The Nevada County picayune., 1912-10-04
WOULD HAVE TIE WORK
 DONE IN FIVE YEARS
COL. ROOSEVELT TAKES STAND IN FAVOR OF FEDERAL SUP
 REVISION AID AID.
l0B TOO BIG F0R STATES
Elect Robinson cf Arhan5as Alss Declares Government Should Render Financial Atd in Comqiet, isg Work.

Western Newspaper Uajoe Ne~s Service
 Memphis. Resolutions asking tao appropriation Of $%5.0890 0a9 by the federal government for building Of leyees and the reyetme4t Of the lanks of tue Miesissipp' river were adopted |, the Interstate Letee Association at is meeting ia Memphis The gofefa ,ncnt is asked to undertake the cGaI pletioH of this work within the haSt five years. The association too& this action after considering carefully tn various methods proposed fer coutfait- ing lbe fi00d waters Cf the Mississlppl and after reaching the conclusion that the completion of the levce SIS teul. a airgady hesan. offers the lest aud only protection against reeurfthg floods in the lowcr river.
 Col. Theodore Roosevelt. the Pro EresSive nomin ee for president, ih speech before the convention. declared strongly in favor cf the federal gay- ernment taking charge of the leYee problem.
 It k evident hc said. that no one state can so much Us mako all eff cent beginning in the erdeavCr to grapple with this s"''iect. Each state inerel, treats the subject from its own standpoint. forJnately this mat Ior has become of pressing importance I, the very time when the nation has learned by actual experience that it is amply able to undertake the most colossal eaGiueeaiEe joha and has, as iH incident thereto, collected the plant wlth which 1t eau undertake another job of the samo size.
 "The Panama canal is uow nearing completion and tho skill and trained ability ana taa machinery used in ifs construction are asalable for usC' Nitiiin our own borders in develooirg a proper national cJrtrcl of the wat. ITS Of the Mississippi tasin in their entirely.
 "lt is useless to go into such proiacg unless we so into t on broad scale. and the attempts to prevent the breaking Of the iorees in the lower part Of the river will not alone meet this need. How should we have come out had we attempted 10 dig tho faaa. ma carai ty pieemaal as cur legeos have been butlta We had to tackle 1hst job in its eutirety a2d now 1t is nearly done.
 These frettets trom the soufca1 oI the rivers can only be controlled at thcir sources.
 The problem of dealing with tn s,ississippi river is mueh greater than in merely keeping tLe water off the buds of any one set ef men IL really concerns changing the conditions Ha- der which half the continent is drain ea and te.niae cur giant internal rifeF s.sten iuto q eieauGe nat oaal as.et
 Tue problem is a ia ioaal ore, not for the state. because ~"At threatens eacd state with ruin is cltcn Ho' any tt.ag Nh1 eh can he mado eaeiiciai to ihat yiate. The federal E5s,rnmen- shoald tarnese the wat ef the Ms sisslnfi river dfajG2Ge { sin. No one state can do even snaA part of the work in first-ciass fashion.
 Take Louisiana. fer instance. Al though the great drainage ditch Of the Nississppi flows right throret ioni. siam. the drainage ot Louisiana her self does not fion inte this ditch, bu. into the gull. Louisiana spends mil lions to keep the drainage of c her states eff her fertile cane and ricH ard vegetable plantations.
 "she even maintains q ereat leyee line. wholly within tho state of Ark sasas as necessary link in her pro tection. Yet she has no control over the states where the flood comes from. s-~,-es-,-~->->-->-~>--- ~-s~>--'~-s~7->-'-->~>-