Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-04
From The battle-ground Of Thoueht.

In Grand Grand Valley, Colorado,
Valley. is one OF the most con-
Colorado. spicuous examples today
of the struggle for cor
poration control as against Govern
ment Of the methods used in that
struggle. and OF the innocent investor
being ground between the upper and
neither milestone. There are also some
amazing features of garblcd evidence
submitted for n legal verdict. of the
water hog" coming In and filing on
water that he can not use himself to
compel "a buy Off" 1t Is curious
case. having TO buy a hog of .he s.r-
ply of water for your own field. This
Is an irrigation struggle, though
in. lifting water to the high
mcsas and generating power
from the diverted waters, Picture a
valley some thirty miles long, in no
place wider than few miles. banked
high on each side by sheer walls of
mountain redlands. topped and terrac-
ed by the sage brush mcsas. In this
valley were deposited through pre-
historic centuries tons and tons OF
mountain silt, mountain humus-fine
as flour. rich as forest mold-a world
OF sleeping wealth waiting to be
touched to life by the living waters.
This valley is not farm 1t is a
garden. 1t Is not country. 1t Is city
and country combined. The houses
are buried in trees. Next door to d
retired New York editor you find a
travelling man who does his travelling
In a heavy motor-car, and goes abroad
for his holidays and counts his wealth
not In orders. but in apples ] said
next door" for few of the farms
are larger than ten or twenty acres:
but the angel with the drawE, sword
that stands guard at the portals OF
this valley is-lack of water CO.
operative efforts have been able to ir-
rigate only the strip OF low-lying land:.
down the middle
The terraced mesas on each side and
the uplands lie bare. awaiting the COM
ing OF the nighttime ditch; and IL the
uitch does not come. thousands of
investors from East and West. who
have bought this land on the basis of
what the irrigated bottoms produce,
VIII race ruin. With water this land
produces from $500 TO $500 worth
OIL 1ruit an acre-fruit famed in New.
York and London and Paris as without
peer without water this land will
not produce fifteen cents an acre.
Agnes c. Laut in Golfers for October
80.
Problems These are only few Of
VI tOtSTo tuc LnaL
To Solve. would come before
constitutional convention.
and the fact that they would be af-
hrmatlvely treated Is sufficient indica-
lion that the Constitution in it's pres
ent shape is by no means a perfect
document The electoral college as il
now exists would unquestionably be
abolished. The plan of the farmers OF
the Constitution has. in fact, been
absolutely perverted. and tho people
have adopted what Mr.. Woodrow VIII
son aptly denominates '' a serviceable
framework of fiction in order to ex-
ericse their proper function in the
election of the President and Vice
President. 1t is possible. too, that
there would be a change in the time
of the meeting of Congress Under the
present system, q Representative
chosen in November may not be called
upon to take his seat in Congress until
more than year after his election.
There is a very general opinion that
this hiatus should be removed for
reasons which are obvious Another
popular change would be the Iengthen-
Ing of the Presidential term to six
years, with ineligibility for reelection.
Still another reform which has been