Wilmington daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-04
From the Republican.
Bayard and salisbury.

The Ga=ette says Messrs. Bayard and Sauls
bury have been gaining for our little State Al
enviable reputation in every part OF TINS grea
country. We should hke to know what thei
reputation has to do with procuring appropri
ations to improve the Delaware. or the giving
of work to men? Their reputation will moi
give food to the hungry nor water to the
thirsty. 1t is as useless in the hour OF dls
tress as the barren fig tree, and the attempt
10 beguile the working people with such twad
die is like adding insult to injury. When men
ask for bread the Gdsette would give them q
stone. 1t talks about building ships when
there is no way of procuring such work except
from private parties.
The Republican exhibits want that is as
tonishing to every business man.
Very few people in this country know what
an amount of shipbuilding is done in this
State in the counties of Kent and Sussex.
Those counties contain some Of the finest
timber for ship work that is to be had And
vessels are built more cheaply on the small
streams making into the Delaware from the
Peninsula than at almost any other place And
the work might be doubled and trebled.
Now, one speech i'll the Hall of the House of
Representatives setting forth the facts prop
erly and showing the capacity of our builders,
the staunch and durable quality of the YES
sels they send forth, and our resources FOR
procuring the most excellent timber in the
Rear vicinity of the ship yards would operate
as a great advertisement; and might bring
orders from hun ,Iels of private parties"
who wanted vessels lat never heard of the
yards in Delaware below Wilmington. The
consequence might be that we Lot only build
two vessels where we now build one; but our
superior builders might get higher prices, and
thus be enabled to make money and pay much
more for the timber and the getting of il ont
and working it up into ships.
A man with ability on the floor Of the House
can command influence when the appropria-
ton bills are up for consideration;hc can check
their passage until he makes the House under
stand and see the reasonableness Of the ur-
gent demands he makes for appropriations and
when this is done he gains his point. Were
such man present the managers of such bills
could not run a pen through recommenda-
tons, and say, ooh, Delaware has no one here
competent to raise an argument or make AN
issue" No, rather than have the partiality |
CT such bills fairly shown up, they would yield |
TO our Just demands for appropriations for our |
harbor and for putting all other points on the |
Delaware in proper condition. That is what |
an able man could effect. But who expects to !
hear Of our little Diamond State, or her ship |
yards attracting any attention in the House |
now. The speeches made in that body are |
telegraphed all over the land; but through her |
Representative the. people of Delaware are
not heard. She has no reputation in the
House, when she ought to stand higher than
other States because of the fact that she stands
alone Her Representative ought to be a light
as brilliant "a her Diamond ipe+ao1 e tl;-
" at have WEI Well,a handsome figure-hea1
m ght do as well For then il could be set
upon PEDESTAL, with its right hand pointing
10 an inscription reciting the wants IF Della.
ware and her people