San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-17
NEW ORLEANS JEALOUSY.

idealists" the New Orleans Daily
Item of the 14th inst. falls very far
below the dignity of metropolitan
journal in dealing with the question
at issue. The Item first considers the
deep water port at Tampa and assert
ing that the scheme is only that OLA
parcel of town lot spectators, turns
its attent ton to the recent CONVEX ton
at Topeka with the placid affirmation
that:
"The notoriety given to a new deep
water project by the Tampa prospect
ors has excited some parties in Kan
sas and Colorado to reintroduce their
virtually rejected motion to put the
government to q good many million
dollars of expense to scoop out tenn.
porary harbor on the sandy coast of
Texas. Denver recently held a con-
ventiOn to chat over the subject, and
Topeka soon after followed on the
same side.n
The Item is not big enough to be-
little movement which has enlisted
the efforts of such vast C constituency
as was represented at Topeka, a con-
stituency representing the very best
elements and the commercial forces
of the great northwest, west and
southwest.
The Item may charge, as it does,
that nothing but job of some kind
is intended, but it will take more
than the mere assertion of local rep
resentative of the trade of New Or
leans to convince the country that the
great states lying west of the Missls-
sippi met in convention, with such
men as Thayer of Nebraska, Evans of
Colorado, Humphrey of Kansas, F ram
els of Missouri, and were presided
over by Senator Plumb, in the inter-
ests of clique of town lot spectators.
New Orleans has lost her grip, and
while there is no doubt that she lies
much nearer to the great wheat fields
of Kansas than the ports of the At
Iantic seabOard, it is also true that the
grain trade of the great west
does not seek market through
the mouth of the Mississippi river.
Whatever causes may have cOnspired
to rob New Orleans Of her position as
the great entry port of the south is
not the province of this article to con-
slider. New Orleans has fallen into
decadence and is not enquired after
by the northwest in its efforts to find
a southern gulf port. 1t is also true
that this question of deep weter on
the gulf coast of Texas has attra cted
ever growing attention and now has
come to the front to stay. tits not
local question agitated by spectators.
1t is demand for the instant accOmp-
lishment of that which congress has
been so dilatorily endeavoring to d
for score of years past. In fact the
only point on the coast of specu-
latlve character, at which a
deep water harbor is sought,
is that sole one which does not as
government aid, but by the judicious
expenditure OF private funds is rapid
ly creating a deep harbor in which
the commerce of vast territory shall
load and unload. At another point,
partially through government aid
partially through private funds, a
marked improvement in the water
depth has been secured and scores OF
vessels are seeking that harbor for
lumber shipments. 1t will do as q
matter of rhetoric for New Orleans to
assert that she lies as near Kansas
and Colorado as do the west end ports
of the Mexican gulf, but it does not
so appear to the shipper of merchan-
disc who is in earnest in looking for a
deep water outlet and in looking
for it many miles west OF
the mouth of the Mississippi.
New Orleans has not succeeded in
building up an import trade, and she
finds her export trade threatened.
1t is therefore natural that she should
prophecy most adversely concerning
schemes for "scooping out Temporal
ry harbor on the sandy coast OF Tex
as.' The Item is reminded that the
engineer who alone made possible
the opening through the delta of the
Mississippi river to the wharves of
New Orleans, is authority for believ-
ing that permanent deep water har-
bOrs can be constructed and main
tanned on the gulf ceast of Texas.
The attempt to belittle the movement
by calling it names, or charging it u
the movements of town lot specula-
tors will not avail. 1t is written in
the books that a deep water harbor
Is to be on the gulf coast of Texas tho
Item to the contrary notwiths tan
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