Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-05-22

development. This amount provides
for the sweeping of the channel clear
of all distractions from Lake Ontario
to Montreal, to a uniform depth of 25
feet, and for the construction of re-
stricted channel 33 miles long, 25 feet
deep, with seven locks and a drop of
225 feet. OF this 1882, 900. 900, the en-
gineers estimate navigation should
carry $152,000,000 and that water
power development should carry about
500, 100000. Our share of this $751;
100000, chargeable to navigation, is
s76,OO0,0OO.
The alternative plan proposed by
Congressman Dempsey and his friends
Of New York misnamed the all-Amer-
lean plan, in order to befog the issue
and confuse the American people, pro-
vides a 25-foot channel from Oswego
to the Hudson, a distance of 179 miles,
of which 159 is restricted canal chan
mel, with 81 locks and SO bridges, a
| lift of 1896 feet from Lake Ontario to
the top of the hill and drop
from the top of the hill in central
New York to tidewater, of 379 feet, or
total lift af 512.6 feet, at a cost,
estimated by the Army engineers, OF
$500, 900 900, to which must be added,
according to Congressman Dempsey,
similarly restricted channel from
Lake Ontario to Lake Erie, needlessly
duplicating the Welland canal. This
| Niagara section of the spurious all
American would cost $125,O0O,00O, ac-
cording to the Army engineers, max
| ing a total cost of such a canal from
the Hudson to Lake Erie, 1851 900, 900,
which, as / shall show later, does not
but only provides the first section of
such a waterway. But, even so, here
you have it.
$631 100000 and a ditch running
| across the hills of New York with a
lock or bridge every miles of the
way, and the cost of the bridges not
figured into the cost of the canal
more than $50 miles of canal and
cost of $631 100000 on the one hand,
against 33 miles of canal and 10
bridges and seven locks, and a navi-
cation cost chargeable to the United
States of $76,0OO,OOO, on the other
| hand.
Spurious all-American 1851 900, 900.
st. Lawrence route, a genuine all
American, belonging to the United
States and Canada, using the waters
that belong to them both, and the bill
of the United States-$76,00O,0 900.
The up hill and down dale New
York substitute route is admittedly
unequal to the load already moving
seaward, which it would be called upon
to carry, and in the face of these SIM
pie facts, the editorial proceeds:
Which would be the better bargain
for the American people?
The answer, it seems to me, is OBJ
vious. The one that would give the
better service, the one that would
would meet the needs of the present
and of the future, the one that would
cause the minimum of international
complications and bring about the
maximum. of international under
standing and goodwill, and this is the
st. Lawrence route.
The editorial in question goes on
to inquire:
! Why is a ship canal from the ocean
TO the Lakes desired?
and answers its own question:
| To enlarge the business. extend the
| commerce. and uphold the welfare of the
people of the United States.
That is true and it is my observa-
ton that truth furnishes an excel
lent foundation for a misstatemeHt of
fact, and the misstatement follows:
| Would that business
Says the editorial
would that business. commerce, and well
fare be served if the deep-sea traffic OF
| the world were TO be brought to the
door of 100000 Americans?
And again it answers its own state
ment:
1t would.
To this statement, Mr.. Chairman,
we $4,000, 200 marooned Americans of
the Middle West do not agree. And
| for the very obvious reason that we
/ oman DaS-aua fnr nnr