The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-12-17

known. The costs have been long
and fully considered. They will tx-
coed by little. if any, the building
costs of the Weeland. They will
impose upon the people Of the Un...-
ed States an ultimate tax burden,
which, so the st. Lawrence Com
mission Of the United States rs
sures US, VIII bring return benefits
of more than one hundred million
dollars a year.
Brings Markets Closer
The completion of the seaway =
final link in the union of the Great
Lakes with the oceans that wash
the shores of all the continents :
will move the interior Of North
America closer to the ultimate con-
Stunning markets of the world. We
no longer measure distance to or
from market by miles. We apply
the measuring-stick of dollars per
ton. We think in terms of pro apt
ness Of delivery. We mention ser
vice.
BY all these standards the seaway
will move the continents closer to-
gether, and the effects upon agricul-
ture, upon manufacturing, upon
mining, upon wholesale and retail
trade, must and will be similar 20
those which follow the building of
f1rst-class highway between tIsa
or more industrious, wealth-produc-
ing and goods-demanding communi-
ties. It will promote business--it
will reveal and develop new sources
Of wealth-it will set flowing broad
er and deeper streams Of COM
merce, and of friendship, and Of in
ternational good will.
For more than a generation the
seaway has been q necessity. For
more than decade the interior of
the continent has been alive to that
necessity, and has been demanding
that the two nations form the
agreement under which, and under
which only, 1t can be built. During
all that time, in the other great
sections Of the master-highway be-
tween the continents, work essen
tial to the seaway itself has been
going forward. That work now
nears completion, and the seaway
link alone remains to be undertak-
en-, to be completed.
In the program of things still to
be accomplished, the digging of the
foundations, the building of the
dams, the impounding of the wat
ers, the sailing out and in of the
ships Of the world, stand in second
airy place to the task now before
us, which is to secure Senate rati-
fication of the agreement between
the two peoples, and to get from the
Congress the necessary enabling
legislation under which we may go
forward with the actual construc-
tien. With all possible speed, the
great task can be accomplished in
1896.
Today we have the treaty before
merely before the state, but
before us-for final action. It comes
in answer to our cry for lessened
economic handicaps for enlarged
world markets, for closer world con-
facts. It Is cur agreement, made IN
answer to our own need.
How You Can Help
Write your Senator to get back
of its ratification, and with all pos
sible speed. Write your Congress-
men to see to it that nothing, how
ever laudable, shall be permitted to
delay the necessary enabling legts-
lation under which the contracts
may be let and the inland ocean of
the Great Lakes may become en-
arm Of the seas Of the entire world.
Delays are dangerous, and your
word of insistence to your Senator's,
to your Congressman, If spoken to-
dsy, will be spoken in good season.
Write your Senators, write your
Congressman to go forward with
the seaway.