Morgan County republican., 1909-10-28

power to other individuals.
I'm the meantime remains in the
ownership Of the Government enoug
power sites over which the Govern.
ment may retain control by disposing
through conditional deeds or leases or
some other form Of conditional dis.
position 30 ,lat the rate can be di.
rectly regulated through the owner.
ship by the Government Of these ex
listing power sites. (Applause.)
There will then be q number Of
power sites absolutely owned by pri.
vate individuals, a number controlled
by the State, and still more owned
by the Government under the char.
acter Of title I 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 I come 20 the subject of
waterways. We have done a great
deal In this country in the improve
ment Oh waterways, and we have spent
great deal OF money. l am not crit.
icising the method then pursued. We
were engaged In growing; we had
great many things to do, and the first
money that was expended ought to
have been expended in the develop.
ment OF our harbors on the sea coast.
Theory Was Wrong.
I'VE have spent great deal OF
money on the waterways inland. l DO
not think 1t has been spent as much
to good purpose as 1t would have
been had we adopted some other theo.
ry, and some otner method; Sut !
am not here to crticise 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
time In the history of the develop
ment OF our waterways when a new
method ought to be adopted. ZAP
plause.)
NOW I would like to clear away a
good many suppositions that l am
afraid have lodged in your minds. This
matter OF waterways, improvement by
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 II 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 1t Is
going to give a certain part OF the
country during the expenditure of that
money prosperity. II that Is the prin.
ciple, and the one which deprecate,
Is to obtain, I am in favor of going
along the same old way we have gone
on before.
"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 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 II
can be done and | am In favor OF Is.
suing the bonds to do it, and II II
shall turn out that some part of the
country Is linked to particular pro.
ject by reason Of the eloquent and
large words and general lively imag.
ination. that is not sustained by the
facts OF an investigation then that part
of the country has got to wait until
1t can grow up to that project and
that project come to 1t.
II am not minimizing the Difficult.
ties that 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 l value more intensely than
I 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 plan
of Importance that II carried on atd
without sanity and without knowl-
edge Of the good that Is to come
from 1t will bankrupt the Government.
Now there Is proposition that we
issue 500 million or a billion dollars
of bonds for 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 Fart to the Ohio. am>opposed
to It.
Opposes Split.Up Policy.
II am opposed to II because 1t not
only smells of the pork barrel but It
| will be the pork barrel. Lei every
project stand on its own Bottom, let
1t prove Itself by means OF its friends
and by means of those who know
whether 1t is to be profitable or not,
and then enter upon It; but do not let
| US In the investigation by a big dec
| laratiOn and eloquence embark on Q