The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-26
RIVER CONGRESS
IN WASHINGTON
NATIONAL GATHERING TO BOOST
DEEP WATERWAY TO BE
HELD IN DECEMBER.
BANNER COTTON CROP


Washington, Nav - In view 0
thd condition of national transports
tion affa rs, which gives prom mise 0
growing more aggravated each yea
the couatly is turning 10 he deyelol
lmcut Of new systems Of transposta
f tion. Although pos eRsed Of the fines
Il waterways of any nation In the world
the United States has let hem lie idle
While Germany. France and Enganc
have been improving heir rivers All
halbors and buldi1g canals This cour
Try has devoted all its attention 10 tn
development Of railroads This policy
while laadahle in itself, has cos Am
eficun merchants ana manufacturer
heavily in lost trade for Germany
England and France, by reason g
cheap water transportation, have ber
eaahlel practically to dominate The
markeJs of Central and South Am
erica.
There is a tendency however 10
ward reform in This question of trans
portatiou The National Rivers ana
lfmhors congress. which Will hold IFS
invention here December G ANA 7
has been bringing he matter squarely
before the people OF the country and
il will urge on the Federal govern
mant an annual appropriation of $50
eco 600 to pursue he work Of develop
ment With the rivers and harbor.
de7 eloped the congestion of com.
merce viii be relieved and business
throughout the entire United States
VIII take on a heal hier activity.
Already there are projects approved
by government engineers aggregatine
more than $500 100000 For the last
ter Hgsl eangr ss has n6f recognized
the necessity for a more aggre ssiyo
policy ia carrying ont the recon-
mendaioaa and the appropriations fer
wa erWays work have been My per
cent Of the entire appropriations made.
Commerce has been ignored in this
way ~h lc thc army and navy, and the
pension lists have been awarded 10
per cen OF ,he whole Il is the hope
of Ale friends Of waterways work >
secure recoen tion for their plans nj
the coming session
The mind scarcely can grasp the
fact tbat train $500 miles il length
is needed within the next few weeks
To carry To market the cotton crop Of
the United States, Yet this is the
eXtimate made by government experts
Some idea of the magnitude OF the
crop may be had when il is known
that the 3E@.G89 cars needed to move 1t
would form a train that with the en-
gine putting In San Franz cisco stil
would nave some POO miles of its rear
buried Ia the waters of the Atlantic
ocean
Bumpa Cotton Crop Shown.
I'm addition. to this heavy traffic IN
cotton thc railroads of the country
This year are facing even more trying
conditions in the grain-carryi.g trade.
There were needed i'm be last twelve
months 5.5SS1G2 cars to move the
bumper crops of thc country from
farm to market Never i'm history
have The transportation companies
been SO taxed, and by reason Of the
marvellous growth of an forms of com
mcrce they have not KEEP pace with
coud ti0ns although locomotive and
car manufacturers are working day
and night in an effort TO keep up with
orders
Political Talk at Capital.
Wa hiu~on has no great manufac-
Hring Industries. no great transpcr-
tition interests. no wide extended
commerce. TO occupy the public mind.
so we have to be- content with politics /
and soc ETY. It is the absence of all +
other in,eres that makes Washing +
ton q sort of political and social cen /
fer from whence the country take1 it's +
political pahulum and its social ethics /
IF we couldn't talk politics. if We wcro /
deprived of imagining tha an polit cal /
wisdom cmanatod from here. if our +
vanity was punctured and we were
told that the social world aid not cen
Ter aro I'd the White House. and the I
wives O f,he president and his cabinet +
were not in realty the social leaders .
RI the country. like Othello. We would /
find orr occHpat ton gone
Congressman are coming. and the .
neWspaDer correspondents vho have F.
1eon away attending 10 their ardu-
bus duties Of guiding the public mip
fI ght are HOciiiug back preparatory /.
o beginning once more the ordinary
-r.ud oi keeping he world informed .
is to What congress and the admins.
ration are intending 20 do. AT thes.
-0me fresh from The warm huf h'olI-
css political battle that has been
Ought oI iu he several states. ami
zach ca- telI just VIVA han1aneI. i8w
Z haDpened and why .t haDp eae5 ami 4
lnce more the political min wiI brr-n