Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-11-30

VI oSO"A toAAvs - OSOOVSOOO AcOp1Ga #"a
'These cities contain about 5000, 900 peo-
pie now and do the marketing and manu-
featuring for a territory embracing IS, OOO,-
600 inhabitants and contains the wheat,
timber, iron, meat and minerals of North
America.
"Was there ever before an enterprise of
wider or more beneficent consequences?
"It is not a difficult scheme from an en-
cheering standpoint nor costly from a
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 26 feet, and finds the whole
thing, including eight locks of 40 feet lift
can side can be built within $50, 600. 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.
Yankee and Canuok Unite.
"Our plan is for the United States and
Canada to join in constructing and main
tanning these locks and canals upon q
basis that shall be just to Canada with her
$500, 900 and to the United States with her
65,000,000 people end free to both if not to
all nations.
practically it means extending Lake
Superior and Lake Michigan down to the
Atlantic ocean, or bringing the Atlantic
1900 miles inland to Duluth, Superior and
Chicago.
Gin 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. A 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
dams were forced to recede or see every
one of their boats shut out of Lake Supe-
rior; therefore the Dominion's restrictions
were removed. 81
Snow, however, the situation is differ
emit. I was at the 500 on Sept. 80 last, when
water was let into the chamber of the
great new lock built by the Dominion on
her own soil at a cost of So, 00O, 900 with 18
feet of water, net, over the 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
1859, giving to Canadians the same priyi-
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 our locks at the 500.
"We have no locks around Niagara Falls
and none around the rapids of the St. Law
renee. Therefore the vast Of
Chicago and the upper lakes, and of all
the lakes in fact, is in q pocket-has no
way Of going from Lake Erie to Ontario or
from Ontario down the St. Lawrence
should the Canadians again become OBJ
streperous.
"Canada has paid almost a dollar a
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 occa~
sion to have arisen.
"And further. the Canadians, when they
made discriminating rebates on grain:
trans-shipped to the st. Lawrence canals
In such a way as to reach Canadian bot
toms only, claimed, and still claim, that
theyd1d not violateathe treaty of 1859.
ssThey receded from their rebates only
because forced to do so-because Uncle