Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-10-08
1.-THE NEWlANDS LAW"

IHE N6WIANOS LAW"
Some Facts Worth Remembering and
Quoted by Authority.
The following taken from the Salt
Lake Herald will be Of interest at this
time to those who heard Senator Fair.
banks at the Opera House last We'd
nesday
The unexpected development of the
national compafgn is the prominence
OF the irrigation issue. The Demo
cats are forcing the fight while the
Republicans have been compelled to
assume the defensive.
The St. Louis platform boldly de.
ciares that the national irrigation law
now on the statute books is measure
framed by a Democrat passed in the
Senate by a non-partisan vote and
passed in the house against the oppo-
sitiOn of almost all the Republican
leaders by vote the maJo ity Of which
was democratic.
The opening of the campaign in the
east was marked by a vigorous Demo
cratic assault on the Republican policy
Of growing extravagances for military
naval and colonial expenditures and
an equally vigorous demand for "the
building Of the republic at home. n
accordance with he following plank
CT the st. Louis platform.
I'VE call attention to this great
Democratic measure (the Newlands'
act, as an evidence of the policy of
domestic development contemplated by
the Democratic party. should it be
placed in power
Thus the line is drawn clearly be-
tween the two parties. lit is not 4
question of tariff nor currency, nor Of
anti-imperialism in the sentimental
sense. 1t is a plain matter of dollars
and cents and of how and where it is
best for Uncle Sam to spend his money
The Democrats stand for home devel-
opment as against foreign expansion,
and for the armies Of peace against
he armies of war" They claim that
their record and platform completely
justify them in this attitude.
SHAW T THE RE!CUE.
Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the
Treasury, devoted his recent Denver
speech largely to the defense OF. the
! administration upon this question He
took for his text widely circulatsd
article by William E. Smythe, father
OF the national irrigation congress"
and a we'll known California Democrat
who is taking an active part in the
western campaign for Parker AMI
Davis
Secretary Shaw denied that the
Democrats are entitled to any credit in
connection with national irrigation,
and asserted that history will give
the entire credit for what has been &C.
omplished to Theodore Roosevelt. He
declared that the President was the
first man to risk his political for
tunes by the espousal of irrigation
and that. no matter what others had
tried to do, both in and out of Con
gress, they were no nearer success
than they were ten years ago unit
the President advocated national ir
rigation policy in his message of De
originally drawn by Senator Newland
and declared that it did not contain
the ideas embodied in the present leg
islation. SIS
DEMOCRATS ANSWER.
Mr.. Smythe replied to Secretar.
Shaw in a speech in Denver. He sal
President Roosevelt recommended i,
rigation eighteen months after the pc
icy had been endorsed by every part
in the United States-Democrats, Rer
ublicans, Socialists, Populists and {
course the Prohibitionists who ga
ways favor water" He asked how
man counld risk his political fortune
by advocating a policy officially ia
ored by the representatives Of ever
voter in the United States.
''He hitched his wagon to the rise
star of national irrigation as it shCn
resplendent in the western sky" sal
Mr. Smythe, "at time when it's ligl
vas so brilliant that man coul
read a presidential message at NIT
night"
The speaker said that the Pres
dents name may live alone in irrig
ton history, provided history be wri
ten by his cabinet, but an unprejudice
historian will mention two other fact
First. The thousands of patriot
men labOred for more than a doze