The Cairo bulletin., 1914-03-13
Cairo, Impreguable and Whole, Pre-
eininently Gateway of Two
Valleys to the Canal.
PICTURE OF WHAT CAN BE
ACCOMPLISHED FOR CAIRO
Opportunity Must Be Grabbed BY
Progressive Spirits in Con-
certed Moment.

Let every Cairoite hesitate fol- n
few moments and mediate on the
great possibilities in store for the
city they love so well--the oppor-
tunity for advancement is here and
it requires only another exhibition
of thar progressive, aggressive, de-
termined fighting spirit to succeed
in obtaining results.
While other cities in the Missis-
sippi and Ohio valleys are tightening
their belts and leaning upon their
weapons and pondering which IS the
best remedy to prevent future food
menaces, Cairo stands entrenched
behind impregnable walls Of rein-
forced concrete and mountainous
walls of earth rip-rapped with rock
safe beyond all possibilities of -
currenco of flood panics-oft recur-
ring floods which did not inundate
the city, but which caused alarm
ard apprehension and was the
means Of preventing timid capital
from making extensive investments
this statement is based on truth-
we all know it beyond doubt
While other cities in the valleys
are arguing which is the best plan
for flood prevention-the Newlands
plan of reservoirs, or the Ransdell-
Humphrey scheme OF levees from
Cano Girardeau to New Orleans,
which f either plan is adopted will
take many years to complete before
they are certain of obtaining relief
Cairo through through aid of self, It's
varied railroad interests, National
and State aid is NOW in a position
where it can successfully challenge
competition and invite rigid com
parison by less fortunate cOmmunl-
tiet.
In Cairo, men will in the future
60 about their business ABSOLUTE
LY SURE.
No longer will the winds of Marla
and the rains OF April act as deter
rents % timid capital.
And in all the two valleys, The
new measure of activity, of conf
merce, of business, of agriculture. Of
manufacturc and mining, greatly
augmented by the opening of the
Panama Canal. will CONVERGE
: TOWARD THE CITY Or CAIRO is
the GATEWAY of the TWO VAL
LEYs to the PANAMA CANAL
CITY OF CAIRO. THE CAPITAL
,C'T A VAST INLAND EMPIRE.
AMI here in this Capital, the Gate.
= way of Two Valleys to the Panan a
Canal, Cairo absolutely safe and
whole is destined to be the bere-
firiary of the products OF this great
inland empire included in the mid.
= die west, all seeking an outlet to the
Gulf of Mexico on the road to The
: Canal-to her merchants, to he
banks, to her railroads, to hel
= wharfboats will come the products
of the farms, the products of tn,
= manufactures, the products of tn,
vast coal fields of Southern Illinois
Indiana and Pennsylvania, all bouac
+. for a voyage TO some port of th'
seven seas Of the western hemis
II pherc.
j. A dream?
Too sood to be true.
, So men have sneered before a
g many, many things that have cor1
t to pass-men scoffed and engineer
said that the greatest ditch tha
ever vas dug, COULD NOT, COULI
3 NEVER be completed in the exae
n way, shape and form in which it i
W completed
~ And the world is filled with Eos
y SILs.
A dream of CAIRO as the CAPT
-, tai of a VAST INLAND EMPIRE
No, A plain picture in the 1arg
= lof the changes that can be vrougf
IA PICTURE OF WHAT CAIR
CAN BE MADE SINCE THE PAN
ANA CANAL Is AN ESTABLISHE
=, FACT.
- BIT this is not to be realized
- complaisance is to be the order; nc
to be realized if through pure III
adulterated laziness we permit tt
golden opportunity to slip by; EC
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