Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-11-05

and It IS their interests we are TO pro
lect. The rapidly increasing business
n tbisrepublio viii furnish ample occu
pntion Tor both, and at fair protita to the
railroads at their actual cost. Beyond
that the people should have no concern
Statistics show that the commerce en-
tering and leaving the city Of New Or
leans upon the Mississippi river exceeds
in value 100000 that by rail, yet the
property OF the railways entering that
city has not at all diminished.
1t is not alone the Mississippi and tie
tributaries that needs the fostering care
Of the government, there are other ca
mails needed 10 connect important waters,
The Wisconsin, Fox and Henuepn ca
nals to connect the Mississippi and the
lakes would work wonders u commerce,
and 80 would canal connecting the
James river with the Ohio on one side
and the Tennessee on the other. On the
3ulf OF Mexico We have very few cRpa.
;ious harbors; the most important be-
sides New Orleans are those OF Calves.
ton, Mobile and Pensacola, With the
exception Of New Orleans, Mobile Is the
only Gulf OF Mexico harbor having
great river system as feeder The bay
OF Mobile is capaciuus enough 10 float
the navies Of the world.
The tonnage Of American and foreign
vessels cleared from the various sea
ports OF the United States for foreign
countries in 1891 WIS: Portland, Ne,
$3.50; Boston, l,22G,sl7; New York
G,Ols,fsi; Philadelphia, 90 ,9G3; Bnlti-
more, 9Ol,9jI; Charleston, S. C., lj393l.
savannah, 26553l; Mobile, 12l ,075; NeW
Orleans, sSl,15l; Galveston, 2J2,15l; San
Francisco, ,G65 263.
The harbora on the Gulf Of Mexico
ehOuld be improved. The government
mas appropriated for the haroor az MO.
bile about one aud half million dollars,
which has secured to that city chan
mel 200 feet IN width and seventeen in
depth, NIt that is not sufficient for the
demands Of her commerce. That chan
mel should be deepened to twenty SIX
feet. The hBrbor az Galveston confirms
4lj square miles Of water surface. The
land-locked harbor proper 1850 ncres
OF water from twenty-four TO forty-four
feet in depth. The Galveston harbor
has ,3Ol &c es OF water twenty-ionr feet
deep. Sabine harbor has 100 acres
twontytour feet deep. Galveston har-
Dor has i63 acres thirty feet deep. Ss-
blne eiXty-three acres and Aransas nino-
teen acres.
These internal improvements are not
aqueetlon OF politics, but one Of bust
ness. The government has given New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and all the
Eastern ports liberal appropriations,
and there 70 no reason why the West
and South should not receive the same
consideration.
u 10 southwark that the Mississippi
valley and mountain States should look
Tor new fields and factories With grain
laid down NJ New Orleans, Mobile and
other Southern ports 10y the cheapest OF
carriers, ard at o price below that Of
Eastern ports, there is nothing in the
way OF swelling our outgoing cargoes to
enormous proportions. The white
wings Of commerce will bear our prod
lcts % the West Indies, Venezuela and
.he Columbian States, TO Panama and
central America, 10 the coast Of Mexico
ana through the Nicaragua canal which,
n the near future, will make the United
states The gateway Of the worlds com
nerce. ny shortening the transpOrta-
ion lnleage, and consequently leseening
ne freight charges, il will give great
NlmulL5 TO the opening OF new and ro-
nuneraJive markets Tor tks products Of
both farms aud factories OF the great
West,
The image OF one of our great
itntesmen In park in this city stands
NTH hnger pointing Westward over the
'hst plains rs II repeating his favorite
phrase: There is lndia.r The concsp-
ion Of Benton was grand and it's fruit
vas our Pacific railroad that stretches
yoward India, but these roads with theii
enormous burdens OF debt, compellinp
The people TO pay tribute TO an unjust
initiation OF stocks and bonds, are not an
adequate outlet to India. The route
which Columbus sought 10 the true
route. The statue OF the old statesrnon
should be turned half round and the
hngor should point southWard to the
Gult and Nicaragua canal. The ports
on the Gult shore are new India, whose
commerce. "outshines the wealth OF
0rmus or OF Ind, or whore the gorgeous
EAST ohowers on her kings bafbario
pearls and gold"
The porte Of Savannah. Charleston.
Pensacola. Mobile. New Orleans cal
iestun and the Nicaragua canal are the
ioofways to the teemug population OF
Asia. There Is the East. There Is In.
iia.
The concentrated wealth OF the world
10 determined to fasten upon us a single
gold standard. The gold power Of Eu.
rope dominates the money power of this
country, The national bankers, under
y threat OF withdrawal of credit, compel |
the business organizations TO petition |
Congress TO repeal the silver purchase |
Jaw, thereby practically destroying the |
Nhte metal, consequently the edit and |
business OF the United States. Elstern
merchants compel their Western cus.
.1mers to petition Congress- to the same |
'hect. The subsidized metropolitan |
press OF the country sounds the tam.
)ourlne at the bidding of its masters.
md thus the bankers Of London, PARIS
'nd Berlin create olgmor in tbia
COUNTRY, aided by the influence of gold
N the executive and law-making powers
q tne land, to compel the producers Of
nus great nation to pny tribute to the
'wners OF wealth. II their action il suc.
esstul II will practically reduce this
COUNTRY to a dependency OF ENGLAND. A
lgority OF our people TO paupers and the
nlted States to a third Gloss nation.
Ihere ls money famine in this coua.
~ not one fifth enough money 10
Iagsact It's business. The greatest
rlsla IN the history of the republic con
lSonta us. Laws have been enacied
'nich transfer the wealth OF the pro.
.uclng classes TO few plutoerats
wenty thousand people in New York
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