The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-09-15
Boost for Deep Water.

Boost for Deep Water.
II earnestly trust that at no dis
tant time the national authorities will
take up seriously the project for
deep waterway channel from the great
lakes to the gulf. Only by doing that
will the canalization Of the Ohio river
bear it's full fruit.
20 course before entering upon any
such scheme there must be most
careful preliminary survey and report,
and am sure that our waterways can
be and must be developed to the full
extent of their carrying capacity. We
are told every fall that the railways
are insufficient to handle the traffic.
Then there is every reason why we
should develop the highways that can
handle all the bulky stuff. Any such
scheme, of course, must be entered
into as a genuinely national policy.
I'VE must not try to develop the
Ohio or Mississippi and also develop
other streams that ought not to be
developed. There are certain great
harbors which must be cared for ma
tionally. Not at all solely, hardly even
primarily because of the people who
dwell on them, but because Of the peo-
pie who treat those harbors as the
doors of exit and entrance for their
commerce.
$50 our great river arteries must be
dealt with nationally, not even pri'
marily for the benefit of the people
along them, although they will be prob
ably most benefited, but because they
will benefit everybody within what
may be called the commercial trades
area. We need to have in all this
conservation work, of which the de-
velopment of our waterways is one,
we need to have it carried on on the
very highest plane.
Look to the Peoples interests.
"We need to put men on it who
shall fulfill their places with an eye
single to- the interests of all people.
No work like this done along the Ohio,
like the work that probably will be
done along the Mississippi, no work
in any way connected with this con-
servation work is, properly speaking,
political in its character, and the men
appointed to do it should be chosen
absolutely without reference to their
politics, and solely with regard to the
efficiency by which that work can be
done.
Wants Cincinnati To Grow.
81 want to see the commerce of Gin
cinnati grow. l therefore hope to see
the men who take the lead in promot-
ing that growth rewarded, but I do
not want to see them rewarded at all
unless they do full service equal to
the reward.
"If we make the rules of the game
so that man may cheat and take the
advantage of others we are wasting
time when we abuse that man. Let
us place the blame where it belongs
and change the rules. If man cheats
in violation of the law let him be pun
ished.
81 want to see the capitalization of
all great corporations doing interstate
business supervised by the national
government. You will find worthy peo-
pie who will say this should be left
to the state.
while I was president we found
two railroads running from Minnesota
to Puget Sound were being merged in
violation, as We held, of the national
law and of the laws of the states in
which the road operated.
eve took steps to stop the merger
and found that while the roads were
running from Minnesota through
North Dakota, Montana and Washing,
ton, they were incorporated in New
Jersey. They had not mile of track
in New Jersey, were controlled in New
York and ran their trains in the West.
There was only one power that could
deal with these corporations, and that