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Show i NEW FLORIDA SENATOR j i . D. W. Fletcher, the new senator from the state of Florida, comes to Washington with one well-defined plan strong in his mind. That is nothing less than the construction of a big ship canal entirely across his state. It is a modest little stunt, as Senator Fletcher Fletch-er pictures it, entailing possibly an expendi ture of some trifling sum like $50,000,000, but that is nothing like an indication of the real value val-ue of the big ditch proposed. Given a non-combatant listener, a large sheet of paper and a lead pencil. Senator Fletcher Fletch-er will prove by all the established rules of geography, geog-raphy, commerce, mathematics and hygiene, that every dollar dropped by our Uncle Samuel into this big ditch will return big profits. Not only would it save 500 miles of travel for the big ships that vank our commerce around that route, but it. would prove a aeciaea : stimulus to commerce generally. And so it will when he gets it. i |