Ijjules and Horses
I We Are Selling Them Cheap
I Carload of Missouri Mules, good
I stock and at prices %at are right.
I We also have a fine lot of horses
I and mares—fifty animals in all
■ Also have a young gray jack, 5 years old and i*
I Tennessee bred for sale. ~ s
I ; Look at my stock before buying. J 1
EARL SEATON
I 116-11S aWlnut Street NEWPORT, ARK.
C. R. GRAY
PHYSICIAN
AND SURGEON
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1 he Nation's Duty.
t 11 is the duty of this nation t(
take hold of the Mississippi riv
er, and its tributaries, in a com
prehensive and practical mannei
ar.d protect the people and theii
P5 perty from the enormous do
st! action caused by recurrent
overflows. Millions of dollars
worth of property are being
wa ted every year, and condi
tions are growing worse. It has
come to such a pass that the na
tion must recognize its duty and
ameliorate the sufferings which
people are called upon to endure
and prevent waste and destruc
tion.
About the first thing to do will
be to devise a plan which will
have for its purpose the benefit
of the country and of the pco
fit of a few interested people
pit. and not as now. for the bene
v/ho enjoy : b< and. revenues
and tolls taken from the frag
mentary pate Tag that is being
done in the of ineffectual
■ levee building. The levee dis
| tricts in the various stretches
iare merely ne.-ts for politicians
i in which to hatch out their
| schemes of self aggrandizement,
: and these should be destroyed,
and the entire question taken
over by the government, at least
insofar as control is concerned.
This form of action was urged
by Mr. Isham Randolph before
the National Drainage Congress
in St. Louis on Thursday. He
pointed out very clearly that it
was a man’s job, and that no
man but Uncle Sam is big
enough to do it
Ex-President Roosevelt has
long advocated an enlarged and
a comprehensive method of han
dling this matter. He looks at
it from the viewpoint of a states
man, and points out the defects
and shortcomings of the sys
tems now in vogue. The whole
valley is interested.
Mr. Roosevelt points out that
levees built on the lower Missis
sippi, no matter how secure and
serviceable they might be, will
not prevent great and destruc
tive floods in the Ohio and Mis
souri rivers. These also must
be looked after. Moreover, these
waters, instead of being a men
ace to be feared, should be har
nessed and made subservient to
the people in the various valleys.
To do this they can be stored at
may places, and held until they
are wanted to moisten and fruc
tify the land and prevent the
destruction of crops by droughts
as in the past. Mr. Roosevelt,
in a letter to Mr. J. M. Parker,
among other things, said:
“The treating of the Mississip
pi watershed as a unit from the
mouths of streams to their sour
ces will mean the co-ordination
of the work of the federal engin
eers of the reclamation service,
of the forestry bureau, of the
division of soils, of the geodet
ic survey of the Mississippi riv
er commission, and of the na
tional effort to turn the floods
into power, arid regions into gar
dens and marshes into farms.
All this will be done by one act
of the federal congress. We can
lift the rivers out of politics by
enacting a single adequate meas
ure, establishing a policy and
i providing continuing funds, ex
actily as was done in the case of
the Panama canal.”
Senator Frances G. Newlands,
of Nevada, who is a native of
Mississippi, and who has made a
special study of the question
from every point of view, is
again pressing his measure and
drawing about him additional
support. His measure asks for
. a fund of $50,000,000 annually
for ten years, for the regulation
and control of the flow of nd\ i
gable rivers and for flood pre
vention and protection, and for
the beneficial use of flood waters.
Briefly summarized, Senator
Newland’s bill would provide for
the deepening of streams, the
building of levees, the revjtmer t
of caving banks and the im
1 pounding of flood waters, the
checking of flood formation
through rob lustration, the o
pening and control of excess
flood outlets, even the double
channeling of the excess flood
flow of the Mississippi river from
Cairo to the gulf, if necessary.
This latter idea has been ex
ploited in the News-Scimitar,
which printed a map some time
| ago that was prepared by the
Lumber World Review, and
: which showed that with the aid
j of a few canals the St. Francis
river. Bayou Bartholomew. Black
| river and the Atchafalva river
j may lie connected up in such a
1 ,
j way a> to greatly relieve the
; Mississippi river at Cairo when
i the great floods are moving out
n| the Ohio river. I r ommoii
! sense solution of the problem L
to hold back as much water as
possible in. the upper reaches,
ai d to get rid of the water that
c imes down upon us as fast a
j possible. Making the river
; straight will accelerate the
flow of the current and bv open
ing up the Atchafalva it will
shorten the distance to tide wat
er by 200 miles.
The Newiands bill antagoniz
es nothing Out the political co
! teries that are now deriving ben
efits from the present patch
work plan. It includes the plans
of the levees-and-nothing-else
advocates, Supplements and adds
enormously to them. It takes
into consideration the flood wat
ers, and the protection not only
of navigation but the riparian
lands. Of course, those who are
enjoying comfortable positions
will object, as they always have
to any change being made. Gov
I ernment engineers of standing
were bitterly opposed to the jet
ties, and did all they could to
convince the country that the
Eads idea was impracticable.
They opposed the Panama can
al, until one of their number was
selected who had the courage
and independence to take the
matter up and put it through.
Government engineers said that
the Chagres and the Nile rivers
could not be controlled, and that
the only way to control the Mis
sissippi river is by building mud
banks on either side of it, and to
rebuild them hgher and strong
er every time they break. They
were false prophets then and
they are false prophets now.
They can only see a part of the
whole, but when Uncle Sam
■ takes hold of the matter the
petty politicians and the pur
blind scientists, who can see
only a pare, will be brushed aside
and place given to those of more
extended perspective.—Memphis
News-Scimitar.
Dr. Miles’ Laxative Tablets do a dis
agreeable duty In an agreeable way.
*»T them next time rAHv«rttnom«»r»t 1
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MONDAY, APRIL 141|
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