The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-07
IT IS 4 RELIGION
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A Colorado Woman Speaks Of the
Status of Irrigation in the
Arid Belt.
The National irrigation Congress
Under Way-A Message From
Secretary Wilson.

Colorado Springs, tGOi.,r OCT. AL the
opening Of the National Irrigation con-
gress this morning the committee on Gre
dentials made it's report. The organiza-
ton WIS perfected without contest Of any
kind. The committee consisted of three
delegates from each Of the sixteen states,
included in what is termed the arid belt.
This committee or forty-elght upon or
ganization electing John Hall, of Kansas,
chairman, and Fl: RI Morrow, OF Roswell,
NJ NJ, as secretary.
; Fred I. Allies, Of California, was elected
assistant secretary9ard c. ]. Gavin, or
Ration. N. M, reading clerk .of the con-
gress.
Before taking UP, the program for the
morning, kilograms were read from Sec
rotary James Wilson of the department.
Of agriculture and-Abbott M Richardson,
government commissioners for =, Good
Roads in Oregon as followsY !. 1
tion congress- .sSYour IaSstiHg tos consider irrt
gation procIainds the da~ning Of new day fog
the great west. Let the forest be preserved TO
husband the rainfall; let the streams be led out
over the valleys, that hones may be. made. for
American farmers and still greater prosperity
Gomez to all our people,: ''."} :
4 james Wilson,
Secretary Of Agriculture. !
Portland. Oregon, Oct. 7.-IGeorge H. Max
withdrawing to the congress: We regret keen.
ly that the engagementasof our campaign here
will prevent us from joining with you 1p this
most important convention assemgled In the
west Irrigation has crossed the rubicon and II
moving OH to assured victory IN this time OF your
triumph. Please say your kindest words for the
cause we, represent,
Abbott and Richardson,
|''.i Government Commissioners on Good Roads.
The: only address by woman was given
+ this morning by Mrs.: hilbert McC1ufg OF
this city who, responding for Mrs. Deni-
son, president of the general federation OF
women's clubs, gave "Greetlngs. MRS
McCIurg said, referring to the meeting OF
the general federation Of women's clubs
| inrLos: Angeles last May:
1.-THE Colorado women, later joined by
those Of California, introduced at the b1-
ennial convention of the general fedora
tion of women's clubs at Los Angeles, In
May a resolution endorsing and requesting
government aid for irrigation. This reso,
luton was adopted unanimously. WheT
I first preached the proposition IN the
| Colorado committee room. one woman de-
INJURED, saying that politics had no place
in the federation Of woinens clubs. Mrs
Sarah Platt Decker, our: foremost Colorado
club women, rejoined, irrigation; is no
politics.<&5Ir the west,$it is 1eligion.1
f''Irrigation; has always been the religion
OF arid nds-the4fAith which season tn
desert the Swinging. grass blades. In
early powerful civilizat Ions OF which re
| corded history remains, were afostered am
O6VClOpCu vi D1CCAy cAAAA pANSS" '-~'
artificial systems Of irrigation.
| 1.-The western world Is to furnish We
more magnificent proofs of the transcend
ent value Of irrigation as the foundation
Of nation-building. 1t was the. lot Q
Spain, says Dr. Draper, to destroy thre
civilization superior to her own-namel1
that Of the Moors; that of the: Aztecs an
that of the Peruvians These last tw
empires stand unparalleled in the powe
and beauty conferred 3by. as perfect sys
TENS Of irrigation as the world has seer
Tenochtitlan Qike Venice) whose CLEAN
ing white buildings dominated four azur
lakes; a city built upon the waves; an
Peru, the land teenling with agriculture
wealth from the coast valleys to the tel
= raced sleeps of the Sferras, owed: the
beauty and power to the ordered minis
l tration Of conducted water" ;!
Merger With Trans MlssIsslpplans.
A decided sensation was sprung durir
e the morning in the action Of the execl
1 tive committee voting to recommend thu
S the meetings of the irrigation congress
be merged with those of the trans Missi
e sippi congress next year.
= The executive committee in order
t make this parliamentary must repo
= through the, permanent organlzatit
: which will report to the congress durir
= the day. ''>
: The Utah delegation, composed Of for
t members, the largest next to Colorad
d came to a hasty decision and report'
i against the merger. Chairman Kies
4 stated their position as follows: ':Uts
= was the first state to take UP the matt
-. of irrigation. and is therefore better a
Il quainted with the subject than any 9th
e state in the union. The irrigation CO
gress was formed for a specific purpo
and this purpose should be adhered to r
= ligiously. we"say goSit alone and do n
, let the tail wag the dog"