The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-29

by the Government under the char
acter of title | have defined; and we
may rest assured that under that ar
rangement monopoly cannot possess
itself Of all the power sites in the
country. (Applause.)
And now l come 90 the subject OF
waterways. We have done a great
deal in this country in the improve
ment OIL waterways, and we have SpenS
a great deal of money. | am not crit
icising the method then pursued. We
were engaged in growing; We had a
great many things to do, and the first
money that was expended ought to
have been expended in the develop
Theory Was Wrong.
w nave spent a great deal Of
money on the waterways inland. | 90
not think it has been spent as much
to a good purpose as it would have
been had we adopted some other theo-
ry, and some otner method; but l
am not here to criticise that, and l
think that a great deal could probably
be said in defense of the economy that
has been pursued in that matter; but
| do think that we have now reached
a time in the history of the develop
ment of u waterways when a new
method ought to be adopted. Gap
plause.)
NOW would like to clear away a
good many suppositions that l am
afraid have lodged in your minds. This
nooffnr IF xroforuox-c hyy
irrigation of the arid and subarid
lands and OF this conservation of its
resources is, not for the purpose OF
distributing pork to every part of the
country.
Every measure that is to be taken
and adopted must be on the ground
that it is useful to the country at large
and not on the ground that it is going
to send certain Congressman back to
Congress or on the ground that it is
going to give a certain part of the
country during the expenditure OF that
money prosperity. If that is the prin'
ciple, and the one which | deprecate,
is to obtain, l am in favor of going
along the same old way we have gone
on before.
Taft's Method.
"The method of which | am in favor
of is this, that we should take up
every comprehensive project on its
merits, and we should determine by
all of the means at our command
where the country in which that logic
is to be carried out has so far de-
velOped as to justify the expenditure
of a large sum in carrying out the
project, and where the project Will be
useful when done.
when you have determined that
on the general principle of good to
the entire country, then am in favor
of doing that work as rapidly as it
suing the bonds to do it, and if it
shall turn out that some part of the
country is linked to a particular pro-
ject by reason of the eloquent and
large words and a general lively imag-
nation, hat is not sustained by the
facts of an investigation then that part
of the country has got to wait until
it can grow up to that project and
that project come to 1t.
81 am not minimizing the difficult
ties hat are going to arise in select
ing what has to be done or in determ-
lining the order in which those pro-
jects are to be carried out.
Il know / value more intensely than
| ever did in my life the intelligence,
the interest and local patriotism that
we find all over the United States.
But we cannot trust that under a plan
of Importance that If carried on and
without sanity and without a knOwl-
edge of the good that is to come
from it will bankrupt the Government.
Now there is a proposition that we
issue 500 million or a billion dollars
of bonds for a waterway and then
that we just give that up an apportion-
ate part to the Mississippi and part to
the Atlantic, a part to the Missouri
and a part to the Ohio. I am opposed
to it.
Opposes SpIit-Up Policy.
Il am opposed to it because it not
only smells of the pork barrel but 1t
will be the pork barrel. Let every
project stand on it's own bottom, let
it prove itself by means of it's friends
and by means of those who know
whether it is to be profitable OF not,
and then enter upon it; but do not let
us in the investigation by a big dec
laration and e%loquence embark on a
plan that will reflect no credit on our
business and common and will
only display the S of that local pa
triotism, which, when united together,
makes up our grand Americanism.
"And now, my friends, l am going
to ask you to excuse me from speak
ing further, other than to say to you
that l have had great pleasure r
standing before this magnificent audi,
ence of st. Louis, of M~issourians, Of
congressman and of Governors, and 1t
makes my heart swell up with pa
triotism to look up in your faces and
to find here in the center Of the coun-'
try the same spirit of that determina-
ton to overcome any obstacles that
are between us and higher living and
greater prosperity that l have found
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
and from Canada to the Gulf"
Morphinism in France.
Opium, as has repeatedly been ex-