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2 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY H of some "influence" Llinn a weak or wickod Hj public servant clioson by Lho unlrammeled B voice of the people -which isn't lho voice of H God, by a wholo lot. H What is a free choice of Lho people? Was H ever a candidate oloolod whose sponsors didn't Hj bank on holp from sonio organization, some H. class, some influence? Is the science of politics H so utterly unknown as to pormit tho belief that, H oither hero or olsowhoro, tho candidate's H strength is unconsidered? Isn't an olomont of H that strength jiis ability to got support from H some already organized influonco? Tho Knights H of Pythias ton years ago ran tho politics of In- H diana. In some states it is tho Masons; in some, H tho Catholics. Methodists mado a governor of H Colorado. The Scandinavians mado John Lind H govornor, and sent Knuto Nolson to tho United H States sonato and did a mighty good job both H timos, at that. If the Southern Pacific once in- H fluencod the politics of California, the anti- H Southern Pacific sentiment gave the state's H worst administration. And the labor unions H fastened on San Francisco tho shame of Abe Hji llouf, and a criminal mayor. H Thoro is no free oloction, and thore nover H will bo. No candidato will put up his head with H1 the challongo that ho dospisos any organization H and wants none of its holp at tho polls unless H by so doing ho can court tho holp of an organ- H ization beliovod to bo stronger. H' Nationality, fratornity, occupation, goog- B, raphy all holp. Why, Grant in 'G8 carried H stato after stato booauso ho had boon a tanner H' and ho wasn't much of a tanner, oither. We H boosted Hancock booauso ho was "suporb" at H Gettysburg, and Garilold because he worked on H a canal, and Grovor Cleveland because ho wasn't H afraid of all the Maria Ilalpins this side of Uo- H bokon, and Bryan booauso ho lovod our preoious H silver, and Parker because wo thought ho could H carry New York state, and McKinley booauso H Mark Ilanna was back of him, and Roosovolt H because ho could rope a stoor, and Taft booauso Hoosovolt told us to, and Wilson booauso What H' did wo boost Wilson for? H But it all comes back to this: A candidate H is going to bo holpod, or ho won't win. You H may call that holp by whatovor name you want H to call it, but it is a holp aside from, foreign to, H and independent of, tho spontaneous uninflu- H onood choice of tho individual oitizon. And H onoo you concede tho point, tho objection to in- H fluonco in tho selection of an office holder goes H glimmoring. H Now, don't got tho notion that I am nomin- K ating Senator Smoot for re-election. I am H simply trying to controvert tho argument of tho H barber and some other citizens, maybo, who H don't caro how much of a botch tho job is, so H that they do it themselves. H THE VANDAL. H By Harry Covell H There's an egg In the nightingale's nest; In the nightingale's egg- there's a song; In the song are The Isles or the Blest, Love, the dreams that to lovers belong. H To the nightingale's nest came a hoy, Slew the song, stole my next year's delight. Lort my lovers hut shell or their loy j Dreams voiced In the low' -pring night. H' AND, APROPOS OP WELLS. I advocate tho digging of wells in the des ert because wo havo found water at loss than a hundred foot in southorn Tooclo Valley, and up comes tho question: "Supposo a man lakes up a quaj'tor-soclion or a wholo soction tho latter under Lho enlarged homesload law and finds wator on or "rather under tho land; finds it by digging, or by drilling. Can 'ho koop tho land?" Ho has acquired it undor .the as sumption thai it is dry land, dosert land. Now, if ho finds water, docs it not vitiato his Lille? Does ho loso his land just because ho has blest it? Can lie hold il only bocauso it lacks tho one essential of a human habitation? And directly in response to this question comes a letter from Sonator Smoot. The mai ler camo up because of a loiter writton to tho Sonator by Profossor Lowis A. Morrill, agri cultural export, who preserves a kindly interest in tho mon who try to mako homos. They see lho valuo in throe hundred and twenty acres of land, if thoy can at any time and by any moans mako a homo of it. They don't want it if Lhoy can' I. This is Sonalor SmooL's loiter to Mr. Morrill: Washington, D. C, Juno 20, 1913 Mr. Lowis A. Morrill, Agricultural Export, Salt Lake Route, Salt Lake City, Ulah. I am in recoipl of your lottor of June lOlh advising mo lhal sublorranoan walor may bo found al a depth varying from 10 to 70 feet over a large -area of land classified as "Enlarged Homostead Lands," and inquiring if il would bo possible for Smoot Act entrymen on Ihese lands to prove up and secure patent if they should get water by pumps and put some of lho ground under irrigation. This question has been presontod to mo a number of times since tho passage of tho Smoot Act in 1909, as there havo been many cases whore entrymen have discovered moans of se curing water after making entry, such source of water supply being unknown at the time the land was designated undor tho provisions of the Smoot Act and unknown lo tho ontrymon at the timo of enlry. The imporlanco of lho question