THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



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IS NEWELL TRYING TO MAKE 



SERFS OUT OF THE WATER USERS? 



(Continued from Page 111.) 



letter, announcing a shortage of water and stating 

 that water will be furnished only for onions and 

 beets. That leaves the farmer with only four acres 

 of his crop for which he can get water. When he 

 harvests his onions he finds everyone else has also 

 raised onions and he cannot even get the cost of 

 freight out of them if he ships them. Therefore he 

 and many other farmers haul them to the slough to rot. 

 This has actually happened on the Truckee-Carson proj- 

 ect. It has been the same story with potatoes and other 

 'money crops,' while water has been refused for alfalfa and 

 grains, those crops, which mean the very existence of the 

 homesteader and his livestock. In their mad effort to get 

 vast production in dollars per acre from the federal irri- 

 gated lands, Newell and his theorists have overlooked the 

 practical side of this subject, and if they are permitted to 

 go on much longer trying to enforce their theories, we 

 settlers will all become just mere serfs, as well as bank- 

 rupt. We will be human sacrifices, placed on the altar 

 in the temples of Mammon into which Newell and his 

 retainers are trying to turn the government projects, 

 through their theory of water only for the crops that 

 if they could be sold would pay the most money. 



"Then they go even further. Their whole doctrine re- 

 solves it into the proposition : Shall the farmer work for the 

 whole of mankind or shall he look out for himself and his 

 family? I do not believe the' settler has .sacrificed his indi- 

 vidual rights in taking up an irrigated homestead ; neither do 

 I believe he has agreed fo work for the general public first 

 and himself and family second. This theory is un-American 

 and Americans reared in the love of liberty and justice are 

 not going to stand for it. No one except a band of theorists, 

 such as has controlled the Federal projects, would have even 

 thought of trying to put such ideas into force." 



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