| Show INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS r V It la i often said that large farms are unprofitable lhat It Is very much better J bet-ter for twenty men to have twenty acres of land each and to cultivate It I I well than to have ont man own the four irundrcil and half cultivate it I One thinks of that ill looking over what I Germany Is doing Germany has but I I about onefifteenth of the area of the United States and only about two thirds of tho people In developed wealth she does not compare with the United States In undeveloped wealth I V her possibilities are very small while those 01 this country are measureless i But Germany Is making the most of I her small farming Now Emden Is to I bo made accessible to large ships to 1 rival Hamburg and Bremen Berlin is to be connected with Stettin by a I deep waterway and the bill for the I construction of the RhineElbe canal it Is expected will pass In her merchant marine are the finest ships afloat and when the Emperor has his way he will have a navy to back it 1C tho same spirit was behind the American Congress that Is controlling Germany the Erlo canal would be made a ship canal the Mississippi would be Improved and made a great highway of commerce from St Louis Ito I-to the Gulf and the Nicaragua canal would bo driven through with all energy en-ergy Speaking of deepening the Mississippi Mis-sissippi Representative Champ Clark made a tolling speech in the House He called attention to the fact that Capt Eadcs at the time of his death had a proposition to make an ocean steamer waterway to Cairo and Clark proposed to add 10000000 more and make It to St Louis practically making of St Louis a seaport In one way there is no other so majestic a before be-fore the nations and it Is practical too When Capt Eades took a little outlet one of tho mouths of the Mississippi and by willow wands made It a great thirtyfoot channel from the main river to tho gulf and made the river dig its own channel he established for himself him-self a name which entitles any opinion of his most respectful attention |
