The peofle know well that the improvement of their water courses upon which the boat. the vessel. large or small. of any one of our citizens may float. .carrying off to market the produce of others of our citizens. is the great restraint today and in all time will be upon such monopolies as can .grind down the farmer and compel the disapproval of the agriculturist all over the land. If I had time and could briefly review the history of our internalimprovement system in improving rivers and harbors. I could show you the waste places which have become settled and alive with industry and with immigration and with growth. If I had time I could show that _just in proportion as these improvements have spread out through the States andL up our rivers and along our lakes and along our coast the country has prosperedprospered beyond all example. infinitely beyond the meager appropriations which we have been compelled to dole out from year to year because we did not desire to make an appropriation bill for this purpose too great in any one year. Had I the time to explain even briefly these things I should give the whole history of the growth and the expansion and spreading out of our country from the East to the West. its harbors. itscities. its villages. its waste places made fruitful.
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