The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-11

will not be denied their right to punish
those who have wantonly neglected
them in their hour of need"
The Recorder dislil1es Ia in any
way enter into such a campaign as
what must come this year. It dis
likes to bring up old scores to at
tack any one individually or as q
/ public officer, to in any way seen,
to say and have to prove that even
a few things are wrong in Idaho.
But rather wholesale attach
on the Carey Act land business Of
Idaho is no small matter; and
whenever it is made-as it is being
made, for political purposes-it is
the Recorders duty to tell what
it conceives to be the truth. so
that the good may be distinguished
from the bad, the true from the
false.
There have been, and are, some
successful Carey Act projects in
Idaho. The Twin Falls project.
the Idaho Irrigation Company prof
ect and the North Side project af-
ter some vicissitudes, are all Of the
very best They have the land
the water, the people; all have beer
tested and proven good. And these
are not the only good ones in Ida
no. In general, the Carey Act law
has worked out better than most |
new laws that really Start some
thing
But Of course, there has been a
flock of cormorants following
these successful projects. There
were some great gold mines in the
Black Hills, in California, in Gel
orado, in Alaska, in every land
where gold is found. But follow
ing every gold rush, came the ire
sponsibles, the incapables, the TN
lawfuls, who rushed in to capital
ize some ones good name. Some
Of these were honest; some were
not
But the result was the same,
whether it was an honest misjudg-
nent of conditions, or a wilful per-
version of conditions. The imita-
tors or those who were mistaken
in the value of their holdings
failed. And Of course, those who
invoked the laws for their own
aggrandizement, failed just as la
mentally as any others, when they
lad not the goods to back their
,lains.
The Carey Act business is just
ike gold mining, or farming, or
ieling town lots, or farm lands, or
,oal, anything else that is market
ID. If you don't have the goods
'ou profess, some one will be de
.eived either the seller, or the
,uyer, or both. If the state laws
re laxly enforced. the settler gets
title or no protection That is tn.
thing about the Carey
Act law-it has not always been
veil enforced.
It is the duty Of the state land I
oard to Sc that there is a suffi- 4
lent water supply, and sufficient
apital in sight back of the con-
truction enterprise, to protect the +
uyers who depend on this as a
sgal guarantee If the land board +
) lax, the fly-by-night promoter,
r the honest investor who believes
e has enough water or enough
honey or a good enough site for
dam and canals, and hasn't, can
nd will get in wrong; and nine
mes out of ten, the settlers who
elieve the state is actually look
lg after their interests, will suffer :
lore than the promoters.
1t is unfortunately true that, as
ldicated in the above article, not
lough blood and iron was mani
sst in the governors office during
lie years l000-l0-the period COW
ring the most disastrous Carey
ct operations in Idaho 1t is not
easant to recall these things; it =
not profitable, save as it becomes
in order to show up why
Id how such wholesale attacks as
at which seems to come from Z
enator Brady, are made. But it
ems a duty to show that fhe cry