Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-10-15
INTEREST IN IRRIGATION.

The widespread interest which the farmers Of
Montana are manifesting in irrigation projects
should be encouraging and pleasing to the men
Of the state who are devoting much time and
energy to perfecting an organization which will
have for its object the boosting Of this great de-
velopment policy in a general way, but along def
mite lines. The business men of Great Falls and
Of northern Montana have taken the lead in the
matter Of furthering irrigation and now comes
the agreeable information from Helena that from
many agricultural sections in different parts of
the state the farmers are applying to the newly
created Montana irrigation commission for ex-
animation and approval of various irrigation
projects.
A maze of big bitches carrying water through
and onto Montana farm lands will send this state
ahead so fast that the widest caperings of the
imagination will fail to keep pace with it's pro-
gress. Present indications are that lakes will
be tapped, rivers will be diverted, creeks formed
into reservoirs and the great farming regions of
the state be made to bloom as a rose in conse-
quence.
All Of which presages an era of development
and enrichment for Montana which will extend
over period of years. 1t will take a tremendous
amount of money to undertake and complete all
of the irrigation projects which are now being
considered But no sum is too great if the pro-
ject be a feasible one, and the bigger it is the
better No debt which farmer can carry with
safety will be too great for him. to incur if as
result he is to be supplied with the water which
win insure him against future crop failures That
goal once reached the obligations which he has
shouldered will disappear as if by magic and the
!, treasure state become almost over night spIen-
did commonwealth Of big red barns and big
white houses.
| It is fair mark to aim at
I A Chicago grand jury suggests that iails be
made unpopular with prisoners by means of
monographs which will start grinding early in
the morning and keep it up till late at night We
Y have different scheme. Let's put the prisoners
into flats and apartment houses and keep the jail
| as refuge for those citizens who seek place
where the phonograph and the player piano are
| not.
Hiram Johnson describes his speaking tour in
opposition to the League Of Nations as a
triumph for Americanism" We take it that
the California senator does not include in this
remark reference to the storm of protest that is
II boiHB w from HIo own state dL MS attitude
against the peace treaty
Republicans have abandoned all hope of re-
vising the income tax downward says Wash
ington dispatch, which also states that the esti-
mated deficit in government revenue this year
is between two and three billion dollars Tighten
up your belts fellows. They're going to hit US
again.
We are anxious that the farmer live long and
prosper, but may heaven help us if the tilIer Of
the soil insists upon remuneration equallng a
union wage based upon the hours of work that
he puts in as proposed at the round table confer
ence now being held at Washington
These must be days Of real sport for those
former members Of the German military machine
now engaged with the Russian armies, bolshevik
or otherwise, who are cutting didoes in the Baltic
provinces and advancing on Petrograd.
It must be pleasing to the ministers of the
country to see one Of their number, "the flying
parson," making good 'sky pilot" in literal
sense of which Bret Harte never dreamed
Tttoni's acceptance of President Wilson's plan
to make Fume of buffer state differs somewhat
from the scheme of dAnnunzios d to make it q
'buffer' state
WELL SAY THEY COULDN'T
(i.os Angeles Times
They routing the reds III Russia but they
to be able to do it in the National League
CAN'T HE LET Billy REST A MINUTE?
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