Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FdD0rS NdDigdble RiUer
Edttor of the TeleQrdph:

! TO the Editor of the Telegraph:
A copy of your paper of October
has just come into my possession.
The article on United States Govern
ment becoming interested in making
the Susquehanna river naVigable
from tidewater to Harrisburg, Pa,
a great benefit for the people.
Knowing the interest you have
always taken in all Improvements for
the advancement of the growth and
development of interests to Harris
burg and the State, l write you at
| this time to use your great influence
in the Chamber of Commerce i'll
every possible way to have this great
| improvement and betterment of the
| interests to the people along the
line of the Susquehanna river and its
adjoining sections made. Now is the
! time to do a great memorial of re-
adjustment in the name of peace and
prosperity for the interest ,of the
American people by giving to them
~ system of cheaper transportation
by making the Susquehanna river
one of the Government owned inland
waterways.
Dams could be built at Columbia,
one at Middletown, Pa, where ma
ture has already done half the work
| by placing Hill Island in the river.
The Swatara creek as a harbor or
terminal, and the three-m1e islands
as a system of canal and locks. ON
the breast of the dam could be built
a roadway connecting Middletown
and New Cumberland. A dam could
| be built at Lucknow on which 81
roadway could be built connecting
! Rockville and Enola. At Clark's
Ferry a dam could be built for the
same purpose, and at different points
best suited, selected by the United
States engineers, for the purposes OF
preventing floods in the spring OF
every year, making basins or lakes
TO hold all the water that may come
/ from SHOWS or spring rains, stopping
damages that now occur every spring,
the amount of which in few years
would pay the entire cost OF the
work done. 1t would reduce the
cost of labor for electric power, nSht
and heat to the people, also cheaper
TRANSFORMATION, reducing very greatly
the high cost of living. 1t would py
giving to the farmer the electric cur
rent at a nominal cost, enable tne
farmer and his family TO nave the
! corfyeniences of city life, removing
all drudgeries that are now a but-
den to farm life and a great draw
hack 10 many who now exist in large
cities TO emigrate to the land where
they can live and enjoy life, having
full and plenty the whole year round.
! With good American schools in
| every co-operatiVe community ha|-
ling social centers, 1t would not be
MANY years until the country farmer
and his family would be centers OF
a class of happy people that are not
found in large cities, where more
| criminals are made than are porn
] mir of country lie.
! If the Chambers of Commerce
along the line of the Susquehanna
river would join hearts and handS
and use their united efforts to nave
dams erected along the same, con-
serving the energy that is now lost
from the flow of water that could
he used in producing electric cur
rent for power, light and neat Tor
the people along the line or the same
now wasted by the people in their
efforts to live the Bood llle oil 'hiS
plain of life.
only those who We're born on the
farm, or in small country towns who
were foolishly tempted to leave the
home town to locate in large city,
where people do not live, only exist,
where a few make money and lose
their souls for the privilege of accu-
lnlulatinC gold, with WnlCn Lney .DuTy
IalI their good intentions of early
life's ambitions. The masses in the
cities live from hand to mouth.
When Saturday night comes 1t takes
lall the wages earned during the week
to pay mp bills accumulated during
the week.
If they are fortunate to have
work. for many do not and want,
lmany would be very thankful to get
back to the land if they only could
ihave the opportunity to do so. The
immigration laws should have a sec
ton compelling all immigrants en-
tering America to first declare them
selves to become American citizens;
second, that they live seven years on
a farm of not less than three acres
and liberty as producers before they
can live in n large city, or to be
deported if they live in city be-
fore seven years to be consumed.
America should be reserved for
Americans.
Manufactures should be estab-
lish ed in small cities, where God
loving people control, and not III
large cities where "money-m.d d
trusts" control. making the people
slaves for them to be masters for q
few years on this plane of life. to
have regrets throughout eternity. II
will then be too late, when the last
trumpet sounds, for US to appear he
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