Show BY ONE OE SIXTH TO ari AS MUCH AS BY RAIL BIG TOLL american people annually pay out three times is as much for trans por tation as they pay for support of the government do you know tatt the people of the united states PV cut eich cir al about out three times is much in transportation taxes that is 1 fol foi the of freight and pis pas e eng 71 gera cri as the ply pay in taxes taeg for the su support aport of national nit lonal state and local ahat affects the price of ci en thing that eNery everybody body bu buss s sells eats N ears or uses in in 15 way wha whiter teNer cr air N vater nater ater and sunshine ex cepter 7 aliat cheap transportation Lene benefits fits both the pio producer ducer and the consumer making wheat and cotton higher aria and nour flour and cloth lower lover at one ind and the sarre mire time that the known tian por tation Is water transportation costing on the ohp average from one sixth ith to one tenth as much as transportation by rail lint the direct saving on the goods actually carried by water ater in the united states Is oner a 3 seara enra that always malo male lower rites rates when nhen subject to the competition of than where there such compe does not exist exists that the indirect saving thus caused Is probably pro bibly is large is as the dt dl aaning slims given abbie that both the direct and indirect saving would a be largely iacre aed by the further I 1 improvement pr of our water T wasa aa a that thai waterways aa s ildas aa s increase e the of the ralla with which ba th they e for come into inlo competition for the e rea e son on thit tha wat waterways waterway erwa by giving chein cheal transportation for ran materials natu alev create both indu industry str rind and corn com merce mercea As is indicated by the fact that in 1900 there lore was only one city in the united states stales with a population of oi 01 over which was not lo 10 0 o cited on a navigable waterway 7 and further how frankfort benefited that frankfort germany grew more in the ears after th river main was canalized canali zed than 1 it t had grown in the two hundred cleais beals be fore and again that germany which Is nearie 60 square miles smaller than texas but has one of the finest waterway at rv V systems in the world had in 1908 a 1 foreign commerce greater than that ot of tiie united states by over that throughout the be civilized world the he largest cities the densest tion the busiest and most prosperous people are to be found along navi i ble waterways 7 that the surest ind and speediest ediest way to develop the resources of the nation and ciera state and section thereof to increase inci eise ease the growth ot of every cit and community in the country to pro mo mote te ohp Dro prosperity of acri interest inte iest including the ralli oad olds find and of ever even citizen eist east west north and south is to imbrone all our as fast and rs Ps fir far as we cana that nione mone used tor for the improve ment of wiler was T isab planned and honestly honest li constructed Is not an expenditure but in anve janent which will pay a dividend bild crid of it least per cent a year provision for funds that the bent ills which would re e suit from the he imalove ment meat of our and the losses losea which woi id follow alir to make k e such ruch are so enor that funds should be provided b the issuance of bonds as has been done by rilas railways ao 0 o thit that the he may be begun at once and finished as 13 soon as possible P that the tha national government claims claim exclusive jurisdiction and exercises exercise a supreme control over all navigable wa a hersay tern ayse 0 and therefore that it depends entirely on the con gress ot of the united states whether NOi ether the he work ot of creating a great national eltern Ev tern ot of water was shall be done at all and how honn soon it shall be finished 7 that the i ote of the dembei of con gre gress s a front from your district will help to decide dee ide the policy of the government with r regard e gard to waterways 7 that the action of cong congressmen Is influenced b th the bishes ot of their con when they know whit those thosa mimics area lint sou baie bae the right to ask the candidates tor for congress in our its ills tract brict to bbate position on this question stion non noi before the election 7 that you are blind to bour our oun ov n in teresta it you do not ask i our candi dates to pledge to work nork and vote tor for wais it 11 elected elec and alwn demind demand of 0 the one who is elect t til d that he I 1 cep his pec se 1 ohp facts and f arcs agten in this heri s of 0 artic articles lus haio baic been submitted in th the e hope tint that those who read elnera would see the importance Imo mu ortance ol 01 the policy of waterway wiy improvement advocated by the national lovers and harbors congress ml ini would aid in securing the adoption of that policy allow bell they time hae sered the for which I 1 hach they were nere written must be left f tor or theia readers to decide eiery E ery obstruction auction to the free and navigation of our waterways la ia a 1 brale brake on the wheela wheel of industry |