As an incident to creating the deep waterways down the Mississippi, the Government should build along its whole lower length levees which taken together with the control of the headwaters, will at once and forever put a complete stop to all threat of floods in the immensely fertile Delta region.
Roosevelt calls for the construction of levees along the Mississippi to prevent flooding, emphasizing the importance of flood control for agriculture in the Delta region.
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