The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-09-27
Condemns Private Greed.

on a great and most important ma
tional industry.
Condemns Private Greed.
1--WE cannot too strongly condemn
operations of this kind, and trust
that the committee on Resolutions of
this Congress will present for our ad-
option a resolution on this matter set
ting the subject before the country in
no uncertain manner IL we are TO
continue i'm irrigation by private en-
terprise I'm the great arid and semi
arid parts of our nation, we must con-
stantly draw and hold the confidence
of our monied interests and investing
classes. We can not hope for such
most desirable results If for one mo-
ment we countenance those irrigation
| operations that are designed to filch
the public.
History Gives illustrations.
| History discovers TO us that irri-
cation by private enterprise has al
ways been in the van. This has been
true i'm IrNia, Syria, Babylon, Java,
under the subjects and successors of
Montezuma; i'm Chile. Peru, Argentina
and the United States. Before the
English Imperial government began
it's great work in Irrigation in India,
the people of India by private enter
prise had constructed works of var
ious types capable of irrigating twen-
ty-five millan acres of land. This
acreage has been increased to over
thirty million acres by private enter
prise; and over twenty million acres
by Imperial Government. Such has
been the history of the governments
abroad that have named; in 1901
1902 the United States of America
played the crowning act on these lines
for its people in the passage of the
Reclamation Act. However, previous
TO the enactment of this law. private
enterprise in America had reclaimed
many million acres of land by irriga-
I ton; and today the grand total by
private enterprise aggregates ovel
eleven million of acres.
Some Criticism unfounded.
= 81 have observed some illusions ol
. criticisms in the ar-eastern press
d concerning the large amounts of mon
IS ey going into private irrigation spec
= ulation'. If these references have TO d'
II with ilegitimate irrigation enterpris
es and to which have already mad'
reference, l applaud the same. If OF
the other hand reference is had to tn
immense investments that have beer
Ia and are being made in sound, com
mercial and productive irrigation en-
l. terprise, then l condemn that part
I'd the press that has used its power
ne that way. 1t is narrow and cir
le cumscribed view, and discovers grei
In lack of understanding. that toda
he would place any stumbling block
al the way of an industry whose potter
of tial force means so much to evel
ny American citizen.
he Il have many times advocated q
an great Importance of all irrigati'
Ir- companies installing a system
rn drainage bitches. am today mo
~. in earnest on this subject than eve
nd because during the past year | ha
At seen such a system, and | understa
m the first in the United states to be !
ing stalled. at Barstow. I'm the Pecos va
le- lev of West Texas. and its workin
hes more than justify the positions tn
have advocated"
Ex-cov. Adams Talks.
colorado. Conquest and Conser'
tion" was the subject of an addr'
es delivered by Ex-Governor Al
ex- Adams Of Colorado. before the n
vice 60. IL :