The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-11-28

Chicago, Superior.
Ocean Ships for 5000, 600 People.
''These cities contain about 5000, 600 peo-
pie now and do the marketing and manu-
featuring for aterritory embracing Is, OOO,.
600 inhabitants and contains the wheat,
timber, iron, meat and minerals of North
America. "
"Was tn ere ever before an enterprise of
wider or more beneficent consequences?
'It is not a difficult scheme from an en-
cheering standpoint nor costly from q
financial standpoint. In fact it is the
quickest, cheapest and simplest of all the
great projects now under discussion.
"Mr. Cooley has gone over the entire
ground, and prepared estimates for canals
and locks of % feet, and finds the whole
thing, including eight locks of 40 feet lift
each around Niagara Falls on the Ameri-
can side can be built within $50, 900, 600,
and If the money should be forthcoming
and the contract let at one time in sec
tions, completed in three, or at the out
side, five years. 81 ~ -.
Yankee and Canuok Unite.
sour plan is for the United States and
Canada to join In constructing and main
tanning these locks and canals upon a
basis that shall be just to Canada with her
5,300,O00 and to the United States with her
100000 people and free to both if not to
all nations. = vel
Practically it means extending Lake
Superior and Lake Michigan down to the
Atlantic ocean, or bringing the Atlantic
2,O00 miles inland to Duluth, Superior and
Chicago. '"' .". #
''In results the Suez canal, or the North
German canal, or the Manchester canal,
or the Pekin canal, is nothing to this.
'Our project is not only the greatest
commercial enterprise of the age, but of
the utmost diplomatic Importance. Al few
years ago, hoping to control the business
from Lakes Erie and Ontario for Toronto.
Montreal and Quebec shipmasters, the
Canadians imposed restrictions which
practically shut American vessels out OF
the st. Lawrence trade.
president Harrison retaliated by i'm
posing a tonnage tax on all Canadian craft
passing through the 500. Having no locks
of their own around the 500 the Cana
dians were forced to recede or see every
one of their boats shut out of Lake Supe-
rior; therefore the Dominion's 8 restrictions
were removed.
"Now, however, the situation is differ
CAbs Il WIS a. SAh1 AJOO VII kOEpG. ~ IdSG.W Which,
water was let into the chamber of the
great new lock built by the Dominion on
her own soil at a cost of 50, 600, 900 with Is
feet of water, net, overthe inter still.
This lock will be In use next season,
and all Canadian craft will pass throughit.
Yankee In = Pocket.
''Then the United States will be in a
pocket. We have, it is true, the treaty of
1863, giving to Capadians the same privi-
leges in Yankee canals that Yankees have
in Canadian canals, but we shall have no
way of enforcing our rights under that
treaty as we did when the Canadians were
forced to use 0ur locks at 500.
I'VE have no locks around Niagara Falls
and one around the rapids of the st. Law
enc Therefore the vast of
Chicago and the upper lakes, and Of all
the lakes in fact, Ii in a pocket-has no
way OF going from Lake Erie to Onfarioo or
from Ontario down the 81. Lawrence
should the Canadians again become OBJ
streperous.
Canada has paid almost q dollar q
head for every man, woman and child
within her borders for her big lock at the
500 on her own soil for no purpose what
ever than to enable herself to be obstrep-
erous whenever she shall deem an coca
sion To have arisen. WI
made discriminating rebates on grain
In such q way a. 70 reach Canadian bot
toms only, claimed. and still claim, that
they did not violate the treaty Of 1853.
They receded from their rebates only
because forced TO do yso-bsause Uncle