The daily sentinel., 1912-08-21
THE SENTINEL is RAPED BY REPUBLICAN,

By coming the defense of the reclamation service The
brand Junction Sentinel illustrates which seems TO have
been overlooked b. both board of army engineers and the
senate committee which reported work done by the reclamation
The people Of Grand Junction and other parts of the Grand
valley greatly desire the construction Of what known as the
iign Line ditch ne reclamation service occupies the field The
people have waited long They have been put off from
to year with promises They have been unable to force the
reclamation service and they think only course for them
to pursue to petition and plead Anything which might rfe
the temper OF the wound dignity has been deprecated
his the attitude OF nearly the entire comuntyespeciay Of
those members OF who real which would be reclaimed
by means Of the proposed ditch.
The Sentinel IS under less obligation to respond to
the sentiment OF the people 1t could hardly be expected to do
concerning matter not OF principle but of policy The
Denver Republican itself has Difference the wishes OF the
people OF the Oand valley efraned from attacking the reoama-
uon service as vigorously as might Justice have DONE
count Of its attitude toward ditch in that valley
While blame The Sentinel severely for falling
INTO line with the hopes OF large number OF its readers its a
tudc shows how little commission committee can expect to
obtain impartial expressions Of sentiment regard the work
OF the reclamation service from members of community which
hopes to derive some benefit from that work
In its defense Just referred against criticism Of the eca
nation service which appeared the Republican on the 10th
inst, he Sentinel does dispute single word Of what the
Republican said 1t could dispute for brief and
simple the fact that although the reclamation s
had occupied the Grand Valley field for nearly ten years it had
not reclaimed single square foot OF ground that valley To
this added the statement which no one can DENY thar the
had been left private enterprise the work would have
been done long that the land be reclaimed would now
is not paatable, and The Sentinel takes offense
he truth that the reclamation service in large measure
an obstructive factor 1t nterfecs with development which the
people would bring about If they let alone
It not organized for that purpose. But should be
SAID that has been sorc tempted undertake work which
ought to let alone There be less of the old spirit
individual initiative among the people than there used be- They
more than their look the govern
ment hey forget that in this country government rarely
efficient enterprise So communities mplorc
reclamation service do work which they ought do themselves
his part for the fact that the has committed
itself number of projects which would NOT have
undertaken.
In addition, there the disposition of oasm to crowd
itself in wherever there may be opening 1t
caed with assumption that construction work like that
of the reclamation service the rights Of oasm superior
to those OF private citizens he work of the reclamation
important than that of private Individuals but the
service think In consequence ntereres with pri
vatc enterprise and it does behalf of projects of
which not be completed many years In
parazes private effort aud checks the development of
the country.-Ihe Denver Republican.