The daily gazette., 1882-02-11
ss. .azsrs rrse11. TI1Taer y Proprietor
SATURDAY FEBaUARx IA. Issa.

IMM mHIP CANALs--We DelleVe no
better dispoaition could be made Of
the surplus money that is collected
unnecessarily from our people to sus-
taia the monopolists and great rail
roads that are coming money through
the assistance Of the government and
the aid OF the high and prohibition
tariff laws, than TO appropriate a part
Of it to the building Of the proposed
ship canal through the Peninsula from
the waters Of the Chesapeake Bay to
the Breakwater. It would be grand
extension Of that great national Protec-
tion to the commerce Of the country
behind winch thousands Of ships Of
all nations seeking the ports OF our
greas cities find protection from the
tsmpests Of the ocean. What more
splendid termination could be found
to tempestuous voyage than the
refuge which the Breakwater would
afford after . great canal had been
built to connect the ocean with the
peaesgul and gentle waters Of the
Chesapeake Bay at the mouth Of the
Eassafras river
Wilmington is not more interested
in this great inland canal than Phila-
delphia, perhaps, yet Wilmingtonians
would be glad to have such work
completed. The natural result of
such work would be the enlarge
ment Of the present canal bet tween the
Chesapeake and the Delaware from
Chesapeake City to Delaware City to
accommodate the ships that would
pass up from the proposed great ShiI
Canal. The great ships would proba
bly, want to discharge a part OF thei
cargoes at Baltimore and then process
to Philadelphia to discharge aAethe
part. From Philadelphia there is
fine inland canal to New York tina
might be enlarged were the railroad
AUuMO uOy buAhOAohb w @OSOhAHAS0NS
the increasing traffic, which will n
doubt be the case since there are NOV
regular lines of steamers to carr
freight round Cape May and by Ocea
outside to New York. 1t is we'll suG
gested by q Baltimore contemporar
that the completion Of this gres
canal TO the Breakwater would prov
the beginning of general system
inland canals by way of the Sound
from the Potomac to the great an
growing cities of the South, maxim
the passage always safe and pleasan
saving many lives and millions
dollars worth Of property annual
from destruction by wreck and fl
insurance. What better way could
portion Of the money extracted fro
the pockets Of aRriculturists to put
the pockets of the New Englal
monOpolists be expended than in
great work like the Ship Canal to t
Breakwater to enable the agricultu
lists Of the West to send to Euro
their surplus grain and farm produ'
petroleum, butter, cheese, pork a
beef, through which our export ira
is enlarged, and the cash recsiv
that enables the people to pay the e
Cessive prices caused by the high pl
tective tariff duties on nearly all th
wear and use /; and that gives 81
ployment to railroads, requiring m
lions Of men to build, run and rep
them, and other millions TO build o.
and handle their shipmentsa a.
much better such an expenditure th
the wasting of the peoples substar
on the Ingalls, swindle to keep up
cermorants that subsist as ella
agents and pension agents in all pa
of the country? Let the people {
clare they will vote for no man Il
votes for the continuance Of Inga
swindle and the scandalous robbi
of the people will be stopped.
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