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tary cell, where you can meditate upon the fact that 

 you can not fool all of the people all of the time." 



So the foes of honest irrigators, the obstacles in 

 the way of homes for the people, the friends of land 



Utah, welcomed the delegates to the state, and Mayor 

 Glasmann, of Ogden, turned over to them the keys of 

 the city. Mayor Glasmann sounded the keynote of the 

 deliberations which were to follow. His language is 

 here reproduced to enable the reader to comprehend 

 the situation, and to explain many things that have only 

 been hinted at in this issue of THE IRRIGATION AGE. 

 Said he: 



'A prominent eastern newspaper has asked the 

 question, what is the need of any more irrigation con- 

 gresses now that the government has set aside the re- 

 ceipts of the public land's for the reclamation of the 

 arid West? I want to say there is more need for 

 an irrigation congress today and in the future than 

 there ever was. True, you have the money appropriated 

 by the government, but it will be the privilege and the 

 duty of this congress to see that this money is properly 

 used and not misapplied or wasted. You have a greater 

 work before you at this session than at any time during 

 the eleven years' history of the irrigation congress. You 

 must be able to provide a plan for the expenditure of 

 the millions of dollars set aside for our cause, which 



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syndicates the corporation lawyers with fat fees to se- 

 cure control of western progress or ruin it, the little 

 would-be Napoleons who saw a revolution and attempted 

 to ride it into imperial power, were all routed, thrown 

 off from the periphery of the great wheel of progress, 

 flattened, smashed, and it is to be hoped that they will 

 understand that they are a detriment and not a benefit 

 to the cause of irrigation and reclamation. 



This much was, of itself, a great master stroke, 

 and the Ogden Congress is to be congratulated that it 

 stood so sturdily against the land greedy, who fancied 

 they could transform it into a personal graft. It was 

 too big, its aims too grand, and the results it had accom- 

 plished against all obstacles too important to be thrown 

 away out of sympathy for the tears shed by those who 

 were well paid to shed them. It went on, however, and 

 did more; what that more is will appear from the fol- 

 lowing necessarily concise account of its proceedings : 



At 10 :50 o'clock a. m., the gavel of Senator Wil- 

 liam A. Clark, its president, came down sharply, and 

 the Eleventh National Irrigation Congress fell into line 

 for the business before it amid great enthusiasm and 

 surrounded by unique decorations representing desert 

 and irrigated land. Hon. Heber M. Wells, governor of 



must meet the approval of the Secretary of the Interior 

 and the National Congress. It will be your privilege 

 to adopt a system for the sale of reclaimed lands that 

 will meet the approval of the American people, a system 

 that will be a blessing to the genuine settlers. It must 



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