Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-18


mocracy. l believe the battle for
genuine economic independence on the
part OF the masses CT men Is to be won
IL these far valleys. under the bene-
dietion Of the western sun. And with
I'll reverence 1 utter the conviction that
into cur hands. for the time, God has
given the very ark of the covenant that
we may bear it before our countrymen
to the promised land
In support Of his claim for this lofty
mission of tho movement. Mr.. Smythe
analyzed the influence of irrigation and
the environment of the arid region on
social. :ndue:l al and political institu-
tons. The endless battle with the
desert makes a strong and iadomita-
BILE race. The diversion and distribu-
t.C:i of the stream from its natural
channels absolutely compe.s co-opera-
ton among men and high order of in
du2trial organization. Irrigat ton favors
small farms. and these imply dense
population and extraordinary social
advantages.
But the most important of ALL in
the fiel sc contest for the possession of
the w.iter supply. public ownership has
TRUMP he'd over private and corporate
enterprise. The nation reaches its hand
into the desert and commands the floods
to stand back. the streams TO flow out
upon the land. the forests to live and
TO multiply upon the mountain sides,
and thus prepares the way for a new
population, equal to the present total
of the United States, to realize complete
economic iEde perdence in what is now
all but voiceless wilderness.
This assertion of national power in
the creation and management of public
utilities-this expenditure Of national
capital for the direct and lasting benefit
of the MASSES the most momentous
step in our social history since the abo-
lition of negro slavery. We are apply
ing new principles to the problems of
our new century. Carried TO their logi-
cal conclusion, they mean a new birth
Of institutions built on the recognition
of the nations right and the nations
duty to do for its people whatever shall
be necessary to their greatest happiness
and their truest welfare In the hour
of peril it will be the derided desert
which shall save the republic by keep
ing it true to its primitive ideals. set
TO the music of a new time"
IRRIGATION At WORLDS FAIR.
MI Frederick w. Taylor, chief of the
department of agriculture of the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition. spoke of
irrigation at the St. Louis worlds
Fair He said in part:
III we try to look into the future
in order that we may know what
to expect as to the status of the APP
plcation of water to growing crops.
ten or twenty or hundred years
hence. we can only forecast an i'm
mense broadening of the areas to be
covered or assisted, and of the kinds
and areas of such crops as are to know
the magic touch of the water question.
Il am persuaded that there are thou
sands Of square miles of territory now
under cultivation where the average
waterfall is just below the amount
necessary to produce the best results.
or just little too irregular in its
habits to be safely depended upon
where the Windmill or the reservoir
will be brought int ouse in such a way
will be brought into use in such 4 way
tempts to grow crops.
providence is benficent and kind in
its habits but does things in a large
way, doing business by the wholesale.
Man must conserve and store up the
a supply TO draw from in Il time of
famine.
The necessity for man to plan and
organize and then to judiciously as
sist Providence is beautifully exempIi-
fed in the study of irrigation.
THE way in which to lead people
to study and appreciate the bearing of
irrigation and its natural results upon
our daily lives. is the problem that
confronts the departments of agricul-
ture and horticulture of the next
worlds fair.
There are two phases of the sub
ject to be treated: First. methods and
appliances by which irrigation is car
ried on. and second. the crops result
ing from the application of irrigation
THE best way in which the first sug-
gestion may be carried out is to act
ua1ly plant upon tract of land, set
aside for the purpose, with crops. de
livering water upon it exactly as the
same subject would be handled in act
ual practice, showing the construction
Of the bitches, and the method OF
handling the water. and in general pre-
senting an object lesson meant to APP
peal to the most unlearned in such
matters.
"Plans looking toward thu carrying
out of this method of showing irriga-
ton are now underway. and will.
trust be fully worked out.
I sincerely trust that the exhibits
i'll those subjects comprising and re-
lated to Irrigation may be so presented
as to give to the future historian or
student a complete and comprehensive
story of our condition.