Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXX 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1915. 



No. 12 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARU HERALD 



THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



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When T. Roosevelt became a gen- 

 Perhaps It's eral in the phonetic spelling brigade, 

 Because He he seems also to have acquired a lot 

 Spells It of "phoney" ideas. One of these is 



"Thot" that the people forget. 



And on this theory, T. Roose- 

 velt agents are reported scouting in the West for 

 delegates to nominate the colonel for president on 

 the Republican ticket. 



We doubt very much if this kind of "phoney" 

 politics will work. 



Mr. Roosevelt may succeed in knocking some 

 "ugh's" out of thought, but we doubt if the Federal 

 Water Users will let him knock out of their thoughts 

 the fact that he permitted his name to be used in an 

 attempt to restore F. H. Newell to power in the 

 Reclamation Service. And the water users, if they 

 want to do so, can pretty nearly control eleven of 

 the Western states, in which Mr. Roosevelt is re- 

 ported seeking aid. 



We doubt also whether the West will forget 

 that Mr. Roosevelt has been very friendly to the 

 impracticable conservation ideas of Millionaire Gif- 

 ford Pinchot. The West does not want to waste 

 her resources. She wants to use them, and she 

 should do so. No conservation program which re- 

 tards legitimate development is or will be satisfac- 

 tory to the West. 



Congressman W. E. Humphrey, of 

 Mr. Lane and Seattle, Wash., has written a re- 

 the Service markable letter to Assistant Secre- 

 Should Obey tary of the Interior Sweeney. The 

 the Law letter referred to an Indian reserva- 



tion opening, but one paragraph of 

 it might apply equally well to the respect shown 

 to the Reclamation Act by Mr. Lane, his body serv- 

 ant, Comptroller Ryan and the balance of the Recla- 

 mation Service. Here it is : 



"When the 'soap box orator' counsels his de- 

 luded admirers not to obey the law, we excuse him 

 in pity on the ground of ignorance, but what excuse 

 shall we give for government officials of intelligence, 

 specially charged to obey and carry out the will of 

 the people as expressed by law? A former distin- 

 guished secretary of the interior taxed credulity and 

 shocked common sense by solemnly declaring that 

 the head of an executive department of the govern- 

 ment had the right to do anything that the statutes 

 did not specifically prohibit. But now it seems, 

 from the tone of your letter, that one more step is 

 to be taken and the doctrine announced that a de- 

 partment is under no obligations to obey a law that 

 does not meet with its approval even if it is ex- 

 pressly written upon the statutes. I know that you 

 agree with me that such doctrine is dangerous and 

 open to strongest condemnation." 



We urge Mr. Lane and his man servant to read 

 the Water Users' section of the Reclamation Act 

 and then study over their own acts concerning these 



