Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-10-19
nEep WATER MOVEMENT.

Western states conference dt toPoh without better understanding Of tn change that is to come to the trade char pe,s of the world within the next fe' years and a realization of the fact tha d.ep water on the Texas coast and tn building of the Nicaragua canal are tn influences that will bring about thi change.
 The Nicaragua canal will be built There is no doubt of this, though hoE it will be built is still an open question The Topeka conference expressed tn opinions of all true Americans when resolved in favor of it being built witl American money aud remaining for al time under the American flag. The ID fiaences of railroad Hobbies snd the fear of & few time serving politicians ma! hinder its construction, but it will o' built and the Express believes that Il will be an American institution. Il would be a profitable investment fol public or private funds, and as such ap' peals to all.
 That we are to about to secure deep water on the Texas coast is self evl- dent proposition. It may be said .nas we are about to secure deep waters, Tor there Is every reason to believe that the next five years will witness the compile tion of three or four hsrbors. The more the better, for the distant rumbiings of the commerce that will In time come this way in ominous of a great move vement, one that will tax the greatest possible facilities to care for. IL is ex- tremely fficuit in these days when political influences are forced by schem- ing politicians into every public move ment to separate the wheat from the chaff. The Topeka conference was no exception to ths .ule and it is not to the uttersnce of the politicians that we muet look for an explanation of the real busi- ness at hand. The last address made at the conference was few remarks by Mir. Brewster Cameron. In these re- marks is to be found the meat Of the whole proposition before the conference, as well as the magnificent tffer Of a s25O,O00 subscription to an 1nter-Amer- icsn exposition fund.
 He outlined the history, development and final culmination of the deep water movement, beginning with the ccnven- ton at Fort Worth. and resulting in the appropriation by congress for the impro- vement of one of the harbors on the Texas coast. He then pointed out the magical effrct which deep water harbors on the Texas coast would have on the commerce between the great west and the Gulf of Mexico. Attention was called to the fact that the cities of the Pacific seabosrd are mere hamlets, while those of the Atlantic coast are among the great cities of the world, and ex- piainad that this is due to the fact that they lie directly between the gransry of the west and teeming millions of Europe, who consume the surplus products of the great west.
 Mir. Cameron then stated that there seemed to be a fear that the great wealth of the east was centered in the east and west transportation lines, and that it would be impossible to divert the
 int north and south channels, but that per sonal experience in securing eastern cap- ital in the east had satisfied him that thsre were mill:oGs of dollars in the east inviting and seeking les sitimate invest ment in the south and west upon assur- ance that reasonable return could be secured.
 It is Rn immutabie law that commerce flows along the lines of least resistance, gr d it was the purpose of this confer ence to learn and overcome the artificial conditions which operate to defeat tbIs great natural law. The Gulf coast is out one half the distance that New York is from the grain fields of tbe west. To follows, therefore, that the Gulf is the natural outlet for the surplus products of all this great region. The prices of these products is fixed by Europe, not by New York or Chicago.
 The quantity of these products is toe vast to admit of their being cornered by any individual or com bination of indivi- duals; hsuce If transportation rates to gulf can bs secured for the shorter transit at a reasonable ratio of that tran sit to the transit to the Atlantic sea board, it follows as night the day tha the traffic will be delivered to the gull port which offers the best shipping facil ities to deep sea going vessels.
 Nr. Cameron drew 8 a graphic picture of the i'm mpulse that would be gwen tt the property of the great west and to th' manufacturing industries of the South ern States, and particularly the state O Texas, when the construction of the Nj csrsgua canal will have made the Gull of Mexico the Mediterranean of th, west, white with the sa!is of every ns tions' ships-the merchant marine O Edrope and of Asia-and nave centeret in the Cult of Mexico the commarce o the world.
 That Mir Cameron and his friends be lieve these things will come to pass i shown in the fact that they are backin their judgement with their money to a amount greater than has ever been pu into siagle enterprise in south wee Texas, barring the building of the raj roads. In full fruItion of their hope lies the greater development of scutt west Texas and every loyal citizen wi rejoice at ihe energy with which the AL. /