The Arizona sentinel., 1903-09-30

an old saying that 'The Lord
 helps those who help themselves.
 Whenever the American people
 make up their minds to do
 thing they do it quickly; they
 are fast making up their minds
 to take up that proposition. II
 you had gone across Nevada two
 years ago, and 1 had told you on
 that same spot you today would
 have seen the great system Of irrigation now there you would
 have laughed at me. The peO-
 pie are beginning to take part in
 this great question; it has touch
 ed the patriotic hearts of the
 people. It is the opening up of
 these arid lands in the west so
 that every able bodled man can
 get home. There is also a great
 undercurrent of patriotic spirit in the east in favor of this na
 tional irrigation system. A few
 years ago if I had gone to Southern California and pointed
 cut from Old Baldy to you the
 valley below and 1 had told you
 that you would see. beautiful or ange groves over the whole val ley there you would not have
 believed me. 1 will predict that , within two years from today you
 will see the great contractors camps on the mesa completing the canals. 1 will make the pre- diction that within ten years r from today you will have the mesa one unbroken orange orch ard; that you will have great big city. You may think you are large now, and like the mother wi6h her small baby glad thatit is healthy, even if it is small. My good friends, you
 do not take into consideration
 that in all the eastern half of the
 United States there are seventy
 millions and in the western half
 only ten millions; and we can take million of them and put them in Arlzona in ten years and
 the east will never miss them
 they won't know they're gone.
 Reverting to the Colorado river f projects the speaker continued "The suggestion was made to Q some of your people that this movement not be booked as an f Arizona project; that it would Q be better policy to take 1t up and
 have it worked through the Cal ifornia end Now 1 am in favor
 of this. 1 believe that the busi
 ness interests of Los Angeles
 absolutely without division, vii get behind your project and Hil . push it with all political zeal ] push it as a Southern California project, which, in d measure Ii S necessarily is. :"
 n At this point private lettel from MT. Lppincott was read. IF Reverting again to local condi q tions the speaker said:
 o ''It is this way about the rive f and harbor bill: They figure ou
 what they can get by trading around;;' the committee gets tht d biggest slices. They reach ou q and say, 'Mr. Smith, we vii o dredge another goose pond, anC " so on. To go after something o there without the strongest in f fuences would be futile.
 # ''L am not here to hold ou .s falsehoods to you. 1 am here il x so far as it is in my power t.
 guide you aright. If your dele 'S gate to congress would take thi T. matter up in earnestness 1 thinl K it is possible he might do some
 thing for you; I do not say h 1T would; it depends a good deal O. T. the way it would be handled i It Washington; it depends @pon tn le ability of the congressman t n, manipulate his interests. thin or you ought to have it: 1 don lg think it is at all imperative fo re the reclamation of these lands, bu Of that does not at all change tn Is situation. In so far as you car 1t help yourselves. In other words 'n don't lie back and wait for some le body else to do what you can d Id yourselves. The more you d IS. q I.