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

year. Extends radius of opera
$50 miles to Observation-Disclosures
materially the usefulness of tt
A treaty now pending between
Canada and the United States
touches a matter that concerns
every American, and in a special
way every American distant from
the ocean.
This treaty provides that the
United States shall proceed with
the building of what is known as
the ::Speedway"-the last link on a
gigantic chain of improvements
that will make the Great Lakes
and their commerce a part of the
Atlantic Ocean, with all that i'm
plies by way of lessened costs of
transportation to and from the
markets of the world wherever they
are, now reached and reached only
by crossing the ocean.
A glance at the accompanying
map will give you picture of the
story of accomplishment.
Each Nation Has Job
Remember that for purposes of
Improvement and upkeep the Great
Lakes section of the st. Lawrence
Waterford belongs to the United
States-that it is our job to pro-
vide navigation from Chicago and
Duluth On the west to the end of
the international boundary, so miles
below Ogdensburg, excepting:
The Weeland Canal, wholly with
in Canada, by-passing the Falls at
Niagara, belongs to Canada. This,
and one lock at the $780," are
Canadian-the balance Of the Great
Lakes chain is ours to keep open
and up-to-date as navigation road.
Tracing your finger eastward
along the st. Lawrence after 1t
leaves Lake Ontario you come to
Montreal-one of the greatest sea-
ports in the world. From Montreal
on to the open sea 1t is Canada's
job to keep that section of the sea-
road open and up-to-date. The two
nations have done their own par
ticular jobs well.
Done by the United States
The United States found fhe
Great Lakes huge ponds of water
separated by shadows and shoals
and bars.
We have cut the bars-we have
blasted the shoals-we have built
huge locks at the "Soo'-we have
buoyed and beaconed the coasts and
the harbors-we have created an
ocean, reaching for a thousand
miles and more through the heart
Of the North American continent,
over which moves commerce
greater than that which enters and
leaves the Atlantic Coast harbors.
A commerce greater than that of
the Gulf Coast and the Pacific COM
bined-a sea-going commerce touch
ing one hundred harbors, among
which stand some ten or twelve out
of the twenty-five greatest seaports
in the United States.
Our minds picture Duluth-Supe-
rior, second greatest port in the
United States, and among the lead
ers Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit,
Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo;
and on the Canadian side Fort Will
liams-Port Arthur, Goderich, Toron-
to, not to mention the scores of
lesser but great harbors into and
out of which moves an ocean-size
commerce made possible by our en-
gineers and by our determination
to have the best and cheapest high
way in the world-an ocean within
our continent, over which ocean
sized ships plough their way.
This inner ocean has been the
major trunk line of our westward
expanding national commerce since
the days Of the Civil War. Before
that it carried the pioneers. Now
its commerce is demanding free
dom of movement into and out of
the larger seas beyond.
Done by Canada
Canada has built, within recent
years, and wholly at her own OK
pense-wholly without cost to US
either in building or in tolls-the
weeland Canal that extends the
Ocean eastward in
to and through Lake Ontario. The
cost to Canada for this great ocean
shipway alone exceeds all the ex-
penditures made up to date by the
United States in the connecting
channels of the Great Lakes.
Below Montreal, Canada has re-
moved all navigation obstacles, has
buoyed and beaconed the great riv-
er out to the sea-has made 1t one
of the worlds greatest arteries of |
commerce. In doing this, Canada |
again has expended a sum COM
parable to, If not exceeding, our
own expenditures to date in the !!
Great Lakes connecting channais.
What was exclusively ours to do
we have done, or are doing. or have
to do.
What was exclusively Canada's ia
do she has done, or is doing, or has |
agreed to do.
This includes, on our part, the.l
Of another great seaship
lock at the $780," and the compile.
ton of the deepening of the con-
channels Of the upper lakes.
For Canada there remains the
Of q nine-mile canal
around the Lachine Rapids at Mon
treal, a job not yet started, and
the completion Of fifteen-mile by
pass of the Sculanges Rapids above
now more than half way
1nished.
These things accomplished, the
treat merchant fleets OF Atlantic