Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-16

gOgoes became q means Of exploiting
the foundation Of E. new industry.
Demand and supply have, however,
but again combined to give the lie to
preposterous political claims, and the
very men who alleged that they could
not keep their establishments going
without q prohibitlve duty are cheer
fully investing their money in the
hope of meeting domestic demand
with profit TO themselves under a tariff
one-half less than that for which they
so loudly clamored bat a short time
ago.
1t is the same in other industries,
and when the present dying agitation
has entirely disappeared it will be a COM
mon occurrence for the newspapers to
chronicle engagements Of all kinds Of
plants, the building Of new mills and
the resumption Of Industry In general,
70 meet demand In a healthy business
way, and not in the hope Of preying
upon the consumer through the ne
dium of a tax upon his necessaries.
c. AND D. AND d. AND r. CANALS.
The Trades League, Of Philadelphia,
has taken action which will be Of inter
est TO Southern lumbermen. 1t is to
revive traffic through the Chesapeake
and Delaware and the Delaware and
Raritan canals. The Philadelphia
Times says:
Railway competition and railway control
by lease or purchase OF the old fashioned
inland canals have practically displaced
these artificial waterways as channels OF
inland commerce. the one conspicuous ex-
ception 10 this rule being the Erie canal,
which connects the great lakes with the
Hudson river. There are few canals,
however, which have not been abandoned
two Of whiCh-the Chesapeake and Della
wara and the Delaware and Raritan-have
been in the past ami are still In small
way tributary 20 the commerce OF PhlIa-
delphia.
AS our contemporary points ont the
exhaustion OF the forests of the North
and West has transferred a great lum-
Der interest TO the pine regions and
the hardwood regions of the South.
Virginia white oak railway ties and the
matchlsss building pine Of the Carolinas
are carried to New York and other
Easter ports by sailing vessels which
can enter the tidal rivers Of those sec
uons. The railways cannot, If they
would, compete with this method of
transportation, and as a matter of TACT,
do not attempt to do so. But there are
a good many streams and inlets of this
southern timber section in which large
sailing vessels cannot penetrate and
which can be reached by barges towed
by small tugs. These barges, says the
Times, once loaded with lumber can be
brought to Philadelphia through the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and
reach Trenton, New Brunswick, New
ark aud even Jersey City, New York
and Brooklyn through the Delaware
aud Raritan Canal
OF the Philadelphia Trade Leagues
plan 70 revive the traffic OF these water
ways the Times says:
10 should be accorded the hearty coop
Grafton OF al. parties in interest No rail-
way will lose pound Of freight, the canals
viii be given some profitable business and
philadelphia can recover some OF its form
er Importance as a lumber distributing
port, which 10 has lost by the exhaustion
of the lumber supply of the Delaware and
and SusOuehana Valleys. 10 is by udljz-
ing all poss oilites within reach that the
business of city is Increased or even re-
tanned ia these days Of sharp competition,
and the tendency Of the lumber trade 10
the South seems 20 furnish the OppOrtuni-
ty TO utilize the old canals again and con-
tribute to the commerce Of Philadelphia ia
the bargain.
Philadelphia is slow but she knows
good thing when she sees it, aud when
she does she usually takes hold Of it
with a strong grip.