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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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ned to be permanent in itscharacter and complete in its develop-ment. In many of the private enter-prises head-works, flumes and otherstructures are usually built of wood.Ditches are dug to be enlarged. Thegovernment builds, however, with aview to all the land that can be developedand each structure is as strong as can bemade in stone, concrete and steel. The building and control of irrigation-plants as a national enterprise is anothersilver-plated screw in the lead coffin oflaissez-faire. It is revolutionary andepoch-making. The success of the na-tion is so overwhelmingly brilliant in itswhole conception and prosecution of theenterprise that it will certainly lead tothe building and control of other publicutilities and benefits, and what is as in-exorable as logic and inevitable as death,the eventual federal control of all humannecessities. This paper would be incomplete with-out a glimpse at the reverse side of the Digitized by Google Uncle Sams Romance with Science and the Soil. 45
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.GOVERNMENT CEMENT-MILL AT ROOSEVELT. This mill makes 8*0 barrels of cement a day at a ooit of 12.20 per barrel, operation and material! and ftrtt cod qfmiUbeing charged against the flnt 220,000 barrels. The cost by shipping would hare been 10.00 per barrel. picture. We have seen the fruits of pa-triotic nationality. Let us see the logicaland legitimate fruits of laissez-faire. If President Roosevelts stand is welltaken, that in river-control the govern-ment is justifiable in legislating in riverand harbor bills at one end of the river,it is also justifiable in legislating forwater-storage reservoirs at the other.So should the contention receive supportthat if the national Reclamation Actsare justified in creating new farms, fields,homes and gardens from the arid anddesolate plain; that the governmentshould also legislate against the con-spiracy of gold-dredging land-destroyersin California and elsewhere which isturning some of the garden-spots of theworld into desolate and irredeemab

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