The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-10
Senator Duncan i. FletCher'S
Address At Jacksonville

were going on before this gigantic
struggle in Europe began. For in
stance, Morse and Bell little dream
ed that by this time you could stand
in your office and talk to your GUS
toner or neighbor in San Francisco
across the continent-4,OOO miles
away.
! When Marconi was endeavoring
to send a message from point on
shore to a ship in the harbor a few
miles distant, he never imagined
that he would today be transmitting
messages through the air 5000
miles
Recently on an inspection trip of
the Tennessee river, / saw the great
Brady dam at Hale's bar, SO feet
hi2h, and noted that it made the
river navigable several miles above
Chattanooga, a distance of some 40
miles in all. and at the same time
generated 10000 horse power of hy-
dro-electric energy which does the
work of thousands of tons of coal and
thousands of men in cities hundreds
of miles away. | visited the develop
ment on the Oconee river and saw
the l25 foot dam which gives $4,000
horse power and further up where
the stream is lifted 256 feet above
the bed and carried along the rock
clics or six miles, with a fall of II
feet, in a fiume IA feet wide and 9
feet deep and sent into turbines PAS
feet below to generate 10000 horse
power, or 30,0 kilowats, these en-
terprises serving for traction, light
ing heating and manufacturing pur-
poses, the cities of Nashville (1SO
miles distanD, Chattanooga, Cleve-
land, Knoxville and others.
Similar development has been
completed on the Black Warrior
river.
The Appalachian chain promises
area in this country, by reason of it's
water power possibilities and the
marvellous service being performed
by electricity.
We will soon be taken nitrogen,
one necessary element of plant food,
from the air and become independ-
ent of the nitrate fields of Chile.
This is but glimpse of the prog
ress we are making in industrial de-
velopment. The business men of to-
day cannot conduct his business, nor
can the farmer run his farm, or the
manufacturer his plant as did his
grandfather or his father before
him. Each must revise his methods
rom year to year. Even what was
judicious and proper practice a year
ago, may not be today. The banker
or merchant or manufacturer or pro-
Queer who fails to recognize that,
will make fatal mistake
A wise economy and judicious
thrift coupled with industry and
thoughtful lf-possession, all easily
practiced, will in due time see us
safely and securely prosperous.
AS nation, we are in position
to demonstrate to the world the
wisdom of the fathers who founded
this republic.
1t is now for us to prove, for the
benefit of humanity, that govern
ment with checks and balances I'M
der written constitution, deriving
it's first powers from the consent of
the governed. shall live as long as
civilization endures.
Our international policy. under
the guidance of that patriotic
statesman and scholar who serves so
acceptably and grandly as the chief
executive of this nation. and the
mighty heads of the departments
composing his cabinet, will be def
mite and broad, advancing alike our
own and the general interests of the
community of nations.
Standing on the solid bed rock of
American institutions. believing
there are such things as the laws OF
nations, insisting upon an Internal
ional policy both right and certain,
it may be our part to powerfully in
fluence the "remarking of Christen-
DOM"
My friends, be assured of my
grateful appreciation of your kind
ness