Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-11-12
WATERWAYS
LEGISLATION
Will the East Lend Its Efforts to Pro-
ject Of so Deep Interest to
The West.
EXPOSITION AT San FRANCISCO
The Rocky Mountain and Pacific States
Favor Golden Gate City.

aid of either the East or the West
in order TO get its desired deep
waterways legislation. The East
never will lend its effor is to pro.
iect so manifestly against the busi-
ness interest of the East The West
will stand with the Middle West
and make deep waterways a fact
for all states on the Mississippi
and its tributaries provided that the
Middle West does not deliberately
show itself hostile to the Far
Western slates.
In any contingency. no matte,
how thu cards fall, Louisiana, New
Orleans, the Southern states. will
vote for deep waterways. They are
rs vitality interested in that as are
any of the Middle Western states
what states more interested than
louisiana Will Louisiana vote
against the deepening of the Miss
issippi and the Ohis though the
states on the upper reaches o1
the Mississippi and the Ohio thru
the states on the upper reaches Of
these rivers do not support New
Orleans a. the site of the exposition
which will celebrate the completion
of the Panama canal in 1915? Will
Louisiana Thus vote against some
thing that she realizes fully will
enormously increase her commerce,
her prominence as the shipping
point for the great up-river states
But how about the West? The
governors of Is Western states met
recentlv in Salt City and Endorsed
San Francisco as the exposition
city. All the Rocky Mountain and
Pacific Slope states are united into
solid column-of support for San
Francisco. The Western sta tes
want the exposition in San Francis
co. Taey believe they need it,
| Just as the middle Western states
believe they need deep waterways
legislation. The Panama CT ma
supplies the West with all the
water avs il wants.
And if the Middle Wess does
not al her Far Western sisters ir
their desire, will the Far West aic
the Middle Western states in wha'
they anti
A Pacific Coast Congress will
meet in San Franisco Nov. f6. Is
and 10. Various topics of vital in
terest to the West will be discussed
Governors, Senators, Representa-
tives and prominent men from tn
states viii attend, and the matte
= of the exposition site. and the in
fluences at work on it, win. be dis
cussed and decided upon. The Yves
it is said, has dons her part in s.
curing benefits for the balance o
the nation, but rer own request
have not met with hAttering con
sideration. The West is going I
meet and talk it over before Con
gress this December
The East is opposing the Middl
Western state in their deep water
WAYS ambitions, and overture
have been made and arc bein
made tn the West. Meanwhile tn
Middle " est is missing ~ oppor
tunitv {, SECURE the vote, that sur
ely will gain its desire. VIII,
should the Middle West vacillat
in the support TO be given the Eek
position City when the issue is =
plain? Keep the friends hound I
you by tirs of self interest wi
force New Orleans to remain frien
ly with the Middle West, her par
TRY and her treasury Get ths Sole
West over on our side That wi
be easy If we support the Yves
impossible if we oppose her.