New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-19

leans being 3Z,ZoI2S bushels, as against 81 io''oo'
What must NewYork do to enable It to hold d Its Its
own against the rivals which threatening IL on
the north and on the south? 1t must:
second-Induce the railways to grant more favor
able rates.
Third-Enlarge the Erie Canal to meet modern
needs.
York has recently allowed of the other ports
ing to get terminal Charges (Which Of course. the
higher rents and the higher cost OF LABOR IN I'M
to a lower figure: A change in the required direc-
ton in those things would mean much for New
York. The need for the removal of some OF the
railroad rate discrimination against New-fork IS
obvious Certain trunk line officers oppose redqe
ton in rates on the ground that the other 1regnS
which pays them better. gives them all the bust
IS Decidedly urgent u And all the Considerations
which affect the city in this apply also TO the
But New-York's greatest need Uhe States as
wei as the city,s) is the Improvement of the Ere
Canal. The other necessities urgent ThiS
is imperative. Fortunately for State and city
ocay sse Eaeh Of the great to pcs
CARNATIONS is committed to canal improvement IN
Attorney General Cunneen-the former Repuo-
lcan and resident OF the eastern end OF the
the States western border-advocate the 1.0Oo-ton
this question should be submitted to the voters OF
the State November 3, 1903, 1t furnished immeas-
the commonwealth this year. Sectional opposition
is offered to the canal Improvement In several
jections are made TO the expenditure of the flOl-
resulted A few newspapers and public men near
the canal against the project-some of them
would cost i' much more than SOL caOoS instead Of
a barge canal; others because they are against any
expenditure the canal for any purpose
New-York in 1906 can better afford the expendi-
ture Of sol:G9eco0 on the canal than 1t could the
S7.600ooo in 1917. when the canal was begun Upon
will entail will be a lighter burden than was that
which the waterway originally imposed. II will be
bring to the entire State. This is a vast ques-
the particular region to which most Of its thine
date advantages would come Every county and
mately and in some degree by It. and the benef,
will more than counterbalance the burden. Every
state acts sympatheticaiiy on all the rest Of it.
Wsp 6Bs I 10 se se G a the
millions Of the rest OF the State including the rural
regions.
France has expended over 100000 in the last
portaton facilities. chiefly in canal building. and
has arranged to do more work Of the same sort
ing the Rhine. weser and Elbe) is still to be con
oo.oo on canal Building Austria proposes to cx-
pend s71O00Ooo Italy $4,000 600 and Russia Gnclud-
Sea- s150OO00Oo The suez Canal costing over
500 has paid for itself many times over by
rope and Asia. Americas 500 Canal which
the government has increased its activities tenfold
in comparatively recent times. and whose traffic
does triple the work of the Suez.
The proposed barge canal offers chance for
NeW-YOrk make greater commercial conquests
for itself than Europe has by its own
artificial waterways. and to win back much OF its
old ascendency. Even with the 1als virtually
abandoned by the state, as they have been in re
20 tons n Freight saTfed by the s7 fRs canals
from the opening in 1902 to September of that
year expanding to 215S9 tons in the corresponding
time I'm 1903. Two-thirds of this by the Erie
If the voters of the State November g. 1905 de-
clare for the barge canal. thus taking intelligent
advantage of the only gateway south Of Canada
by water from the lakes to the Atlantic and forcing
railroad rates down. and holding them down. New
York City will regain and maintain its old su-
premacy among the ports of the American CONT
nent. and New-York State will hold it's primacy
permanently among the States of the Union