Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-07

India, foretoId the necessity now ope
rative for the enlargement OF ships
and therefore of his canal. Europe a.
sents, and European statesmen and
/ capitalists, unlike those of the United
\ States, would remedy, at once, oh.
structions to the development OF an in
4 terDational and iiSercontinental com
mcrce. and engineering genius IS em
3 ployed In ascertaining whether the
Z Suez Canal may be more cheaply en-.
/ larged and deepened or whether il
( must be duplicated.
I TIE gUEZ CANAL 10 III DUPLICATED.
I DeLcsseps was pronounced u dream
I er and enthusiast, or, as vulgar people
( term IL. "crapg," when he said,
I while planning and again when cary
/ ing Out the Suez Canal. that he would
I soon be compelled to make another
] parallel with IL. The necessity for the
! enlargement of the Oriental route of
commerce Is already confessed, and
engineers have only 10 determine, By
I careful surveys, whether il will be
wiser to excayatc n deeper and broad
er parallel conduit for the waters of
the Mediterranean and Red
Seas or enlarge and deepen this
now incapable of accomnoda-
ting the growing number and
tonnage Of vessels plying between
Europe and Asia 1t is believed,
since the draft OF the worlds CONNER
cial marine, like it's war ships is con-
stituted of vessels whose tonnage grows
steadily greater, and since the greatest
ships cannot pass through the canal of
to-day, that another, broader and
deeper, will be dug parallel with the
first. There il no want of money 60
be invested in this scheme. Suez Ga
nal stock Is, by all odds, the best that
is bought and sold by European bulls
and bears.
INtigfLIrY or COMMISSIONS.
Here, on the contrary, statecraft
stands amazed and helpIessly paralvz-
ed in the presence of n sea of unre-
strained floods desolating states and
beggaring an imperial domain. Conn
mission after commission ot inexpert
experts and congressman are insti-
tuted TO sail down the Mississippi, ae
if they could learn aught OF mon
stious volume of facts and mysteries bv
inspecting its cover and inscrip-
tons on its back. They never
read more than the title page
and preface as written by those
who have discovered do ubtful loc.,
and personal security in levees. They
never reflect That while native SELFISH
ness would have dykes constructed for
local security, each individual con-
fesses when sleeping behind frail and
baseless earthern walls, constantly UNI
dermined and swept away by resist
less floods, that there isanother incent- /
i've quite as strong for this advocacy of |
plans of lcvee builders discovered i'm /
this local and endless expenditure of /
vast sums In the perfection Of tasks /
forever reproducing themselves and I
forever demanding "A greater wasteful- !
ness Of treasure.
HOW TO EMPTY a BARREL.
Everybody contesses, in the pres |
ence OF the sea of waters now over
spreading the valley of the Missis-
sippi, that no earthen walls can hedge I
IL in and yet no sooner do floods sub I
side than the stupid task is reinaugur- |
ated. And what is more amazing, |
these dyke-building philosophers,
when told that outlets into the sea !
must be made, would dip the water |
out from the overlooking hogshead in |
stead of boring a hole in the bottom !
that ii may empty itself. Instead OF I
unplugging the Mississippi and suffer
ing IL to discharge itself into Lake |
Borgne, Mr.. Carlisle insists that we |
must meet the floods at Cairo,
and there begin the pro-
cess of diversion. He never
though born in Kentucky, emptied a
barrel from the bung-hole. II there !
were any receptacle for the floods, ex-
cept the Gulf of Mexico, Mr.. Carlisles
would be sound. If water
IN the river were not an unit and |
stood still ut Cairo when its level is re- |
luced twelve feet ut Lake Borgne,
then Mr.. Carlisle's reasoning would !
be well founded. If he would say that |
The reduction of the rivers height /
Twelve feet at New Orleans, and the
same lessening of its height along its
whole course would not prevent over
lows, and that, therefore, other out
lets must be provided and tributaries
of the Mississippi diverted, then his |
theories would be universally accepted. |
THE NILE AND THE MIssIssfprI.
but one great end Is attained when !
the grooming flood now descending
the valley ut last tells mankind that
earthern walls mile apart and four
hundred feet high would not contain
the deluge now forty miles wide and
ten feet deep, and sweeping over the |
country from Cairo to the Baize. We
must look to Egypt of old and to
Egypt of To-day for lessons in meas |
ures OF commercial statesmanship and |
in those of hydrodynamical philo. !
sophy;, Instead of jetties |