The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-08-30
HOOVER TALKS TO
IOWA NEIGHB0RS
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the systematic undertaking Of this
modernization. Within few years
we will have completed the deep
ening of the Ohio up to Pittsburg,
the Missouri up to Kansas City,
Omaha, and beyond, the Mississippi
20 St. Paul and Minneapolis, the
Illinois to Chicago. We already
have experience with results, for
with only the main river from st.
Louis to New Orleans as yet work
ing properly, the rates for trans
portation of bulk agricultural pro-
ducts through that section is near
pre-war railway rates. We will
not have the advantage of full re-
suits until the entire Mississippi
and it's tributaries are in one con-
nected transportation system.
We have another great oppor-
tunity of relief in the building of
shipway from the great lakes to
the sea. Our engineers have rec
commended the st. Lawrence route
as the preferable outlet. The ad.
ministration has undertaken nego'
tiations with Canada upon the sub
ject. If these negotiations fail
we must consider alternative routes
In any event the completion OF
this great system of barge lines on
the rivers and connecting the lakes
from the lakes to the sea, will
make an effective transportation
system 10000 miles in length pen
etrating twenty midwest states. 1t
will connect these states with sea-
board at the gulf on one hand and
with the North Atlantic on the
other. And this means more than
the mere saving upon The actual
goods shipped over these routes.
| If part of our crops can move to
market at a seven - ten cent say
| ing per bushel, the buyers Compel
tive bidding for this PORTION OF
the crop will force upward the
price of the whole crop.
And this development concerns
not alone agriculture, but every
| Industry and business III the mid
west. The manufacturer and
merchant in this section is suffering
from a curtailment OF his dist1 ibu-
ton field; his business province
has shrunk. This development
should tend to increase nlanufac-
turing industry in the midwest and
thereby create larger diversity
of employment and greater local
market for agricultural products.
Nor does this development mean
the crippling Of our railways. The
annual increase in railways traffic
will give to them a far more and
complete offset to these diversions.
Moreover, everything that in
creases the prosperity of the coun-
try also helps the railways.
When we traverse the 1lemorieS
of those who have builded this
state and this nation we recall
these acts which are root ed IN the
soil of service. When we rchearse
our own memories we find that
none give us sue comfort and sat-
|isfaction as the re:3rl Of service
we have been able to render. I
w llOG uOliCNC-oOI PSoPAS ASoo
those finer qualities of rugged
character, self-reliance, or initia-
tive, nor have they lost the great
quality which they inbedded in
American character, the quality of
neighborly cooperation and mutual
service. 1t is in this quality that
our hopes must lie in the solution
Of our great problems.
And l must say again that the
solution of these problems has but
one purpose is the comfort
and welfare of the American fam
| lily and the American home. The
family is the unit of American life
and the home is the sanctuary of
moral inspiration and of Ameri-
can spirit. The-true conception of
America is not a country of no.
100000 people but a nation of 49,
100000 families living in 23,000,-
900 homes. T pledge my services to
these homes. :.