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Show FREIGHT BY WATER COSTS ONLY ONE-SIXTH TO ONE TENTH AS MUCH AS BY I RAIL TRANSPORTATION'S'. BIG i TOLL. American People Annually - Pay ' Out Three Times at Much for Trant-portation Trant-portation as They Pay for Support of the Government. ' Do you know-That know-That the people of the United States pay cut each year about three times an m'ich In transportation taxes, that n, for the carriage of freight and pa.9-rena-f-rs, as they pay In taxes for th nuppcrt of government, national, 6tate and local? That transportation affects the prlc of everything that everybody buy. sells, eats, wears or uss In any way whaterer air, water and sunshine excepted? ex-cepted? That cheap transportation benefits both the producer and the consumer. 1 making wheat aDd cotton higher and flour and cloth lower at one and the same time? That the cheapest known transportation transpor-tation Is water transportation, costing, on the average, from one sixth to one-tenth one-tenth as much as transportation by rail? That the direct saving on the goods actually carried, by water In the United States Is over $550.nnn.OoO a year? That railways always make lower rates when Bubject to the compjetltlon of wmerways than where such competition compe-tition does not exist? That the Indirect saving, thut caused, la probably as large as the direct di-rect caving given nbove? That both tho direct and Indirect saving would be largely Increased by the further Improvement of our water ways? That waterways always increase th profits of the railways with which they come Into competition? For the reason rea-son that waterways, by giving cheap transportation for raw materials, actually actu-ally create both Industry nnd commerce? com-merce? As Is Indicated by the fact That In 1900 there was only one city In the United States, with a population of 150,000 or over, which was no located lo-cated on a navigable waterway? And further - How Frankfort Benefited. That Frankfort, Germany, grew more In th6 twenty years after the River Main wa canallr.ed than It had grown In the two hundred years bo-fore? bo-fore? And again That Germany, which Is nearly CO,-000 CO,-000 square miles smaller than Texas, but has one of the finest waterway systems In the world, bad In 1 00R a foreign commerce greater than that of the United States by over $500,000,-000? $500,000,-000? That throughout tho civilized world the largest cittes, the densest population, popula-tion, the busiest and most prosperous people are to be found along navigable naviga-ble waterways? That the surest ind speediest way to develop the resources of the nation ond every state and section thereof, to increase the growth of every city and community In the country, to promote pro-mote the prosperity of every interest, including the railroads, and of every citizen, east, west, north and 60uth. Is to Improve all our waterways as fast and as far as we can? That money used for the Improvement Improve-ment of waterways, wisely planned and honestly constructed. Is not an expenditure but an investment, which will pay a divldond of at least 100 per cent a year? Provision for Funds. Thai the benefits which would result re-sult from the comprehensive Improvement Improve-ment of our waterways, and the losses which ould follow our failure to make such Improvement, are so enormous, enor-mous, that funds phonld be provided by the Issuance of bonds as has been done by railways so that the work may be begun at once and finished as soon as possible? That the national government claims exclusive jurisdiction and exercises Fuprerae control over all navigable waterways? wa-terways? And therefore That It dopends entirely on the congress con-gress of the United States whether the work of creating a great national system of waterways shall be done at all ,nnd how poon It shall be finished? That the voe of the member of congress con-gress from your district will help to decide ihe policy of the government wilh regard to waterways? That the action of congreesmen Is Influenced by the wishes of their constituents, con-stituents, when they know what those wishes nre? - That you have thcVlght to ask the candidates for congrtss In your district dis-trict to state their, position on this question now, before the election? That you are blind to your own in tcrests If you do not ask your candidates candi-dates to pledge thcmrelves to work and vole for watorways if elected, and then demand of tbo one who Is elected elect-ed lhat he shall keep bis pledge? Hie fects and figures given lu (his . series of articles have been submitted In the hope that those' who read tbein would ecc the Importance of the policy of waterway Improvement advocated by the Xatlonal Rivers and Harbors congress, and would aid In securing 'he adoption of that policy. How well. they have served the purpose for which they were written must bo left for their readers to decide. |