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THE IERIGATION AGE. 



CORRESPONDENCE 



WANTS INFORMATION REGARDING PACKING 

 ATTACHMENT. 



Mr. D. H. Anderson. 



Dear Sir: I have put in this year 75 acres of valley 

 land under irrigation. I had the land grubbed, cleared 

 and fenced last year, plowed part in the fall and the 

 balance this spring. I am located on the N. Llano River 

 in Kimble County. I bought and had erected thereon a 

 25 horse-power gasoline engine and 6-inch Centrifugal 

 Pump and commenced irrigating this spring. The land 

 is a gray, sandy loam, very porous and absorbs a great 

 deal of water, and I am told will for one or more years. 

 In reading over your Primer of Irrigation, I notice what 

 you say as to the packing of the bottom of the furrow on 

 page 109, and I believe that if I can do it that I will 

 thereby economize a great deal of water and also benefit 

 my crops. I have written to two large implement firms 

 as to a packer attachment, but they don't seem to know 

 of any such plow attachment, so I take the liberty of 

 writing to you for a favor, which is to please furnish me 

 with the name of a firm from whom I can purchase said 

 attachment for my plows, and if said firm is located in 

 Chicago please request them to furnish me with descrip- 

 tion and price of same, thereby saving time; also furnish 

 me with name of firm, also name of attachment, if any 

 besides packer attachment. Thanking you in advance, 

 I remain, Yours truly, 



C. L. DUNBAR, 

 Junction, Kimble Co., Texas. 



Can any of our readers give the desired information 

 to Mr. Dunbar? It will be appreciated and may be sent 

 to THE IRRIGATION AGE for publication. Editor. 



MORE LIGHT ON THE FINANCIAL QUESTION. 



To the Editor: 



The very first effective move against the real cause 

 of the country's most serious trouble was made on the 

 eighth of July by Representative Lindbergh, of Minne- 

 sota, when he introduced a resolution proposing an in- 

 vestigation by a house committee of nine members to 

 determine if there exists a combination of financial inter- 

 ests in the United States operating in restraint of trade. 

 The scope of the resolution includes an examination of 

 the banking, money, exchange, credit and deposit systems 

 of the country, and recommendations for remedial legis- 

 lation. In proposing this action, Mr. Lindbergh declared 

 that "Wall street brought on the panic of 1907, and if it 

 dares will produce another panic to pass the Aldrich 

 central bank plan." "We need reform," he added, "but 

 not at the hands of Wall street." It is Wall street that 

 needs reforming. 



July 26th, Mr. Lindbergh went before the house 

 rules committee, to which his resolution had been re- 

 ferred, and after hearing him, the committee decided to 

 report it favorably, and to ask that the investigation be 

 made either by the monetary commission or the house 

 committee on banking and currency, probably the latter. 

 This brings the matter up to a point where the govern- 

 ment will have to take some kind of action, and with Mr. 

 Lindbergh to press it, backed as he will be by the entire 

 west, the investigation will have to be thorough. 



The west having suffered far more severely than any 

 other part of the country from the merciless operation- 

 of the banking trust, it becomes at once the urgent duty 

 of every western man to furnish Mr. Lindbergh all pos- 

 sible assistance, not only in the form of moral support 

 and public agitation, but by evidences of the acts of this 

 pernicious trust and its agents, and the effects of those 

 acts, direct or indirect, upon the prosperity of the country 

 and the rights, freedom and material interests of indi- 

 viduals. These acts and their consequences are well 



enough known to practically every western man of affairs 

 and every such man has suffered by them. It is an un- 

 disputed fact that all who have been interested in the 

 most important activity of these times, the extension of 

 cultivable land areas by reclamation or other means, have 

 felt the heavy hand of Wall street in checking and pre- 

 venting all such improvements and all movements whereby 

 our people have wanted to acquire new lands or go into 

 newly opened regions of greater fertility than the old. 

 All evidences that will help place that fact before con- 

 gress and the nation should be given to Mr. Lindbergh. 

 The efforts of banks to prevent depositors from with- 

 drawing money for the purpose of making land purchases 

 are acts of this kind, and should be reported. So should 

 all letters from bankers in any part of the country, dis- 

 couraging land purchases or the investment of private 

 funds in irrigation projects. Whoever has knowledge of 

 the acts of bank examiners in throwing out securities 

 based on land values should tell what he knows in order 

 that the bankers and examiners themselves may be 

 brought before the commission and compelled under oath 

 to tell by whose orders these high handed acts were per- 

 petrated, in order to bring the hidden assassins to light 

 and have their power destroyed. The Whole iniquitous 

 scheme has been carried on so boldly and openly that 

 most of it is known to many men in the places most 

 affected. These men should come forward. 



In two preceding articles published by the IRRIGATION 

 AGE and widely copied throughout the west, I have pointed 

 out the evils against which Mr. Lindbergh's aim is di- 

 rected and have called attention to specific wrongs, and 

 suggested a remedy. In one of these letters I protested 

 against the proposed Aldrich plan. Mr. Lindbergh bears 

 out what I then said. He says: 



"Under the Aldrich plan the reserve association will 

 take away from communities funds that belong to the 

 communities and which should be used to build up their 

 own industries. Of the forty-five directors proposed for 

 the association, twelve are to be elected on the basis of 

 (bank) stock representation, and of course would be 

 elected by the Wall street crowd, for the capital of this 

 country is now controlled to the extent of eighty per 

 cent by three thousand persons and concerns." 



Back of these three thousand are a half dozen bloated 

 spiders of finance, sitting in the middle of the web at 

 Wall and Broad streets, and from that little area directing 

 all the others in the diversion of the people's money to 

 their meshes. It is not conceivable that this state of 

 things can continue. The west, at least, will not endure 

 it. The Aldrich plan must be forestalled, the financial 

 spiderweb swept away, and the big spiders smashed. 



After the investigation there must be the remedial 

 legislation indicated in the resolution. What that legisla- 

 tion may be must depend largely upon the pressure of 

 public sentiment, operating through congress. If Mr. 

 Lindbergh succeeds in engineering the investigation 

 through successfully and a system of real banking can be 

 set up in the place of the monstrous abuse that now goes 

 by that name, Mr. Lindbergh, himself, will have earned 

 the right to be called another Lincoln, for he will have 

 freed his country from a new slavery, where the actual 

 producers and earners are nothing more than the chattels 

 of Wall street, through the operation of the greatest and 

 most vicious trust the world has ever known. 



J. C. O'Neill. 



WANTS INFORMATION ON IRRIGATION. 



Mr. D. H. Anderson, 



Editor IRRIGATION AGE: 



I have been a reader of your paper, THE IRRIGATION 

 AGE, for several years; have your book, "The Primer of 

 Irrigation," and have given a great deal of thought to 

 the subject of irrigation. While I have always lived in 

 regions of so-called abundant rainfall, yet I have always 

 believed that with plenty of water at the proper time the 

 production of crops could be more than doubled even in 

 the so-called "rain belt," but until the present time I have 

 never had opportunity to try out my ideas, because I had 

 no land of my own to work on. 



Now I have a little farm of about ninety acres inside 

 the limits of the village of St. Paul Park, Minnesota, just 



