Arizona republican., 1912-08-08

tion than that of conservation. We have been a spendthrift nation and must now husband what we have left. We must do more than that. We must develop. as well as preserve, our water powers and must add great waterways to the transportation facil- ities of the nation, to supplement the railways within our borders as well as upon the Isthmus. We must revive our merchant marine too and fill the seas again with our own fleets. We must add to our present post office service a parcels post as complete as that of any other nation. We must look to the health of our people upon every hand as well as hearten them w.th justice and opportunity This is the constructive work of gov ernment. This is the policy that has a vision and a hope and that looks to serve mankind
 With regard to the development of greater and more numerous water ways and the building of a merchant marine. we must follow great con structiVe lines and not fall back upon the cheap device of bOuntieS and sub sidies In the case of the Mississippi river, that great central artery of our trade it is plain that the federal government must build and maintain the Ievees and keep the great waters in harness for the general use. It is pIain too, that vast sums of money must be spent to develop new water ways where trade will be most ser ved and transportation most readily cheapened by them. Such eXpendi- lures are no longer on the part of the government; they are national invest ments.
 "The very fact that we have at last taken the Panama Canal seriously in hand and are vigorously pushing it towards completion is eloquent of our re-awakened interest in inter national trade. We are not building the canal and pouring out million upon million of money upon it's construction mere ly to establish water connection be- tween the two coasts of the continent, ] important and desirable as that may be; particularly from the point of view
 of naval defense. It is meant to be a great international highway It would be a little ridiculous if we should build it and then have no SnlpS to StllU through IL. IeIe have been years when not a single
 ton of freight passed through the great SueZ canal in an American bot 7 tom. so empty are the seas of our ! ships and seamen. We must mean to ] put an end to that kind of thing or we would not be cutting new canal
 at our very doors merely for the use ! of our men Of-War. We shah not manage the revival by the mere pal try device of tolls We must build
 and buy ships in competition with the world We can do it if we will but give ourselves leave.
 There is another duty which the l Democratic party has shown itselt great enough and close enough to the
 people to perceive. the duty of gov ernment to share in promoting agri-
 cultural. industrial. vocational educa- tion in every way possible within its
 constitutional powers. No other plat
 form has given this intimate visOr
 of a partys duty. The nation can
 not enjoy it's deserved supremacy il
 the markets and enterprises of tn,
 world unless it's people are given thu ease and effectiveness that come Onl! with knowledge and training. Edu
 cation is part of the great task o . conservation, part of the task of re