The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-02-24
MONDAY, FEBRUARY ~. 1919
THE LINK RIVER DAM

Continuing his Fourth" reason
why you should vote against testing
the contract with the Power company.
Mr. Offield tells you that if this step
is taken you will repudiate your
contract with the government. Wa
y0u, and if so, why9 You have met
every demand of the goyernmen. 10
date: ii has nc. done so. Are the
people of this project to be led
around by the nose at the whim of 4
few government officials? Are they
going to lie right down and lei them
walk over them? Are they going TO
keep still and let everything they
own, everything they have paid for
be delivered over to someone else? Is
it necessary in order to get through
a onc-sided contract that the land
owners must surrender every right
they now have? This is what Mr..
Cfi;eld asks you to do. Why does he
take such keen interest in this par
ticdlar contract? Would ii not be
more fitting if he manifested the
same interest in the welfare of the
project, and. like some of his prede>
cessors, try to hang onto everything
that belongs to it instead of trying to
tissipate it? When Abel Ady was
alive he fought everyone and every
thing to a standstill, and succeeded in
getting reduction of SIS an acre for
the first unit, without surrendering
single right the people had. When
he died the government repudiated
that agreement. raised the charge to
the original amount, and is now try
ing to take away everything except
ing to Mr.. Offield. the land owners
have nothing but the right to the use
of the water. Well, il that is the
situation the sooner the people Of
the klamath Project find out that
they have been swindled the better
II testing of the contract with the
Power company knocks out the con-
tract between the district and the
government-and We cannot for the
life of us see how it will-let it knock
it out. The land owners should stand
on their rights once and for all, and
find out whether they are going to
run their own affairs or be robbed.
The readers of the Herald are ask
ed to carefully read the letters sub
mitted by Mr.. Bradbury and publish
ed in this issue. The one from Mr.
Elder is particularly illuminating.
Some who have a personal grievance
against Mr.. Bradbury, and who, be-
cause of this personal feeling cannot
see their own interests in this dam
question, have made the statement
that Mr.. Bradbury should have op-
posed this contract when he was on
the board of directors of the Water
Users Association. These letters
speak for themselves. They show
that Mr.. Bradbury is not travelling |
under false colors. and that he has
always been where he is today-on
the side of the land owners. An
analysis of these letters will show to
the people that the efforts to secure
this contract have not all been con-
fined to Klamath Falls and klamath
County, and they show the same lax
ity of interest on the part of the
Washington officials as is apparent .
here, when the rights of the land
owners were at stake. 1t is hard for
one to quietly read such documents
as these and review this whole ques-
tion without being filed with bitter
ness at the attempted injustice. There
are men on the Klamath, Project who
have been on the verge of insanity be-
pause of their efforts to meet the cost
III construction There are others
who lost everything they had and had
o abandon their ranches and go on.
with their wives and children work.
No for others. There is not a one
Who did not find the charges a bur-
len. And yet. these people are ex'