The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-02-07

will fill the Hobbies with able men to argue
and work against the law or appropris-
ton. They will secure the hotels and they
will do more than that. They will bring
down to Washington some of the most
beautiful ladies you ever saw to aid them
in defeating the measure"
! When the Judge said that, every member
of the committee and members from the
house who were present bent forward in
rapt, eager attention and sighed to be
congressman with half a dozen or more
Texas deep water ports on hand. Judge
Clark, of Waco, who was present, blushed
and then looked as if he would like to be a
congressman.
Continuing, the Judge said that the men
sent to work on the coast simply did
nothing, and of the 100000 spent on
the Texas harbors nothing could be shown
for the outlay except little good per-
haps at Sabine Pass. "The man the de-
! partment now has at Galveston is
doing work, antagonizing every theory of
hydraulics and the science of engineering,
and his effort Is going to be failure. The
department at Washington send out plans
which are about like an old horse on a
treadmill, and the linen sent to execute
them carry them out and no good results
He alluded to the deep water scheme at
the mouth of the Brazos and said he was
perfectly familiar with the topography of
the country and the nature of the work to
be accomplished there, and "they cannot
make twenty-five feet of water and keep
it there for less than 100000. 1 believe
they can get twenty feet, but they
cannot keep it. The converging
waters from Oyster creek and st. Bernard
will prevent it. Their waters will destroy
the work and fill the channels. l do not
believe the mouth of the Brazos can be
made a safe permanent deep water har-
| Dor, but there is place where one can be
obtained, and it will be capable of de-
fense."
He alluded to the fact that England had
pushed her railways into India and was
now getting large quantities of grain and
cotton from that country, whereas, if deep
water was on the Texas coast, distanc es
would be so shortened that it would be
cheaper for her to come here,
and the Gulf of Mexico would
be the Mediterranean sea of the
new world. Speaking of the great
commercial and military power of Eng
land the judge said:
II visited England some time ago and
while going through Westminster Abbey
the guide pointed out to me the trophies
of war. There were flags of every nation
on earth captured in war by the armies
of Great Britain. The trophies were in
teresting to look at but in all the army of
flags from every nation 1 did not see the
Stars and Stripes. l asked the guide where
lis the Stars and Stripes the flag of the
United States? He bowed his head and
said
81 see you are an American, sir. The
Stars and Stripes are not here, and it is
the only flag in all the world that has
failed to bow and surrender to the Eng
lish armies"
Continuing, the judge said that the
United States had refused to bow to the
English military power, and should refuse
to bow to her commercial power. "Eng-
land should not be the commercial head
of the world. The climate, situation, re-
sources are all against it. The United
States should be and will be the head of the
commercial world, and deep water port
on the coast of Texas will hasten the day.
Such, a port will shorten distances and
consequently cheaper freights. He said
that a deep water port would increase
values in Texas $1,000,0o0,000, and lands
now worth $40 and SIS would be worth
500, $3.50, 5000 and $500 per acre, and
be as high as lands in New York or any
where else.
That Texas will have deep water is GER
tain. When great populations climb over
the Alleghanies and CROSS the Mississippi,
Texas may have deep water, but 1 don't
care to wait l might be able to wait for
the Alleghanies to be crossed, which will
probably be within some thirty years, but
1 want, and the people want deep water
now"
He said he had talked to the governor
about it and stated to him that with 1900
oonvicts and the $1,500,e0O then in the
state treasury harbor could be secured.
He advised him to scoop out basin thirty
feet deep and then cut channel out to
water forty or fifty feet deep. He said
without giving the name that
there was point on the coast where a
canal cut for about a mile would reach the
Gulf stream, mightier river than the Mis-
sissippi. He argued that the state should
cease to look to Washington for aid, but
go to work with her own engineers and
her own resources and secure a
port. This was true craftsmanship,
and if he was governor no would recon-
mend it and work for it even if he knew
the people would rise up and crush him.
But this they will not do. They want
deep water, and the people of Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska and other northern
states want it and they stand ready
to aid Texas. The judge then
produced letter from the governor of
Colorado and one from the governor of
New Mexico, saying they were one with
Texas in securing deep water port. The
judge said these states were willing and
ready to render financial aid for such pur-
poses. In graphic language he drew a
picture of the future when the govern
ment would control this whole continent
and all the outlying islands, and be the
great ruling commercial power of the
whole world.
He said that tax of only
one mill would secure deep water
port, and in powerful argument
he insisted that the state should take
the matter in hand and do it at once. He
was listened to with marked attention and
applauded when he concluded.
During his remarks the Judge desig-
mated no particular point on the coast as
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