Show RAInSDELL s debense Senator Bans lei of Louis ana has come to the dc v e of the pork bar el He decla cs at t s a noble n st tut on absolutely free from ta nt He sees no s gn of waste or graft In the face of a popular bel ef that at least the smaller appropr ations aie made for pol t cal purposes he seems to say that every appropr at on s war ranted Cr tics of the legislat on he declares have been unable to suggest a better system than the one c t cized At th s po nt we beg to d ffer w th the Lou s ana statesman The gentlemen of the Salt Lake Kotary club have sug gested a better system They propose that much of the n oney devoked to rivers and harbors 6hal be spent to much better advantage in construct ng good roads wet of the Missouri river Some of the r vers in which m 11 ons of dollars ha e been sunk never can be made nav gable There could be no such waste of money in building roads Even if the government engineers should i splay bad judgment in select ing routes or laying out plans every road ult mately would repay the ex pendjure by benefiting at least the immed ate vie mty in which it "was constructed On the othei hand a wi3e expenditure under government super s on would accompl sh many t mes the benefie al results obta ned from tho improvement of rvers Tho west has a particular r ght to ns st upon appro pr at ons for roads by the fact that it has few nav gable r vers and there fore is ent tied to government a d for the improvement of its only pos s ble h ghways oi commerce Every American will echo the con chid ng remarks of Senator Bansdell Though under no. c rcumstince should any water course be improved unless it has real genuine mer t back of it If such a policy is adhered to consc ent ously there should be millions available for the purpose oi bu Id ng good roads m the west |