Show POLITICS A PROTECTOR for centurion centuries the little country lo in northern Bor thera europe constituting what to generally known an the netherlands ban bai protected itself kant against the mist ion ie sea iea by ft a artom of dikes not only has hai it preserved ila it land from brou ovo overflow illow from the urging surging ald out but 11 hw has also alio to in large arm areas conquered the th on ocean itself atif and by we construction of impenetrable will walls had and the scientific use u of pumping and nd drainage apparatus Rp parti md made toady steady on en upon old neptune a realm its if stupendous engineering achieve gerits resulting from the patience and unexampled industry of JU ita popl people have been for generations the wonder and bd admiration at t the h world tile th fesson 1 HOB imparted has h boon been that no n ob stables wr were too great to be b overcome by bj man mans s ingenuity and labor even when those came oa in the form of a ceaseless oear elew ati nEgle with the stam loomed waters water of the unrestrained german ocean generally the world has hai appreciated this splendid eplen did lesson leon yet truth compete the me admission milon ad that its ito full import and value still fall ail of recognition la in this choice and promised prom lied land of america within a fortnight past pait the papers pa pen have teemed with accounts of and threatened calamity from over overflowed and broken I 1 levees la in the great and the he heart la is chilled with fear as to the tb probable extent of lose both of life and property before the danger shau have past the visitation while by oo no meana usual to la still not without precedent and plenty of it there havar been disastrous floods flood before in the now inundated regions gioni re and millions million of dollars dollan would not cover the actual loss incurred to may y nothing of the hundreds hundred of priceless human lives which wore were offered up RI as a sacrifice t the angry waters we realize that hat there in ii cold com jooa fort in the policy of reserving word of criticism till the dark hour of dis dl gross yet the pointing painting out of shortcoming can frequently be made more mor effective at such roh times in that hope hop for the present instance we may be permitted to say aay that hat it in ii about time alm the work of constructing levees along the mississippi river and and of carrying eft aft the waters of that mighty tream stream were dose la in a more systematic matie thorough he rough and assure ore man ner mot most of ef thaw works work are done under government where when not they should be because private negligence as a to the strength th of a dike alk ought not to be allowed to imperil neighboring life and property for miles mil around millions million lupow million of dollars dollan have been appropriated by etab tate and an ur the national government for the protection of ef adjacent land and aad the improve la proTe meat of river oha naela much or of this means he haa been absolutely wasted as ai everybody knows knew B by dredging by lettley jetties lett jet lec ties by a sales t IZ tudy study of ef all the method pos possibly to la the correction ofa of a mosses menace of thew magnitude a far greater measure aea iare of protection might ight have been attal aeA neO than has ha as ac yet been enjoyed ahw th trouble rouble Is 1 there has hac been a lack or ef etem system coupled with a surplus oj air end and la in and through and foaad around it all 11 II MM has been the fatal ban or of politics this latter later was waa never knows to control riven or rescue flood threatened lauds yet thor thero alway awe was waa a of it in all opera eions public money had bad to be b expended tho the mississippi river and valley talley ought to bo be taken at ones oafs of the apola poll column in which aher bave rest roctor so 0 o loni siad and placed whom moy ibey ought to be under civil service artlee of 09 the tae Mrie teet type to leave thomm longer under the fe reign and subject abot tow to the ca ryoei prices rl of at politics loe will be nothing bort of a national crime |