THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XVIII. 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1903. 



No. 12. 



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EDITORIAL 



Congressman Keeder, of Kansas, speaking 

 The Schemes in favor of the Maxwell scheme to aid 

 Behind the the dear people by taking all the public- 

 Opponents land away from them for fear it will be 

 of Repeal. stolen, said before the Ogden Congress 

 with marked bitterness : "The foes of 

 repeal must have some private schemes to further or 

 they would not be angered over the prospect of doing 

 away with these laws." 



They did have private schemes, one of which was 

 to prevent the destruction of homes by the repeal of the 

 land laws. Another scheme was to defeat the design 

 of turning over 100,000,000 acres of public lands to 

 syndicates and land grabbers, sooners, squatters, and 

 bogus entry men, who would have the homeseekers at 

 their mercy. If under the present land laws these 

 gentlemen can steal 25,000,000 acres of public land 

 per annum, as is charged by Mr. George H. Maxwell, 

 how much would they steal if there was nothing to 

 hinder them? 



The opponents of repeal were not only angry, they 

 were mad all the way through to think that such a 

 bare faced proposition could be broached by apparently 

 intelligent men. When Congressman Reeder and the 

 others can show that they are in this thing for ths 

 sake of humanity and not for a fee, their vitupera- 

 tions may be entitled to more respect. 



The party holding down the safety valve 

 Something of the Arizona Republican, fell off the 

 of a other day and let the "thing blow off." 



Nightmare. Either that, or, afflicted with a night- 

 mare through over cramming on Max- 

 well delicatessen, he imagined the editor of THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE camping on his epigastrium. He was so 

 mad he slapped his wrist to think that we contemplated 

 running the Ogden congress all by ourself. Well, we 

 might have done better than his friend Maxwell with 

 one hand tied behind our back. 



We have a collection of interesting valu- 

 Valuable able, practical and scientific articles on 

 Matter the subjects of Drainage and Irrigation 



to Come. for the columns of THE IRRIGATION AGE 



during the coming year. They have been 

 specially prepared for our columns by the greatest 

 living experts and practical men of the age in all coun- 

 tries. On account of the pressure of matter connected 

 with the Eleventh Irrigation Congress, they have been 

 necessarily omitted, but they will appear from now 

 on. Our readers can scarcely attribute their omission 

 as a, fault if they will stop to consider the importance 

 of the Congress held last month at Ogden. The lat- 

 ter has reiterated its intention to preserve the homes 

 of the irrigation farmers of sixteen states and terri- 

 tories, and with that esablished as a fact, THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE feels at liberty to devote more space to 

 the manner of utilizing and making those homes pro- 

 ductive and profitable. 