prompted mo in March, 1910, to ask the Secre tary of the Interior for a ruling to act as a procodont. I submilled to him a letter I had rocoivod from a resident of Salt Lake City, to base his ruling on. This resident had made entry undor the non-rosidonce seel ion (Soc tion 0) of the Smoot Acl, and later had securod water in sufficient quantities for domestic pur poses by moans of a well. On May 25, 1910, tho Socrolary of Lho Inlorior replied lo my request for a ruling, which reply will bo found in full in 38 L. D. 68G. In his lottor the Secretary mado tho following sLalemonl: "While il is boliovod lhal a designation or classification of lands undor tho Smoot Acl involved is not necessarily conclusive, nevertheless, I am of lho opinion that whoro entry is made undor tho provisions of sec tion G, upon tho faith and in full reliance upon tho correctness of tho designation or classification should not thereafter bo modi fiod lo the injury of any ono who in good faith has aolod upon such dosignation. Tho fact that certain ontrymon havo secured water upon lands so classified, would prob ably conslituto a good reason for reexamina tion of tho lands included within tho area designated, with a view to reclassification; such reclassification, howovor, it would seem, should bo restricted to lands whioh have not been entered upon tho faith of tho former classification." Tho Secretary's letter of May , 1910, was used as a precedent for tho decision in tho case of "Thoodoro Motl" 39 L. D. 33. In this decision it was stated: "By analogy to the foregoing, it is not believed after land has onco boon designated as coming within tho prov'sions of section 3 of tho onlargod homostoad act, and entry- ) has boon mado thereof on lho strength oX t such designation, that lho entry should thereafter be cancelled in tho absonco of 'a " showing of bad faith, fraud, or failure to comply wilh law; certainly not tho mere physical possibility that the land is suscep tible of irrigalion with a corresponding showing that such irrigation can be accomp lished at a reasonable eoSt, as contemplated by the act. However as to lands that havo not boon ontored, tho effecl of tho cancelled dosignation may, and should, very properly apply." Prom the foregoing ruling and decision you will note that it depends entirely upon tho good faith of tho entryman whether or not his entry shall be cancelled if he socures wator aftor hav ing made his entry. In the absonco of bad faith and fraud, which would mean a knowledge that water could bo secured at tho timo entry was made, tho department has indicated by its de cisions that it will not cancel an entry upon which water has boon found after date of filinsr." Yours Very Truly, REED SMOOT All that being true, thore is inducement for mon to dig wells. Really, tho wholo problem of reclaiming tho desert goes back to that ques lion. Tt is only interesting that tho point should 1 havo risen. The doctrine that a settler should lose his land for finding wator is a doctrine lo he discouraged. IN A LOS ANGELES GARDEN. By Ollvo Porclval. I wako and with hewildored eyes lloliold tho summer, noonday skies, hying In little blossom-nocks along' tho Will; It Is a sign Tor mo, I know, Or many heavens horo bolow: Itadiant, tender harmony awaiting all. Iirimming with tho sweet or a tropic sum- mor . Arc lho blossom-cups whito or tho magnolia troo; Drugged with droams aro thoy or enthrall ing sorrows, or Incredible Joys, by a Tar, Tar, moonlit sea! Ilotwoen the brown and oak-plumod hills is tho hill or my droams. doslros; All day a roaim or blue, blue mist And at sunset all opal ilros. Ah! tho root or tho heodlcss its paths havo round; Hut ror mo it Is ever rorblddon groundl WHY NOT SPIfiAK PLAINLY? Norman Hapgood's Harper's Weekly: II has boon held in lho notorious San Fran cisco case that a man is brought within the Mann Act, tho so-called Whito Slave Act, if ho moroly pays tho'faro of a woman from one place lo another, if they aro making tho trip for pur poses doomod morally objectionable. It may or may not bo wise for tho government to under- , take to rogulato all the sox mailers in the universe, but it is cortainly idiotic to mako no distinction between the real whito slavo traffic which is tho organized inter-stato trade in vici, and those voluntary arrangomonts between tho two individuals concornod. Tho fight against organized vico as a business has begun in earn est, and has an increasing weight of public fooling behind it. Tho dungor of a slaluto like tho Mann Acl is that, in mixing up a cruel busi ness wilh the ordinary concerns of private indi viduals, it may bring about a roacllon. Tho Maim Act not only does not confine ilsolf to organized traffic, it does not confino itsolf lo prostitution organized or isolated. It under takes to bring within the Fodoral statuto, on a technicality, purely individual and non-morcon-ary mailers and Ihus mnkos tho Federal govern ment interfere with lho most intimate private morals. Whatever your opinion about human rights may bo, you will admit that tho law in this instance is undertaking a considerably amount of regulation. fcw Why not speak plainly? Why noi sayf?uffil, in onacting a law forbidding professional prot lulion you meant, lo oxompt you n amaTour