The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-15
CANNON TALKS
ON WATERWAYS
The speaker is in Favor Of Their I'm.
provement and Leaves His
Seat In House to
Say So.
GIVES HIS PROPHECY
Says That Nations Population Will
Soon be 100000, COO and Rail-
way Mileage viii
be stupendous.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.-"If we
lose sight OF our own Importance and
our own position for the time being,
there will come in our places better
and wiser men who will not lose sight
of the necessity to provide for an
orderly procedure under which the
majority can work in all; where re-
sponsibility rests there must be power
with the majority to move on. being
responsible"
Cannon speaking from the lower
floor of the house as the gentleman
from Illinois, sounded this warning.
He arose for the purpose of advocar-
ing the river and harbor bill, but dur
Ing the twenty minutes speech he re
ferred lightly to magazine and news
paper criticism, and reminded the
minority that the power of the ma.
Jority was futile unless controlled by
organization. 1t was while Fitzgerald
had the floor that the n .mbers were
surprised to see the speaker rise
from his seat in their midst and in
quire
will the gentleman from New
York yield to nle?"
Il will yield to the gentleman from
Illinois," Fitzgerald said.
Cannon told the house, how, durin !
Arthur's administration. b (. voted 10
pass the rivers and harbc-s bill orer
the presidents veto. He said he had
some trouble in justifying that vote
before his constituents, but did so.
Il thanked God then. as now. sad
Cannon. that that constituency, ald
agricultural district. as tits today, had
the patriotism crossed with the
breadth of Intelligence, to- stand by
me at the polls,
With the eyes of prophecy he saw
the nations population growing from
90,000,00o to 500,000,000.
Already we have almost half the
railroad mileage of this earth,'' he de-
clared. carrying a third of the pro-
ducts of the civilized world back and
forth to market Long before the
500,0O0.000 are here, if we are to de.
pend upon the railway transportation
alone. We will have railway mileage
multiplied by two, by three. by four.
1t is a long work to add to nature
sufficient deep water to carry the
great constantly increasins com
merce.
Referring to his trip down the Mis-
sissippi with Taft, in connection with
newspaper attacks at that time, Can
non said:
When | turned to come back from
New Orleans, from criticisms ant
many others received, not founded
upon information, it made me wonder
whether | was afoot or horseback
whether 1t was or somebody else.
II expect that we will continue tt
receive all kinds Of correct and fake
information that IS fished for here ant
there continued the speaker, III
order that our great metropolitan
journals may continue some of them
to make their papers from day to day
like the Yankee made his razors, t.
sell. But desire to say to the gentle
men on both sides OF the house tha
In the last analysis, out of the tw,
great organizations, the minorit
from time to time putting the major
ity on its good behavior and seekin;
to become the majority, will com
correct legislation and correct appre
priations for the greatest good of tn,
people of the republic,