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Show 192 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER door for commercial interests to gain entrance to our na- tional parks and monuments that have been set aside for all Americans to enjoy, now and forever. "The Aqualantes will tell the public that the project will develop useful hydroelectric power. "But they will not tell the public that the power dams of the project would be built only as "cash registers" from which the money would be taken to pay for the irrigation projects which could not pay for themselves and otherwise could not be built. "The Aqualantes will tell the public that the project will grow fine crops where only sagebrush can now survive. "But they will not tell the public that the irrigation parts of the project are located in high altitude, desert country which has a short growing season, and some of which has frost the year around. "The Aqualantes will tell the public that the cost of the irrigation parts of the project will be repaid. "But they will not tell the public that these repayments will not start for at least half a century, and that actually the revenues from the project would never amount to enough to pay for it. "The Aqualantes will tell the public that the project means beneficial economic development for the Rocky Mountain area. "But the Aqualantes will not tell the public that this eco- nomic development will be accomplished at the expense of all other areas of the country, and that the people in the project area will pay very little of the cost. "The Aqualantes are not riding to save the West's water, as the headline said. The Aqualantes are riding to raid the Treasury of the United States; the Aqualantes are riding to force through Congress a gigantic scheme for improving their own lot; a scheme that is agriculturally unsound, economically unjustified, and absolutely unnecessary. "Hi ho, Aqualantes!" |