Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

cry season TO take CTe same CouESo
under the same laws as the natural flow.
The reclamation and settlement of tho
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 arti-
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
tiers Of mining and other Industries which
for successful homemakng Is but another
name FOR the upbuiiding OF the nation.
He couns els against attempting too Knhch
at the beginning, but advises that We let
e1perieaee on, a small plan teach the POS
s soaist Il eogn rnan andsr Whsh lie
tlers Of the west arc attempting TO b0,l6
homes en- these arid lands, and says:
created depend largely on the stability Of
titles to water, but the majority Of these
rest on the uncertain foundation OF eoart
law. With few creditable exceptions,
the arid states have failed to provide for
the certain and just division of streams In
times OF scarcity. Lax and uncertain laws
have made 1t possible to establish rights
to water in excess Of actual uses or ne ne.
cessities and many streams have ALREADY
passed into private ownership or control
equivalent to ownership
whoever controls a stream practically
controls the land It renders productive. and
the doctrine of private ownership of water
Causing ash . endurins wrong wrong The recognition
Of snsh ownership Which asa per
should give way to more enlightened and
larger recognition of the. rights Of the pub
lie in the control and disposal Of the pub
| lie water supplies. Laws founded upon
| conditions obtaining in humid regions.
! where water is too abundant to Justify
Iiyfr h n n {VN
dry country
which should be recognized is that Of use
/ the land reclaimed and be inseparable
therefrom. Granting perpetual water
rights to other than ah,,, users 5. So. without
the objections which apply. to giving away
/ perpetual franchises 70 the public utili-
states have already recognized this and
have Incorporated in their constitutions
j the doctrine of perpetual state ownership
/ of water"
The Colonies.
I Considerable attention is given the col
onies, and especially the Philippines. This
section of the message begins by citing
the. neeas of Hawaii and Porto Rico. of
/ which he says:
I'm Hawaii sur aim must be to develop
the territory on the traditional American
lines. We do not wish a region of large
estates titled by cheap labor. We wish a
healthy American community of men
who themselves till the farms they own.
All our legislation for the Islands should
be shaped with this end IN view. The well
af n,s the true test Il the healthy devei-
sas Ct n .ns islands poss III: aaa aJRs SsS
on our homestead system"
Fl OF Porto Rico he says the island L. thriv-
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
I nation, upon which subject he says:
! I'm the case Of Cuba there are weighty
Of NGnt s sna Of be hs -
d peculiar application. and l most earnest
" ask your. attention to the wisd ON, indie ed
;; stantial reduction in the tariff duties on
Cuban imports into the United States.
i. Cuba has in her constitution affirmed what
. we desired that she should stand in inter-
national matters in closer and more friend
, | y relations with US than with any other
power and We are bound by every consid.
,, GRAFTON of honor and expediency to pa SIS
commercial measures in the interest Of
/, her material we'll being"
For the Philippines he reconinl ends much
.. in the way of legislation. but again eoun-
sells caution that we go neither too far nor
with too great haste. He. says: 1--WE hope
, highest benefit to the Fiilpinos Themselves,
and as an earnest Of what we intend to do
Already greater measure of material
t prosperity and of governmental honesty
] and efficiency has been attained in tbs
Phil /? than ever before IN their his
He says we do not desire TO do fas IBIS
islanders merely what has elsewhere been
| done for trepic peoples by even tho t,est
} Foreign governments. We hope to es fes
I them what has never before been dane fol
1 any people of the tropies-ts make them
fit for self government after the fashion Of
' the really free nations"
' But the idea Of the president is that We
cannot leave the sland ay at IN this sa TINE 81
: this time would mean that they would
j. fall into a weller of murderous anarchy
, such a desertion Of duty on our part
! would be crime against humanity"
. But h. believes sufficient progress has
t been made along the lines under which we
d have been working in the Islands to war
i rant US in passing new !egislatto but in
r tlon.. He believes, the time has come when
n capable should be encouraged by graz ting
n franchises for their development, and of
: Nothing better can be done for the Is
i lands than to introduce industrial enter
prises. Nothing would benefit them 80
| much as throwing them open 10 Industrial
I development The connection betweGa
\ idleness and mischief is proverbia and the
= opportunity 10 90 reInuneraliVe WoTR ~
one of the surest preventives OF war. 81
+ course no business man vii! go into the
). Philippines unless 1t is to his interest to
. do so, and 1t Is immensely to the interest
: of the Islands that he should go in. 1t is
p therefore necessary that the congress
. should pass laws by which the resources
: of the Islands can be developed, SO that
franchises Qor limited terms of years. can
be granted to companies doing business 81 s IN N
hem and eyer e o9 ses1
/ Kind :.
Net to permit this Is to 90 wrong t. t:
E granted and the business permitted only
h under regulations which will guarantee the
Z Islands against any kind Of improper ex.
81 he GLANDS mu ,se be-
= capital willing to develop 1t must pc ever
. the opportunity. The field must be thrown
open to individual enterprise. Whlch nas
}. been the real factor in the development ,, o.
!; every region over which our flag has hoWn
1t is urgently necessary to enact spitabli
laws dealing with general transportation
mining, banking currency, homestea9as an NJ
Q timber. These laws will give free play t
industrial enterprise, and the commercla
, development which will surely follow WI
9 best, proofs Of the sincerity of our desir'
: The construction of Pacific cable !
also urged, either that the government
n the Philippines. or that an arrangement
a be made by which the advantages &C
g cruing from government cable may
secured to the government by e eS,1tE 6
$ political and military considerations.
The Isthmian Canal.
y He calls attention to the need of a.
4 sthmian canal, and says
+ Its Importance to the nation is by n
Il ynn 1nc lf1pit n1 IN