The Arizona sentinel., 1903-09-30

y Whenever agriculturiSts prosper all other industries prosper be- side them"
 Mr. Maxwell, then related how he came to be connected with the association, of it's growth, what it had accomplished. and what it yet hoped to accomplish. He emphasized the point that what would be done by the govern ment in any given locality rested mainly with the people directly interested: that if they showed no interest in the matter to the extent of working unitedly for what they most desired it would certainly not be forced upon them.
 Regarding wrong impressions that have gone abroad to the ef- feet that Mr. Maxwell is i'll some manner connected with the na- tionaI government, he said,
 "I am not in the employ of the government, have no connection with the government of any kind 1; | know nothing of what the gov ernment will do no more than you do. other than that 1 may have more of an idea of it's move ments. but that is all. | cannot come here and tell yeW what the government will do HE this val l lev: all can do Is tU lay the facts before you and you can draw your own cG4ScTUSiOns just as 1 have"
 Eloquent reference was made to the necessity of promoting the prosperity of the farmers, since upon their prosperity depended she prosperity of all the balance. | As a correllative statistical fact, relating to the growth of agricul' ture. it was stated that the agri. cultural products of the country for the last statistical year ex ceed in value the whole number of farms of thirty years ago.
 Referring to the National IF rigation Congress, its growth and accomplished work, he stat ed that up to it's eighth annua session, it had failed absolutely of any influence, since to one
 member working for it's acknOwl edged purposes there was one
 working against them for per
 sonal ends: that the efforts O.
 each worker had been neutral
 ized by an obstructionist; tha
 even in the session just recently
 ended the same forces were band
 ed together to prevent the ac
 tiOn looking to the repeal of th'
 desert land act and other wrong
 ful legislation pertaining to th' public lands, resulting in the de
 feat of the desired object and th'
 substitution of weak and inef fectual resolution, to which ref
 erence was made in these col umns last week.
 Referring to the aims of tn
 irrigation association especla emphasis was laid upon the fac
 that it worked to people the lan' and give to each man and eacl
 family entitled thereto a hOm answeringto their material needs Along the line that the publi : lands belong to the citizens, eac. : citizen is entitled to his shar t and should have 1t. That to tn more speedily reach this end tn association was now working t l gain special appropriations. T l again quote:
 "We do not ask for none from leasing lands; we do nc l ask for money from the sale ( ] public lands: we do say that thi
 money should be advanced frol | the treasury of the United State {, just as fast as it is necessary
 have the money to complete tE j. works. whether it be five million n ten million or fifty million do I lars.
 y Referring to the Tonto Basi < reservoir the speaker said Git '. comparatively a small prOje' e when you see the waters that 2 2 to waste in the Colorado rive Il The Columbia river in east Was " ingtOn goes to waste more thf
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