The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-12-07

| kclentlnC bureaus generally enOulu DC put
under the department OF agriculture. The
| president should have by law the power
] OF transferring lands for use as forest re-
lie already has snch power Il in the case Of
lands needed by the departments OF war
and the navy
Irrigation In connection with the waste
| LANDS OF the west Is n question 10 which
the president gives considerable attention,
and makes Strong recommendations ior
waste lands by assisting in their irriga-
ton and the control OF water rights wher-
ever that is possible. and OF this ne says:
I'm the arid region IL is water, not land,
which measures production. The western
halt OF the United states would sustain a
population greater thun that oil our whole
country to-oay IL the waters That now run
TO waste were saved and used Tor irriga-
ton. The forest and water problems are
perhaps the most vital Internal questions
I'm cases where natural conditions have
been restored for few years vegetation
has again earpeted the ground, BIRDS and
persons, especially from the immediate
neighborhood, come each summer to enjoy
OF the forest peseavep Should Sm aford peT.
petual protection to the native fauna and
flora. safe Ravens OF refuge to our rapidly
diminishing wild animals OF the larger
kinds and free camping grounds for the
ever-increasing numbers OF men and wom-
en- who have learned to find rest, health
and recreation IN the splendid forests ard
The forest reserves should be set apart
forever for the use and benefit OF our peo-
PIE as whole and not sacrificed to the
The forests alone cannot, however. fully
regulate and conserve the waters of the
essary TO equalize the flow OF streams and
to save the flood waters. Their construc-
ton has been conclusively shown to be an
undertaking too vast for private effort
he IN nj ieh nod nv ha in
divfdual states acting alone. Far-reaching
interstate problems are involved, and~the
resources of single states would often be
function, at least in some OF its features.
1t Is as right for the national government
to make the streams and rivers OF the
arid region useful by engineering works
for water storage as TO make useful the
rivers and harbors OF the humid region by
engineering works of another kind. The
storing of the floods In reservoirs at the
headwaters of our rivers is but an en-
largement of our present policy of river
control under which levees are built on
the lower reaches of the same streams.
The government should construct and
maintain these reservoirs as IL does other
public works. Where their purpose Is 10
regulate the fow of streams the water
should be turned freely into the channels
in the dry season to take the same course
under the same laws as the natural flow.
1.-THE reclamation and settlement of the
arid lands will enrich every portion of
our country, just as the settlement OF the
Ohio and Mississippi valleys brought pros
perity to, the Atlantic states. The in
creased demand for manufactured ari-
Giles will stimulate Industrial production,
while wider home markets and the trade
OF Asia will consume the larger food sup
plies and effectually prevent western
competition with eastern agriculture. In
deed, the products of irrigation Will be
consumed chiefly in upbuilding local CEN
would otherwise not come into existence
at all. Our people as whole Will profit.
for successful home making is but another
name for the upbuilding or the nation.
He counsels against attempting too much
at the beginning, but advises that we let
experience on small! plan teach the pos
sibilites of greater undertakings. lie also
cites the conditions under which the set
tiers of the west are attempting TO buiid
homes on these arid lands, and says:
THE security and value of the homes
created depend largely on the stability of
titles to water, but the majority of these
rest on the uncertain foundation of court
decisions rendered In ordinary suits at
law. With a few creditable exceptions.
the arid states have failed TO provide for
the certain AID just division of streams in
have made IL possible to establish rights
TO water in excess Of actual uses or ne
cessities, and many streams have already
passed into private Ownership or control
equivalent to ownership
whoever controls stream practically
controls the land 1t renders productive. and
the doctrine of private ownership of water
causing enduring wrong. The recognition
of such ownership, which has been per-
mitted to grow up In the arid regions.
should give way to more enlightened and
larger recognition OF the rights of the pub
lie In the control ard disposal Of the pub
lie water supplies. Laws founded upon
conditions obtaining In humid regions.
where water is too abundant to Justify
boarding it. have no proper application In
dry country
'1n the arid states the only right to water
which should be recognized is that Of use.
In irrigation this right should attach to
the land reclaimed ard be inse parable
rights to other than users without
compensation to the public is open to all
the objections which apply to giving away
ties of the cities. A few of the western
states have already recognized this ard
have incorporated In their constitutions
the doctrine Of perpetual state ownership
The Colonies.
Considerable attention is given the coll
onies, and especially the Philippines. This
section Of the message begins by citing
which he says:
I'm Hawaii our aim must be to develop
the territory on the traditional American
estates titled by cheap labor. We wish
healthy American community of men
who themselves till the farms they own.
be shaped with this end in view. The well
being of the average homemaker must
AFFORD the true test of the healthy devel-
opment of the islands. The land policy
should as nearly as possible be modelled
on our homestead system"
OF Porto Rico he says the island Is thriv-
ing as never before, and Is being admins
tered efficiently and honestly. He deems
no legislation necessary except that con-
corning the public lands of the island.
He calls attention to the fact that In
Cuba the independent government OF the
island will soon be In control, and In the
same connection urges strongly the need
of reciprocal trade relations with the new
ration. upon which subject he says.
''In the case of Cuba there are weighty
reasons of morality and of national inter-
est why the policy should be held TO have
n DE GUITAR application, and most earnest
ly ask your attention to the wisdom, indeed
to the vital NEED. Of providing for sub
stantial reduction In the tarif duties on
Cuban imports into the United States.
cuba has in her cons titution affirmed what
we desired that she should stand in inter-
national matters in closer and more frie nd
ly relations with US than with any other
power, ard we are bound by every consid-
Grafton of honor and expediency to pass
CONNIE rcial measures In the Interest OF
her material well being"
For the Philippines he recommends much
in the way of legislation. but again coun-
sells caution that we go neither too far nor
with too great haste. lie says: 1--WE hope
to make our administration OF the islands
honorable to our nation by making II OF the
highest benefit to the Filipinos themselves,
and as an earnest OF what we intend to do
we point to what we have done: