The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-09-02
COSTS ONLY oNE-sIXTH TO ONE.
TENTH AS MUCH AS BY
RAIL
TRANSFORMATIONS BIG TOLL.
American People Annually Pay OUT
Three Times as Much for Trans
portatlon as They Pay for Support
of the Government.
Do YOU know

is for the carriage OF freight ana pas
sengers. as they pay in taxes for the
support of government, national, state
and local?
That transportation affects the price
Of everything that everybody buys,
sells. eats, wears or uses in any way
whatever-air, water and sunshine ex-
copied?
That cheap transportation Dement'S
both the producer and the consumer,
making wheat and cotton higher and
-four and cloth lower at one and the
same time?
That the cheapest known transpor'
tation is water transportation, costing,
on the average, from one sixth to one
tenth as much as transportation by
rail?
That the direct saving on the goods
actually carried by water in the
United States is over $55O,OOO,OOO
year,
That railways always make lower
rates when subject to the competition
of waterways than where such compe-
tition does not exist?
That the indirect saving, thus
caused, is probably as large as the d.
rect saving given above?
That both the direct and indirect
saving would be largely increased by
the further improvement of our water
ways?
That waterways always increase the
proflts of the railways with which they
come into competition? For the rea-
son that waterways, by giving cheap
TRANSPORTATION for raw materials, actu'
ally create both industry and COM
merce? AS is indicated by the fact
That in 1900 there was only one city
in the United States, with population
of 10000 or over, which was not To-
Gated on a navigable waterway? And
further
How Frankfort Benefited.
That Frankfort, Germany, grew
more in the twenty years after the
River Main was canalized than 1t had
grown in the two hundred years be-
fore? And again
That Germany, which Is nearly So
600 square miles smaller than Texas,
but has one Of the finest waterway
systems in the world, had in 1908 q
foreign commerce greater than that OF
the United States by over $5OO,0OO'-
900?
That throughout the civilized world
the largest cities, the densest popula-
ton, the busiest and most prosperous
people are to be found along naViga-
BILE waterways?
That the surest and speediest way
to develop the resources of the nation
and every state and section thereof
to increase the growth of every city
and community in the country, to pro
mote the prosperity Of every interest
including the railroads, and of every
citizen, east, west, north and south, is
to improve all our waterways as fast
and as far as we can?
That money used for the improve
ment of waterways, wisely planned
and honestly constructed, is not an
expenditure but an investment, which
will pay a dividend of at least 100 pei
cent year?
Provision for Funds.
That the benefits which would re
suit from the comprehensive improve
ment of our waterways, and the losse:
which would follow our failure Il
make such Improvement, are so enor
nous. that funds should be provided
BY the issuance of bonds-as has - -
done by railways-so that the NO
may be begun at once and fnishe. a
soon as possible?
That the national government claim!
exclusive jurisdiction and exercise;
supreme control over all nav!gable wa
terways? And therefore
That it depends entirely on the con
gress of the United States wEe.hcl
the work of creating a great na,ion2
system of waterways shall be dcTa .
all and how soon it shall be fia:zh"I
That the vote of the member c. {. Il
gress from your district will hep q
decide the policy of the gove:HCea
with regard to waterways?
That the action of congressman il
Influenced by the wishes OF their con
stituents. when they know What =. 5
wishes are?
That you have the right to 2sA u
candidates for congress in your
trict to state their position en-
question now, before the electo."
That you are blind to your OWN IL
terests If you do not ask your caad
dates to pledge themselves 10 wcc
and vote for waterways II elected -
then demand of the enc who IS e.ect
ed that he shall keep his pledge?
The facts and figures given in thi
series of articles have been subEitte
in the hope that those WIN read ther
would see the importance of the Polic
of waterway improvement advocate
by the National Rivers and Harbor
congress, and would aid in securin
the adoption of that policy. How We
they have served the purpose 70
which they we're written must be LEI
for their readers to decide.
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