for the creations of deep rivers out o
 streams and creeks in the east and tn
 making of deep harbors out of san
 banks, yet no appropriations get int
 this country for the reclaiming c
 broad acres of fertile soil, which, i the course of a few years, would SUI
 port teeming millions of loyal an
 happy subjects.
 Interruptions politicians under tn title of "conservatism" take advan |, age of the conditions and thwart til movement; and divers are the near Y to delay and put off the easily brougl s about millennium of this subject.
 The farmer of the east buys his fert
 lizer at an enormous outlay, and und' . the influence of interruptions teaching z enters his voice in protest against a ' propriation for the getting of wat ,! onto the prolific soil of the southwes S never dreaming that economy wou iS advocate his support of such meal z and his removal from the worn ol . soil of New England to the bank of n . ture's resources and riches in u ;s southwest.
 E The fight has been hard and full S difficulties, but like all endeavors k the right, the solution seems near k hand. Among the Williams people E the movement none are more deservi V for their earnest efforts than M. Sal E man; following the leadership of t IS great apostle of irrigation and the G clamation of the arid lands, Geo. Ma v well, NJ. Salzman has utilizedthe f