Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
NEW NATIONALISM
SCORESAT PUEBLO.
States Rights Advocates in the
2 Minority at Irrigation
Congress
COMMITTEES ARE APPOINTED
Men of Forestry Service Meet
with Stockmen and Set
tie Differences
COMMITTEES ARE APPOINTED
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great Importance of all irrigation COM
panies installing a system of drainage
bitches. I am today more in earnest
on this subject than ever. because dur
ing the past year have seen such a
system, and 1 understand the first in
the United States to be installed, at
Barstow, IN the Pecos valley of west
Texas, and its workings more than
justify the positions that 1 have ad-
vocated.'
The change in public knowledge and
sentiment regarding the arid region and
it's future was emphasized in the paper
prepared by Dr. f. NJ Newell, director
of the reclamation service, and read to
the congress this afternoon. Mr.. New
ell showed the first estimates of costs
and benefits were far too small; that
the governments investment in irriga-
ton amounts to nearly 100000 900; that
the western country is developing by
leaps through the settlement upon this
land of hundreds and thousands of
families from the east.
SKILL To FARM REQUIRED
Mr.. Newell said in part:
Pioneering In irrigated country or on a
dry farm requires more common sense
more knowledge and more endurance than
in ordinary farming conditions, but to
the man who meet these conditions
the results are far greater than would be
attained elsewhere.
Successful irrigation is not q lazy mans
way Of farming. It means intensive cul-
tivation and the use of brains with water;
in fact the more brains and the less
water used the greater will be the sue
of water than from deficiency.
Mr.. Newell traced the work of the
federal reclamation bureau since the
passage of the reclamation act eight
years ago Investment in national
irrigation now amounted to 5000 900,
nearly all returnable he said.
The wealth already produced by this
investment in land values already
ceeded this by two to one, and yet this
was but the beginning. 1t was conserva-
tive to state that every dollar loaned by
the federal government would add three
dollars to the taxable wealth Of the west.
ExGov. Joseph H. Kibby of Arizona
was chosen chairman of the resolutions
committee and w. j. Mckee of Wash
ington secretary.
The committee appointed at the Spo-
kane congress to arrange a Pan-Ameri-
can irrigation congress reported prog
ress, but advised the congress that cir
cumstances made 1t inadvisable to hold
such a congress in 1911. The commit
tee was instructed to continue its work,
water, not land, is the present prob
lem of the west" declared Congress
man John A. Martin of Colorado, in
discussing public lands in state irri-
a resolution offered early in the day,
declaring that public lands under prop
er regulations could be included in state
irrigation districts, and thereby add
millions of acres to the tillable acreage
of the western states.
Joseph B. Kibbey of Arizona was Sc
lected as chairman of the COMMITTEES
of the congress.
Board of governors-Felix Martinez
Board of control-R. H. FaXon, Kan
sas, and Alva Adams, Colorado.
POLITICS INVADE CONGRESS
Politics developed rapidly tonight
around headquarters. Is. A. Fowler
incumbent, has been mentioned for &
second term as president, but as it Is
the custom of the congress to elevate
the first vice president state delega'
tions are falling into line rapidly fol
r. E. Twitchell of New Mexico.
For chairman of the board of gov
ernors R. Insinger of Spokane is the
only candidate in the field, while tht
present secretary, Arthur Hooker, will
probably be reelected.
No less interesting is the contest fol
the hoonr of entertaining the 1911 con
gress. For two DAYS the contest has
been between Chicago and Reno, bu
tonight the race was enlivened by the
entrance of Los Angeles and st. Louis
Chicago already has lined up seVera
states IN its support, the latest add
ton being Kansas. Los Angeles claims
the support of the coast states, anC
though a late entrant the California
delegates are optimistic.
Nebraska and Kansas tonight made
their positions clear on the state rights
question when these delegations au
thorized the sending of kilograms tt
w. j. Bryan commencing him for hi
able exposition of the doctrine of fed
eral control of interstate water.
William e. Smythe of San Diego
known as the father of the Irrigation
congress, spoke Of ''The New Gospel; g
Little Land and Living" He said ir
part:
become a town n-dwelling people The col
onization of the future ought to be di-
rected largely to the settlement of lands
lying close to large cities. These should
brought under greatly diversified cultiva-
tion. The settlers aim should be inde-
pendence and contentment rather than
speculation and sudden riches. Under
such conditions the advantages Of city
life will be mostly within reach of the
man on the soil. We shall have a new
type of citlzenship-the garden farmer.
And a new kind OF communicable gar
den city.
This is a work In which the govern
rnent ought to take the lead, at least TO
the extent of educating people IN
these new forms of social and agricultural
life There must be refuge for great
numbers Of people who crowding each
other to the point of suffocation in the
trades and professions. And there is no
refuge but the land
To make the land ready for the people
and direct the current of colonization into
good channels is much the legitimate
work Of government the fostering of
manufactures by protective tariff, or
the announcement of the merchant ma
rine by subsidies 1t is as important 10
organize the armies Of peace as to build
great navies for the possible emergency
of war. The interests of social justice ana
social peace alike demand the attention
OF the government to this work OF do
nestle colonization. The United States
had no time to lose If 1t would deal with
this problem to the best advantage.
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