Arizona republican., 1920-06-10

rado river through which 5,0O0,O0O acres of the best land in the world could be reclaimed, with industrial eI- bow room for 100000 people under the American flag and with greater SO ciaI and economic value than the whole of India, Japan, China and the Philip pines combined.
 The productive capacity, as well as the consumption capacity, of the mil lion people within the watershed of the Colorado river is greater than that Of the billion serfs of the Orient-in other words. a ratio of not "16 to T. but 1000 to Ito say nothing of the far greater community interest. Speaking as one not only familiar with the Orient with all of its trade intricacies and diplomatic quicksands" as well as a personal and somewhat close range Acquaintance with the Pacific Water% shed from Alaska to Mexico, will say that I would rather have the trade of the Empire of the Southwest than a deed to the whole of the Orient with a mandate" over Turkey thrown in as an additional liability.
 With a view to relieving the interior states of unjust burdens in the way of a coast discrimination, the Eco homie Society of America" of which l have the honor to be president, has a bill before the United States providing for the construction and operation of federal ship and rail terminals through which an economic waste of $10O.000,- 900 a year can be eliminated, all of which is now paid by the producer and consumer in the final analysis, as you of course know.
 Another and even more important factor involved in the constructor and operation of those seaboard terminals is their proper use. not only by ships | over which the government will exer- else authority by reason of it's owner 1 ship of or lien upon those ships, but I the railroads as well by reason of its 1 guarantee of a fixed income. That means that freight will move hereafter ! of the old law of combination. This means much to states like Arizona ! which lies within sight of the seq without enjoying it's privilege of cheal freights.
 As the author of the Alaskan govern ment cable of 1897. which led to the I construction of the Alaskan govern ment railroad, as we'll as the auuhol and designer of every modern slliI and rail terminal from Seattle to Sal l Diego, with a full knowledge Of ShIl ! and rail construction and operation, 1 am prepared to show in a public hear ing or otherwise that freight withou reference to classification other thai the weight or measurement priyileg can be transported between any raj point in Arizona and any seaboard poin
 on the Atlantic through the Panam; canal in less than railroad time, ol
 the through haul, at figure not t' exceed S15 per ton at the extreme point ] While that policy of relief to the in
 terior has aroused some rail; cad opIo | sition, backed up by commerce.
 bodies in seaports without steamshi lines, as in the case of San Diego.
 am prepared to prove that the full us i of the sea and the substitution of tn unprofitabIe burdensome long haul fo
 that of the profitable short haul, wi
 not only yield the railroads a greate
 net return, save millions annually
 the interiQr, but give life to porSs 10
 cated upon what might now properl be termed the ''Dead sea-"
 Very truly yours,
 JOHN T. FLYNN.