Professor  Mead  quotes  with  approval  the  following  sentence  from  a
recent  report  of  Secretary  Wilson :  '*  In  a  matter  so  vitally  affecting  the
home  as  the  control  of  the  water  supply,  no  legislation  will  be  effective
which  has  not  the  sanction  of  the  irrigators  themselves."  This  is  the
solemn  truth.  The  other  part  of  it  is  that  California  irrigators  as  a  whole
will  not  accept  the  Wyoming  system,  any  more  than  they  are  willing  to
accept  the  pale  and  feeble  imitation  of  it  embodied  in  the  ill-fated  Works
Bill.  It  would  have  been  interesting  for  Professor  Mead  to  develop  the
thought  suggested  in  the  sentence  quoted  from  Secretary  Wilson  and  thus
endeavor  to  suggest  plans  which  could  be  applied  to  existing  conditions.
It  is  to  be  feared  that  in  teaching  the  young  men  of  Berkeley  and  Cam-
bridge the  Wyoming  doctrine,  pure  and  simple,  he  is  not  giving  them  the
broadest  preparation  for  the  problems  with  which  they  must  deal.
