Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-15

! his followers poured a little water, and
behold the earth laughed with rich
harvest They poured more water up
on the arid soil and again the earth
smiled, but more broadly, and from
that little patch OF corn an inter-
mountain empire was created. BY and
by the outer edges OF the two empires
touched ana they melted into one
mighty one, the fame Of which spread
over the earth and brought a myriad
who established homes and lived in
comfort beneath their own vine and
| Ag tree"
In this way the writer In the Irrl-
cation Age graphically describes the
work Of the first pioneers of irrigation,
to whom this country, and the world,
are indebted for the conquest OF an em-
plre. for civilization and PROSPERITY.
But the first pioneers were followed by
others, and today third generation
Of Irrigation pioneers, speaking not
according TO time but according TO
work, is meeting at ogden, TO deliber-
ate upon the work further needed for
the reclamation OF the waste places.
New questions have arisen new prob
lens must be solved, and this will be
the work Of the new pioneers.
In the interesting article under re-
view the opinion Is expressed, that
I'VE have reached the cross roads
In the Irrigation problem and the land
question, whore II must be decided
whether the people of sixteen great
states OF oYermastering productive
powers. shall be the owners OF their
own soil, or become the eternal mort
cages Of Unsuitable graspng schemers
OF the same Tx as those who have
been squeezing them like sponges for
so many years.
Never, since the Declaration OF In
dependence was rung out to the world
has there been 40 great and pressing a
necessity for freedom-not that foreign
enemies are crushing us but our home
Tories are more dangerous than open
foes because they are more insinuating,
and they are protected by certain busl-
ness policies which dlscountenance
their exposure, and they are CARRIED In
robes Of light by liberal applications OF
printers Ink
'The liberty to be rung out to the
people Of this nation and to the world,
Is the liberty OF the homeseeker. the
tolling builder of the western empire,
To select his own home and the water
TO cultivate IL. free from interference,
ana the liberty to possess and enjoy It
IN peace, comfort and happiness I'm his
own fashion, and 10 his own profit
without being disturbed by conflicting
laws or discriminating interpretations
put upon them by grasping, enylous
outsiders VINO see In prosperous
farmer good game TO be plucked ham
pered. harassed, and even ruined"
This, 1t Is declared, Is the work be-
fore the Irrigation Congress. That
body alone is competent to handle sat-
ihaotory the new problems.
II is gratifying to notice credit given
to President Young and the Utah
Pioneers for the gigantic work they, in
the providence OF God accomplished
FOR the country from which they were
temporarily cast out. This work,
some have shown q tendency to beit-
lie. But IN vain. Those Pioneers
were empire builders, and their work
today is the monument OF their
achievement, 1t is the history of
Joseph, sold into Egypt, repeated The
land Of exile has .hsen turned into one
OF the richest 81 storehouses on earth.