Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-11-13
A COMPREHENSIVE POLICY.

be of the utmost Importance 10
trade, commercial and agricul-
tural interests in the entire coun-
try. 1t is inevitable that there
can be neither increase nor de-
crease in transportation facilities
without the effects of the one or
the other operating to the benefit
or the loss of all interests-the
consumer no less than the pro-
ducer. The National Rivers and
Harbors Congress was the pioneer
i'm the demand for policy with
reference to waterway improve
ments. The advocacy of pro-
iects was, and ever would be,
n stumbling block in the way
of genuine advertisement of the
cause of water way improvement
and the fact is sufficiently
demonstrated in the other fact
that to-day, and Notwithstanding
the appropriations made by the
Congress of the United States less
than seven percent of the more
than 25, 900 miles of inland water
ways of the country have been
improved-and with not all i'm
provements undertaken even APP
proaching completion.
The need is for a definite plan
of waterway improvement as part
of the inefficient policy of apprc-
priations for projects as Hon.
William H. Taft put it before the
Deep Waterways Convention at
Chicago when he said:
"a policy which brooks such
delay is wasteful, if nothing
worse. Some steps toward a new
departure in river and harbor APP
propriatio ns are apparent in the
rivers and harbors bill passed by
the Fifty-ninth Congress, where
in provision is made for the COM
pletion of a much larger proper
ton of projects than in any pre-
vious measure. Perhaps the great
est influence toward framing a
broad, comprehensive and pro,
gressive policy of river and har'
Dor improvements is being exert.
ed by the National Rivers and
and Harbors Congress, of which
your association is q member. Its
motto is "a policy, not project.
Through its work the question oI
waterway improvements has beef
most prominently and favorably
brought before the public ant
men of the highest character anC
influence throughout the country
are enlisted in its cause"
In like manner, and at the sam
convention, Hon. w j. Bryan
urged OIL the convention the he
cessity for systematic plans TO
waterway improvement, the man
ifest sentiment of the two grea
political parties being that tn
day of projects had passed be
cause of the intelligent presen
tation of the facts through tn
National Rivers aud Harbors Con
gress-that waterway improve
ment was not u political but a
economic question of the utmos
Importance to the true develop
ment of the enormously large as
ricultural, industrial aud con
mercial interests of the Unite
States, oil of which are now SUI
fering from inadequate transpol
tation facilities. There should b
thoroughly representative delega
tions from every State in til
Union, from every city and fror
oil commercial, agricultural an
industrial organizations to tn
meeting of the National River
and Harbors Congress. Both pa
ties, and the candidates of bot
parties, have declared themselv'
in favor the definite plan of W;
terway improvements as urged l.
the Congress, the deliberatior
and the action of which will |
of the greatest possible benefit
all classes and conditions depent
ing OH transporation-that is
say the entire country.
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