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How long it will be possible to keep up this dis- 

 reputable affront is a question. So long as communi- 

 cations fall by the wayside, so long as complaints fail 

 to reach the executive, and fall into the hands of the 

 Philistines to be duly smothered, it will endure. But 

 when someone with sufficient courage and brains 

 smashes through their guarded battlements and lays 

 the matter before the President himself, then will come 

 the carpet, rack and sifting, which will clear the de- 

 partment of the blot on its escutcheon. 



OUR FRIEND ORENDORFF. 



That the National Irrigation Association is in- 

 sufficient for the requirements of the times, is evidenced 

 by the Talisman, which is recently inspired to say that 

 "in all probability the Irrigation Congress at Portland 

 would be the last of any importance." Why the last? 

 Because Boothe and Maxwell are to withdraw their 

 beneficent influence ? Do these two men opine that they 

 are indispensable to anything labelled "Irrigation"? 

 This old world has a peculiar attribute of jarring our 

 sensibilities when our opinions of ourselves are unduly 

 elevated. 



These gentlemen remind us in a way of Alfred 

 Henry Lewis' pup. After Alfred had shot a bear the 

 pup seized it viciously and violently threw its own 

 little body from side to side, then strutted around on 

 its toes, happy in the delusion that it had shaken the 

 bear. The Irrigation Congress is too big a thing to be 

 even perceptibly jarred by this interesting combina- 

 tion. 



What reason is there why the future Congress 

 should not grow in importance as the acreage and num- 

 ber of homes under irrigation increases? Is there any 

 reason why interest should lag even if Boothe and 

 Maxwell were transported? Can a man or institution 

 boast of unselfish zeal for the cause of irrigation and 

 undertake to discredit and destroy the National Irri- 

 gation Congress? It is the one place that delegates 

 go without hire and inspired only by the good of the 

 cause. And now the only men who ever received per- 

 sonal advantage from association therewith pronounce 

 its doom. Shall we accuse them of ingratitude and 

 ulterior motives? Or do such suspicions arise from 

 our own stupid, uncomprehending perversity? 



Had not the Congress at Portland formally re- 

 pudiated the National Irrigation Association, the city 

 of Boise and the State of Idaho might have had occa- 

 sion to rebuke this wholly unnecessary affront. Under 

 the circumstances, however, Monte Gwinn can con- 

 gratulate his municipality and commonwealth that 

 the Congress to be held in Boise will be free from 

 entangling alliances, and interwoven similarity of 

 names will not confuse us obtuse laymen as before. 



We are presenting herewith a half-tone portrait of 

 Mr. U. G. Orendorff, who has recently been elected 

 president of the Illinois' Manufacturers' Association. 

 To those who know Mr. Orendorff no word of commen- 

 dation is necessary. For the benefit of our readers 

 who are not, however, acquainted with the gentleman, we 

 will say that he is one of the best known manufacturers 

 of agricultural implements in the United States, and is 

 an all around good fellow, a sportsman of the cleaner 

 sort, and we predict that the Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion will find that they have as well an extremely able 



U. G. ORENDORFF. 



man at their head. Mr. Orendorff has been prominent 

 in other organizations of manufacturers, among them 

 the National Association of Manufacturers of Agri- 

 cultural Implements and Vehicles. His home is at 

 Canton, 111., where the great manufacturing plant of 

 the Parlin & Orendorff Company is also located. This 

 house is one of the largest of its kind in the world and 

 has branches at Kansas City, Portland, St. Louis, In- 

 dianapolis, Dallas, Denver, Omaha, Des Moines, Minne- 

 apolis and Winnipeg. 



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