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THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



of men who would be content with a mere living will 

 not have ambition to move hitherward, and would be 

 of little use in a new community. 



"THERE is so much to do, and so little done." A 

 toiler will do more and deserves more than a half dozen 

 indolents. If national duty includes support of incom- 

 petent or shiftless citizens, let the patrimony carry this 

 condition. Recipient must remain away from localities 

 where industry is such an absolute essential to prevent 

 failure. In areas being reclaimed, inducements should 

 be sufficient to attract ambitious, thrifty men. 



PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has cautioned magazine 

 writers and newspaper correspondents against irre- 

 sponsible, unguarded or erroneous verbosity. An unfair 

 attack will have reactionary effect; an untrue accusa- 

 tion dulls the lance of justice. 



HONEST endeavor must applaud executive utter- 

 ance. Heretofore these notes have affirmed that unjust 

 accusation would provoke revolt. Imputed evil pur- 

 pose, or wrongfully assailing character, with hope of 

 forcing honorable critics to irrelevant or inconsiderate 

 remark, is one policy of graft. 



UNFORTUNATELY, favorites in fiction have left the 

 vistas where they shine as stellar luminaries. 'David 

 Graham Phillips, Alfred Henry Lewis and Jack Lon- 

 don have invaded labyrinthian jungles of political phil- 

 osophy. Classical attainments and imagination, which 

 serve so well as adjuncts in literary triumphs, creates 

 sad havoc when applied to finarcial and political essays. 



FOR the sake of their own reputations, also because 

 of a hope for a sane adjudication of chaotic conditions, 

 we are impelled to urge our literary friends to exercise 

 moderation; or, better still, to avoid and abandon an 

 endeavor which their endowments and equipment ren- 

 ders a perilous pursuit, a dangerous fancy to indulge. 



WHILE frenzied financiering merits severe rebuke, 

 while frenzied scriveners are poisoning a public mind, 

 also are frenzied policies indulged in some departments 

 of our national government. Slop-over zealots have 

 untruthfully assailed Western character, and told the 

 world that the West is full of perjurers and thieves. 

 The general accusation almost assures real criminals 

 an immunity, and honest men, to extricate themselves 

 from embarrassing entanglements, appear in mesalli- 

 ances and unenviable situations. 



RIGOROUS policies where crime exists may be the 

 only plan for its eradication, but publications group- 

 ing half-constructed initial homestead habitations under 

 a "fraudulent" caption (published by courtesy of United 



States) would indicate frenzied officialdom. And all 

 of these malpractices originate in those divisions dom- 

 inated by Messrs. Newell and Pinchot. Although occa- 

 sionally censure falls on Mr. Richards, a guerdon for 

 reposing confidence in irresponsible, co-ordinate fellows. 



THE PRESIDENT'S admonition to the press is timely, 

 and we indulge the opportunity to suggest a weeding 

 of the Executive Garden. The Newell-Pinchot type has 

 not exemplified the cardinal principles of American cit- 

 izenship. They possess attributes of tyranny and qual- 

 ities of incapacity and untruth. Lesser lights erratic, 

 egotistical engineers, Field of the North Platte, Ross 

 of the Minidoka, and their kindred spirits, might be 

 reduced to spheres of usefulness by puncturing their 

 bubbles of conceit. 



ENTHUSIASM in the work of building up communi- 

 ties has made us bold in our endeavor to catch the Pres- 

 ident's eye. Not like the contemporaneous editor of the 

 Talisman, with impudent challenge and deliberate ef- 

 front, but with effort born of hope that the new and 

 Greater West will contain more of the same big-hearted, 

 self-reliant fellows who have won the admiration of a 

 world. 



THE FARMER TO BLAME. 



If His Land Suffers From Drought or Lacks Water for 



Irrigating, When Small Stream Is Nearby, 



Says Robert Washburn. 



"It is the farmer's own fault if, in these days of 

 scientific discovery, he does not reap all the returns he 

 should from his land, be it located wherever or how- 

 ever it may, in or without the rain belt, so long as there 

 is a small stream with a slight fall nearby." Such was 

 the remark the other day of Mr. Robert Washburn, a 

 man of wide experience in agriculture, horticulture 

 and individual irrigation enterprises throughout the 

 great Pacific Northwest, being at present an extensive 

 owner and operator of Rogue River lands. "Devasta- 

 tion to crops as a result of droughts and barrenness 

 of land from lack of water are two evils that can easily 

 be overcome," continued Mr. Washburn, "if the flow 

 of a little stream is only utilized by any one of the 

 modern mechanical devices now being made for just 

 such work and are already accomplishing for many the 

 desired results. The simplest and most inexpensive 

 of these devices for elevating the water of a stream to 

 a higher level is, perhaps, the hydraulic ram. It is 

 a self-pumping engine that is rapidly fulfilling the 

 need of the farmer and small irrigationist for a sure 

 scheme of getting out of the land all those bountiful 

 returns yielded where water is plentiful." 



Send $2.50 for The Irritation Age 

 1 yeo.r. and the Primer of Irrigation 



