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This condition is the direct result of the absence of any comprehensive and far-seeing plan of waterway improvement, Obviously we can not continue thus to expend the revenues of the Government without return.
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Roosevelt critiques the lack of a comprehensive plan for waterway improvement, warning against wasting government resources.
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