Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1901-12-07


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.ry standno,nt Is - unwise Tor th,
United States 10 contfnue to rely upo1
i he shlps az eomnetsng nations for th,
distribution Of our goods. It should bt
raade advantageouasdo carry American
foods IN American built ships.
At present American shipping is I'M
tleE certain great disadvantages wheI
put IN competition with the shipping
Of foreign countries. Many Of the fast
Foreign steamships, at speed Of four
teen knots or above, are subsidized
and all our ships, sailing vessels and
steamers alike, cargo carriers Of slow
speedEand NAH carriers of high speed,
have to meet the fact that the original
cost of building American ships is
greater than is the case abroad; that the
wages paid American officers and sea-
paid the officers and seamen of foreign
competing countries, and tina. the
standard Of living on our ships is far
superior to the standard of living on
the ships of our commercial rivals. Our
government should take such action as
will remedy these inequalities. The
American merchant marine should be
restored to the ocean.
Financial.
The passage Of the act establishing
gold as the standard money has, it is
declared, been shown to be timely and
5udicious. The president adds:
In many respects the national bank
Ing law furnishes sufficient liberty for
the proper exercise OF the banking
function, but there seems to be need
Of better safeguards against the de-
ranging influence of commercial crises
and financial panics. Moreover, the
currency of the country should be
made responsive to the demands Of our
domestic trade and commerce.
ECONOMY IN expenditures is urged.
Amendment or the Interstate commerce
act is advised to insure the cardinal
provisions. OF that act. The work car
rled on Dy the department OF agr1cul-
cure Is next considered and praised
hlghly. The president then turns to,
forest preservation and irrigation Of
ara lands, saying that both are highly
necessary. He would put all the work.
III connection with the forest reserves
IN charge OF the bureau of forestry.
Irrigation.
The president continues nv tracing
the connection between the forest re-
serves and the water sllpnlv. He saws.
The forests are natural reservoirs
By restraining tha streams IN flood
and replenishing them in drought they
make possible the use Of waters other
wise wasted. They prevent the soil
from washing and so protect the stor-
age reservoirs from filing I'D with
silt. Forest conservation is, therefore.
an essential condition Of water conser-
walton.
The forests alone cannot. however
fully regulate and conserve the waters
of the arid region. Great storage works
are necessary to eoualize the flow of
streams and to save the flood waters.
Their construction has. been conclu.
sfveiys shown to be an undertaking
too vast for private effort Nor can #
be best accomplished BY the individual
states acting alone: The government
should construct and maintain these
reservoirs as it does other public works.
Where their purpose is to regulate the
low Of streams. the water should be |
turned freely into the channels in the
Iry season to take the same course |
under the same laws as the nat11ral
flow.
The reclamation of +bo unsettled GRID |
,nhlic lands nroson+s . diffnron+ nroh-
am Here r ia not nnonob e. rooT1la+o
he flow of streams Tho object Of tho
is To disnosn of the land
o settlers who will build homes nnon
t. To accomnlish this object water
must be brought within their reach
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