The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
FUTURE OF THE LgBOB UNIONS
Views Of President of Harvard University ON the All
Absorbing Topic.

work. They have improved health
conditions in factories and mines, and
nave procured the legislation which
has enforced better health conditions.
They have prevented young children
from working in factories, and they
nave emanc1pated employees in many
industries from the company store.
Moreover, they hold in check combined
capital; and combined capital is, from
the democratic point of view, for1nid-
able oligarchy, and one which the
American community is distinctly
afraid of. The labor unions hold that
oligarchy in check. The argument
commonly used in justification of the
organizations Of laborers in unions is
a sound one-capital is effectively
combined in certain industries, and
therefore laborers must effectively
combine in those industries.
be far more beneficial than by the old
capricious and fitful natural system.
The dam is across the first rapids
OF the first cataract to the north of
the Island of Philae.
Much discussion was raised during
the building of the dam concerning
the vandalism of destroying the ancient
temples and buildings on the classic
island. That has been averted by pro-
tective measures in the shape of iron
gtrders which have been placed to
washing of the tide will not undermine
them.
The completion of the Assouan dam
and the Asiot lock mark the finish of
the most beneficial engineering work of
modern times
The storage capacity of the dam, CAL
culated at 1,065,000,0O0 cubic meters of
water, or sufficient to supply every
town and village in the United King
dom, should literally transform the
desert into an oasis.
This water will be distributed by
means of 140 sluices, fourteen square
miles in area and forty upper sluices,
forty meters in area.
During the period of the fall foods
which bring down the silt, the great
fertilizer of Egypt, the sluices will be
kept fully open, not interfering at all
with the velocity of the water. When
the floods cease and the waters clear
the sluices will be closed gradually and
the reservoir filled.
By March 1 this will be, as a rule.
completed. Then the upper sluices will
be opened to permit of q discharge of
what comes from the South. The be-
| ginning Of May will find the crops
needing assistance, and the sluices will
be gradually opened, and by June they
will be fully open.
all seasons as far south as Wady Halfa,
owing to the construction of a naviga-
ton channel.
Climatic changes have been the
cause of the decay of Egypt from it's
former greatness. Ever within historic
| times Northern Africa was densely
| wooded all along the foothills of the
Atlas range, and it is presumed these
forests once extended from the Allan
tic to the Red sea, probably going
southwark far beyond the terraces Of
the uplands. 1t is estimated that the
| climate Of Lower Egypt once resem-
bled that of the Mississippi valley,
under the same parallel. 1t is believed
that the elevated table lands on both
sides Of the Nile originally were as
| habitable as Northern Georgia, or Aus
tin, Tex, a point 1000 miles south Of
Rome, but enjoying as equable a cli-
mate. In its present limits Egypt iYl-
cludes many regions where Europeans
would thrive as well as in any part Of
| Texas, and If the administration will
only supplement its work Of building a
!. dam by planting trees in every suitable
place the days of Egypt's ancient
grandeur may again be repeated and