Arizona republican., 1908-10-02

morning. He brought a message from | President Roosevelt and said: You officials of the congress are the high
 priests of prosperity. You unite in
 wedlOck the streams of the mountains l and the sands of the desert and into
 union the bachelor and spinster states of New Mexico and Arizona. "
 The exhibits should have been
 judged on Wednesday night, but they will not until the end of the fair Arizona is aggrieved at the action of the officials, as the Salt Lake eX-
 hibits are being set today. Over 900 persons visited the Arizona exhibit this afternoon. President Ripley of the Santa Fe says the Arizona ex- hibit is the most remarkable showing ever got up by the Salt River valley. c. J. Blanchard. the statistician of the reclamation service, delivered an il- lustrated talk on the Salt River val ley tonight.
 Governor Kibbey of Arizona, deliver ed an address in the afternoon on IT, rigation in Arizona, which was a learn ed and interesting dissertation on wa ter rights which called out favorable comment from the leading members of the congress. Concluding his remarks upon the appropriation of water he said:
 Tn these arid regions the land is worthless for agricultural purposes un- less there be incident to it the right to appropriate water for its irrigation; and if that right be not commensurate with the right to the land itself, the re- suit is as disastrous as if the right to the land were limited. A limitation upon the right to the use of water nee essary to the most complete and best cultivation of the land, is a limitation upon the right to the use of the land itself. If landlordism is to be depre- cated; if a system of tenure and use of land, that is based upon rights and titles superior and above that of the actual tiller Of the land, and under which the tiller is subject to the suf- ferance of the superior, is inherently bad, is detrimental to the best inter ests of the nation or state, retards pro- gross. inevitably results in an invidious classification of the people into those of the superior and those of the infe- rior caste and is in all respects un- American, so too, must be any policy relating to the right to the use of wa ter for the irrigation of land that sub ordinates the rights of the land owner who is the tiller of the soil to the rights off may use the expression a waterford, and if landlord is a good use of language to express the status of the dominant owner of land. it is wholly apt to speak of the dominant ..F nd whatever may be said of the disadvan- tages. the harm, the shortsightedness of policy of the one, may with equal truth and in equal degree be said of the other.
 "The policy 9e law that recognizes that the water of public streams, lakes. etc, may be the subject of pri- vate ownership must carry with it all the dangers to the public good of ab- sentee landlordism or absentee water lordism. I think I need not further point out these dangers; they are ob Vious It is sometimes urged that it is a mere refinement of expression to admit that there may be an absolute right to appropriate water for use in irrigation, and deny the right of the ownership of the water itself It is the neglect to observe this distinction, as I think I have pointed out, that brings about the unfortunate failure of so many of our irrigation enterprises. It is the failure to observe this dis tinction that has made too often pos sible a system of waterlordism that has been destructive to all hope of progress and success"
 w. R. Hearst arrived here tonight to open the independence party campaign. He was accompanied by Hisgen, the party nominee for the presidency.