Ultimate Effect of Deep Water Between the Great Lakes and the Sea on Domestic Shipbuilding (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...When some such program shall come to pass Illinois will receive the recognition to which she is entitled by reason of her potential position. Meantime it may be worth while to consider whether the State of Illinois should not, through some appropriate agency, undertake the development of the route through the State, receiving from the United States such subsidy as it may choose to give. There may be hidden wisdom in such self-reliance as has marked the policy of the state of New York, and it may be that the example and influence of two such states will be sufficient to lead the Federal Government into a National waterway policy. The Future of Rail and Water Transportation in the United States. It is a great pleasure to be here today and I am glad of the opportunity to give you my views on a subject in which we are all deeply interested--The Future of Rail and Water Transportation in the United States. I am no recent convert to the Deep Waterway Cause. I have believed in it and favored it from the first. When I had the pleasure of addressing the Chicago Commercial Club nearly two years ago, I urged that the enterprise be given greater attention because of the changing conditions, due to the construction of the Panama Canal. The widening and deepening of the waterway built by nature between the Lakes and the Gulf has long since ceased to be a local or sectional question. It has become a matter of national, and in fact international, importance on account of the effect which promises to have on our commerce with other countries, /'is therefore entitled to the active support of every patriotic American. No't satisfied with being the granary of the world, the United States has recently undertaken to beco'me its workshop....