Show FREIGHT BY V COSTS ONLY ONE f TENTH AS MUCH AS RAIL L bl BI bu I 1 american people annuala annually y fj nu three times time as much bijil fo L orl por tation as they pay forill for of the government do you know that the people of the unit pay out each ear about th fj via as much in transportation t ta 0 Is for the carriage of freight 4 cen congers cengeri gers as they pay ln in j taxes 4 support of government matto and local 1 I 1 that transportation affects tj I 1 4 of everything that every everybody bod sells cells eats wears or uses usel in n whatever air water and suns or cemel 16 I 1 that cheap transportation ti both the producer and the concer making wheat and a nd cotton aigul flour and cloth lower at one albil same time 1010 tar 1 that the cheapest known r tation Is water transportation on the average from one sixth to wa 1 tenth as much as transportation foil rail W that the direct saving on the botu actually carried by water to in I 1 W united states is over year ai that railways always make aloi rates when subject to the i of waterways than where such WWW does not exist afta my that the indirect saving tik tin caused Is probably as large as thell saving given above bof a that both the direct and in indeli airet savins saving would be largely increased increase il by 67 the further improvement of our fsr ways creat W that waterways always Iri profits of the railways with which t come into competition for the in son that water waterways by giving cheh transportation for bor raw materials ad aff ally create both industry and avas mercle As Is indicated by br rae alf ra that in 1900 teem livas only one IT la the united slates with a populate of or over which was not nota bated on a navigable waterway f further how frankfort benefited that thai frankfort germany j note more in the twenty years after river main was ivas canalized canali zed than itil ith grown in the two hundred tore fore and again 4 aj i that Ger germany marly which is Is nealey square miles tr Z but has one of tile the zest finest n bato S b systems in the world had in 1908 a foreign commerce greater than that 0 of the united states by over 3 that throughout the I 1 he civilized world the 1 largest argest cities the densest population the busiest and most prosperous people are to be found along navigable waterways I 1 that the fhe jureld ind speediest ediest way to develop the resources of the nation and every state and thereof to increase the growth ol 01 aery ery city and community in the country to 0 o promote the prosperity of 0 every int including the ralli oads and of eltty ever citizen east west north and south ai to improve all our waterways is as fast and as for fir as we can that money used tor for the improve of waterways wisely tasty planned and honestly constructed la Is not gain n expenditure but an investment which will pay a dividend of at least per cent a year provision for funds that the benefits b befits which would result from tle the comprehensive improvement ent ot of our waterways vater waYs and the bosses josses which would follow our failure to make such improvement aro ar so BO error enor f that funds should be provided hy hv the issuance of bonds as aa has been done acrie by railways so that the work may be begun at once and finished as soon as possible that the national government claims claim exclusive jurisdiction and exercises exercise su supreme prenie control over all navigable wo wil er ways and therefore 41 i that it depends entirely on the con ress aress of the united states whether il ae work of el eating agrest national estem ol oc waterways shall be done at 11 and how soon it shall be finished that the vote ot of the member of conless from your district will help to eclie tile the policy of the government iab regard to waterways that the action of congressmen la is by the wishes iks of their con when they know what those 1 are aes that I 1 a t you h have ave the right to ask the tha candidates anui andi dates for congress con giess in your youndla dis lica to state their position on oua this question now before the election that you are blind to your own in eresch r ts if you do not ask your caridi lates to pledge themselves to work ind vote v 0 te for waterways if elected ard hen nen demand d eman id of the one who is elect A d t that bat he shall keep his pledge the facts and figures given in this eries of articles have been submitted ri the hope that those vho aho read them ahem would see the importance of the if t waterway policy improvement advocated DY 17 tile the national rivers and harbors lon eress aul would aid in sec securing he adoption of that rolley they bey hive have served tho aich were purpose purposed Pur lor to r written must b ha leit left or their leaders to to t 1 |