The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-20

1929. the Iow-water discharge of the Ohio feet at zero of the gauge and 5.Slo cubic feet pef second at g Inches .of the gauge. coosa at Wetumpka. it appears that the vol ume of water flowing In the. eoosa at low water is about equal to that of the Mississippi in the Hudson at Albany and about 3,5 times greater than that In the Ohio at Pittsburg National Importance.
 The Coosa River. reaching like bandeau,
 scress the state or Aanama ma rom nr % Mpms hs, extends from the Alabama cotton, coal and | iron nsids and the freat pine forests so the | Gulf and South Atlantic. The cost of these | clements of industry. commerce and civilzar
 ton is a fact that interests Nhe people of | every section of tho United states
 | Tho cheapening of the cost of transportation | on these commercial necessities is duty ef l the Government when it holds the paramount l control of such a channel of navigation. = 1 The Cooea River has claims to national cc-e | and consideration that are not possessed by | any water course of the United States of sim | far length not yet open 10 steam navigation. l On the banks of this river great geological ] systems are in contact with each other, the l ton is not presented elsewhere in the United l States. if it is found in any other country . | These systems. bearing the rich material | of their full development. each contribute to industry and commerce the indispensable ee- l | that are in universal use. Among these are | coal, iron, lime, marble, granite, the states
 kaoin, <mica, asbestus, and many cognate minerals with soils. clays, sandstone and other | useful minerals of great variety.
 | Such geological areas are found elsewhere in l the United States in perfection, and each of
 them is Indispensable in the grand aggregate | of our material resources, but they are widely
 separated in other localities and , tneir m trans | pensive that their value is much diminished
 Along the banks of the Coosa River these | natural conduit for their interchange The for | ests and the productions of these several sys-
 tens are ind indisen9as rem nsr'a to such formations ana The use of the Coosa River as the eommer; | cial outlet to the ocean for this immense neld | and mines is great national duty that is | devoIved on Congress The United States be- | ing the paramount power entitled to imprave | this river the States of Georgia and Alabama | cannot do this necessary work.
 1 Congress has continuously prosecuted thts | national duty, and the only question is wheth- | CT it shall be abandoned or prosecuted 10
 a success that is commensurate with its vast importance.
 Present Improvement
 The present improvement of the Coosa River. | now being carried under the auspices or
 the War Department of the United states, was sn
 prenr;ations for that purpose this work has | progressed very slowly. and frequontly during
 this period, as is now the csse, the Mork Iis nss | this with the work standing in an unnn- | ished state. necessarily cause heavy damages | to the work previously done and so demoral- | ize the forces. until 1t takes q good portion | of the next appropriation to reorgahlze aiu
 place the work back Sn s S.y io1er Ssn rrent n | this way, while. if sufficient sums or money 1 were appropriated to push the work 10 con con, l hletion would save all this useless deiay | and expenditure of money We have no crfti' l cism to make except as to the inadeduate
 sums of money appropriated TOT this in'por
 '' it has been suggested that it would be bet bet. | ter to abandon this entire scheme rather thai I continue this wastefu plan or operations
 abandon this project would he to repudiatt
 the purposes of our forefathors as far back a:
 heen spent on this important stream Wher
 we take into consideration these facts m con ,
 necton with the magnitude or the ,r1 rine' iip,n '
 coal and manufacturing, through whioh tnt
 magnificent stream flows in such close proH x | this project cannot be within the contempia . tion of any rational man. .,.,- ,,o-, The able engineers in charge or tnis Worl estimate that ss ooo, GOO Wli give four foo t,, slack-w navigation from LOCK to VI ",
 tumpka, Ala, which is the poftr1h rprs on ,onn' an can be more economically expended m sl' }, years than it could be fin twelve ana mor TOT. < economically spent in twelve than III twenty eo,,r Therefore we recomend and ask tha Congress place the work of opening the '9os' River to thorough naVlga,'on anr,nrr,afa "m ss' 5 | ooo 900 to he spent in six years In the open
 ing of this important stream, me wo,S tion npsviousiY furnished by the engineers I
 charge and that the work be commences Son a
 Lock A. and S2ntinue sn, aoWn and '" work up tn river from that point. and continue Tn 'hi
 form until completed
 At the outset of my remarks aliVue ,,s, 5 to the general argument m iaNor "i .i,,, i, 2 CT and harbor appropriations, Tn that tie' , serve to facilitate waterway trIlsport1 ! tion and thus act as a check on the SfFd f railroad mono?olies and trusts; 7 This, MT. Chairman cons,de[ onU D',,o., u the most important aspects or the ques
 | ion. The greatest peril to our natlona prosperity and the most sinister menae e to our liberties. nay, even to oul w, ti. r existence as free repnbhc, IS n,, irUm, ', 1, | eripantic trusts which have sprung VI ' so suddenly and with such an appaiiinl } measure of strength in our lano' Slmes e trusts, now about 1O0 in number, count a ing only the larger ana InorG i., Htns ,,o 2 ones, have succeeded in obtaining | mo nopoly of the production and sale 0 : almost all the articles when mdnkl ii', ,I, ot i dinarily requires to possess lhGi~uuih' ~ l meats, sugar, flour sat; u.' ar coaa an, r steel, copper, leather, rubber paper ,i1I an, y many other important articles ot gal! t and universal nse The trusts nave com com g bined all the sources of supply ana PIU . duction dn these lines, and have thus eti : fed all competition and forced the sndi
 individual manufacturer to unite Wlti
 them and do their bdding, or else p
 forced out of business or oflNen inS S
 |
 tained A monopoly of the various leadlnl
 lines of business, the trusts have mex . been able to arrange the prices To SUI
 l themselvee and the prices of eVerythlhl
 | today are advancing, as we all know
 | They are much higher now than the!
 were four or five years ago, when tn \ trusts were on their good behavior an'
 were feeling their way 10 the .secl,Ilii, .s,liiln,
 of absolute power through the Republican
 | Party and the Dingley tariff law.
 | do not need to dilate upon the dan , l gerous and terrible power of the trust : nor upon their evil effect upon the com munity at large. The people in genera ,. are beginning to understand these thing a | pretty we'll but it is very desirable | y conditions which render the trusts possl f ble, and which tend to give them thel | great and increasing power. There ar . | two principal causes or conditions to D mentioned. One is our present high tarlr
 which prevents our citizens from obtain ing their needed supplies in outside mal s | kets at outside prices, and thereoy eI ;, ables the trusts to force the home price . up to the level of the foreign prices plu , 1 the amount of the tariff duty. In th n | way the trusts compel the American pee ' | ple to buY all the products of the trust :, at an exorbitant figure, and the result u that the comparatively few trust mas s mates become enormously wealthy at tf l. l expense of the masses of the people . The other causc or condition greatly [; - vorable to the trusts is the faVoritis . shown to them hy our great railroad m - uopniieS and combines in granting the . wholesale tiscrimnatioHs and rebates " frrights Th;S pra' tice. MT Chatrma \ has bccom, general, and has develops
 Into a national scandal ana dlsgrac
 Many instances have been brought to liS