Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-09-16
COLONIZATION
IN THE WEST
Subject Discussed Before Ma
tional Irrigation Congress by
Salvation Army Commander.
NEXT CONGRESS FIGHT
Although Lively It Has Narrowed Down
to Boise and EI Paso...Desert
Land Act Discussed.

Ogden, Utah, Sept. 16-The methods
of colonization of the vast irrigible
districts of the West and the legal as
pect of the whole question of irriga.
tion and the existing land laws were
the subjects scheduled to come before
the National Irrigation congress at to-
days sessions The first named sub
ject took up the entire of the morning
session and at the afternoon session
the desert land act was discussed. The
fight for the congress for 1904 is be-
coming lively and has narrowed down
to Boise and Ell Paso.
Immediately after the congress was
called to order Senator Carey of Wy
oming, chairman of the committee ap-
pointed last year to consider the advis-
ability of the consolidation with the
trans-Mississippi congress, reported
against such action and the report was
unanimously adopted. Ten minutes
were set aside for reading and the in
PRODUCTION Of resolutions and food
came in Included among other things
were statehood for New Mexico, Ari-
iona and Oklahoma.
Commander Booth Tucker of the sal
walton Army spoke on COLONIZATION
in the West" He said in part:
What our American poor ask for is
not charity but opportunity. Let this
congress then throw wide open before
our working classes that door of op-
portunity Let it place within the
reach OF the landless man, our man
less lands. Let it speak with a voice
which cannot be misunderstood, and
let it thunder at the doors of our ma
tionel capitol and of our state legis-
latures. till colonization is made as
much an imperative and practical
question OF the hour as by it's bril-
liant and persistent efforts irrigation
has already become. The association
of these two powerful factors, irriga-
tion and colonization, in the welfare
of our nation, will be well nigh IT.
Tesistible, and with these mighty lev
ers this congress will lift from the ma
tiOn's pathway. the dead weight of pow
erty and congestion which has OBJ
struct our national progress, created
internecine struggles between capital
and labor and threaten to shipwreck
cur future prosperity.
1t matters not whether the question
be viewed from the standpoint of the
sociologist devising way of deliver
ance from the perplexing problems of
poverty, the philanthropist desiring to
permanently better his fellowmen,
the millionaire wishing to leave an ev-
erlasting monument to his name, the
statesman desiring to build up the fu-
ture welfare of his nation, the politi-
clan seeking for desirable plank in
his party's platform. the manufactur-
er welcoming vast outlet for his pro-
ductiOns in the creation of a home
market the newspaper with it's finger
upon the throbbing pulses of human
ity, the land owner hoping to enhance
the value of his land the capitalist
requiring safe and profitable invest.
ment, the workingman laboring to
SuisC Out III ulMocIl anu ldLulIy
reasonable living, or the religious
leader aiming at the happiness of his
flock on earth and their eternal wei
fare hereafter, colonization presents4
to each and all common ground on
which all may meet, none can differ,
and our entire nation, from the White
House to the dug-out. from the man.
sion to the attic, will unite in rising
up and calling blessed that congress,
that body OF wise men from the West, |
that nation that society, that states
man, that individual, who shall make
habitable and shall colonize the vast
domain of Americas irrigated lands.
The delegates gave him three cheers
when he concluded. Recess until af-
ternOon was then taken.
A resolution was introduced by
Geo. H Maxwell, chairman of the Ma
tional Irrigation association, favoring
the recommendations contained in |
President Roosevelt's telegram of yes
terday for the preservation Of forests, |
and favoring Immediate repeal of the
desert land act, timber and stone act, |
and the Communication clause of the |
homestead act. The resolutions were
very explicit and were heartily ap-
plaMded by the delegates