Excerpt from The Irrigation Age, Vol. 7: July December, 1894 Scrip in their minds the problem of how to open the arid public domain to labor and subsequently to settlement. Here comes the Seattle Telegrap/z with a new plan. It says, and very truly, too, that relief must be provided by the government when emergencies occur by reason of a vast number of people being unemployed is the lesson of history. It cites the policy of the Pharaohs, who put the idle Israelites at work on pyramids, canals, temples and palaces; of the Roman emperors, who employed their subjects upon great roads; of the ancient Danish kings, who built a wall across their kingdom; of the Peruvians, who also built roads. And then the Telegraph presents its plan for the present crisis as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.