Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-02-26
For Coroner.
I'M PARTS OF THE WHOLE.

tIOu OF Waterway
the suggestion is sometimes made
that "minor improvements can
watt" followed by references to
special projects rs the first that
should receive attention from the
government Of the United States
in the steps taken towards BRING
ing about navigsble conditions Mt
all seasons Of the year. The sug-
sestiou ovsrlooks two facts OF inn
portance. One fact is embodied
in the abandonment of the old
time rule of the project without
regard to o policy. The other fact
10 embodied in the automatic
proposition that in the adoption
Of . policy MI projects worthy OF
consideration are component parts
Of the whole, with each bearing
its constituent part to the COM
prehensive whole aud with each
receiving governmental attention
in due time and with due eonsid-
GRAFTON.
Demand for the improvement
Of any special waterway or for
the undertaking of any special
project, no matter in what part
of the United States it may be,
isa demand for o backward step
in the vital work of waterway
improvement. Acquiescence in
the demand would be an aban-
donment of the advanced position
which all political parties have
taken. That advanced and en-
lightsned position has received
the unqualified endorsement of
the President, the President-elect,
of Senators and Representatives
in Congress and of all trade aud
commercial interests in each one
Of the forty-six States of the
Union. 1t has received that en-
dorsement not alone because oil
IN awakened public sentiment
and not alone because of the mr.
gent demsnds of trade and COM
mercs, Edt because of the ab-"-
lutte aud the conceded merits OF
. line of action on the part OF
che government which in deter
mining to improve the whole,
under q policy. necessarily in
cludes the improvement of each
one of the parts of the whole.
Whether waterway - - ~
considered q minor or major
constituent in determining the
question of improvement, is 6
question for determination by the
constituted authorities of tn,
country. That determination il
to be based upon the merits o.
the stream, its tonnage, bearing
capacity when improved, its gen
sral relation to the question o
transportation and it's relation t.
the determination of all parties
20 utilize the natural highways o
trade and commerce, the advant
ages of which have long been rec
nised but the improvement o
which has been delayed because
Of the old time, and the false
program of "a Project; not .
Policy"
In the reversal of that program
and in bringing about the adop
ti0i Of the program of "A Policy
not . Project" the National Riv'
era and Harbors Congress has beer
the leader aud the persistent ad.
vocate aud that its program will
become u settled part of the pol
icy Of the Federal Government j.
not to be doubted. That it would
Be adopted was Sd assured fact
from the day on which the com.
nercial, the industrial. the agri.
cultural and the waterway asso-
ciations of the country represent.
Cd in the National Rivers aud
Harbors Congress, forced the
question out of politics and
placed il where it rightly belongs
lin the eatagory of economic
questions of vital Importance to
oil sections aud to all interests
Of the country.
Az Senator Knox pointedly and
eouvincingly said in his address
on "The Future of Commerce, I"