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To go more into detail would be beyond the scope of this article, but 

 the broad underlying principles which should control in the framing of a 

 state system are well stated in the following extract from the declaration 

 of principles of "The Irrigation Propaganda," an association which is 

 now extending its organization throughout California: 



"Wa believe that the irrigation district system has inherent 

 defects which can only be obviated by a state system under which the 

 state would acquire, construct, own and control the irrigation system, 

 the right to the water for irrigation to be granted by the state and in- 

 here in the lands irrigated, which should ultimately bear the cost of con- 

 struction and maintenance in proportion to the benefits received, the 

 share to be borne by each tract of land to be fixed and segregated, and 

 no lands to be burdened without benefit or without the original consent 

 of the owner." 



The general purposes of this association are set forth as follows, in 

 its constitution: 



"Its purpose is to awaken an active interest in and to promote irri- 

 gation development and to relieve the conditions of disaster which have 

 arisen in the irrigation districts under the operations of the irrigation 

 district system, and to aid in inaugurating and carrying on an educa- 

 tional campaign to arouse the people to a realization of the far reaching 

 benefits which would result to all classes from the construction of state 

 and national irrigation works and federal storage, reservoirs." 



FARRAGUT TO DEWEY. 



Said the Goddess of Fame to the pedestaled 

 shape 



Of Farragut looming on high: 

 "Move over a bit on your pedestal, man 



For a twin-born of Fame draweth nigh' 

 Move over a bit,give him room at yourside, 



A trifle of space you must spare 

 For the first of the sons of the sea of our 

 day. 



So make room for Dewey up there." 



"And who is this Dewey?" the gray shade 

 replies. 



"He is one of your sailors," said Fame, 

 "And the sea winds that blow on both 

 sides of the world 



Are loud with the sound of his name, 

 Wiihout losing a ship, or a gun, or a man, 



Spain's navy he sunk in the sea." 

 Said Farragut then to the new son of Fame: 



"Approach and come up here with me." 

 Sam Walter Foss. 



