| Show A WATERWAY WANTED the ablert newspaper in the norths north west is IB the st paul pioneer prow fress it always takes tabes a lively hand in what ever matter most concerns the constituency among whom it circulates following this line it has prudently put away politics for a season reason and laid hold bold of some ome of the business issues before the western people these it discusses discusser with vigor sod and intelligence givins giving fresh evidence of its earnestness an aad CAPIC capacity alty as a popular champion A subject that has received recent treatment in its if columns la is one that thai concerns many others besides the citizens of the morth northwestern rn states this thi to la nothing low leu than the advocacy of ft deep waterway from the west which win will be extensive enough t to 0 admit of the bulk of the eastbound east bound grain being transported during the navigation s sea son en that the western farmer is at that tb meroy of ef the eastern railroads in the matter of getting his grata grain across the continent to the coast no OD will dispute and that thi drama of injustice is if played over again year after yes year r always to tha draining of the farmers farmer a profits ta an and a the fattening of the railroad companies is too obvious to require proof wherefore thinks the pioneer press prebi the agricultural interests of the country demand a canal system which complete the transcontinental route of which the great lakes form the most molt important link there have been several 01 ral propositions made by which such a plan could be comp compassed amed perhaps there may be better ones devised in tho future but it to is certain that until some such scheme is carried through the farmer will suffer the natural eon sequences of the annual con congestion at buffalo sod and other like points and wi wilt it PRY pay the price of escape from it no matter ho how w unjust I 1 that hat price may belt beit should be one of the immediate labors of the american people to devise and put pul t through some plan for a deep waterway from the west to the tb atlantic seaboard it to is not simply ft a legitimate cause but an urgent one olm and to neglect it is to neglect la a practical need this to is the era of groat great undertakings der takings and these last twenty ata years have bee been n marked by groat grear achl we firmly bellev Othe next ton ten years will witness the solution of the transportation problem on the plan suggested nothing in a practical and economic way could more fittingly round out the century |
