The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-10-19
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the Nation unless you people Of the
South show a strong interest there
in
"Such reserves would be a paying
investment, not only in protection
to many interests, but in dollars and
cents to the Government. The I'M
,portance to the Southern people Of
protecting the Southern mountain
forests is obvious. Those forests
are the best defense against the
floods which. in the recent past, have
during a single twelvemop$h, de-
stroyed property officially valued at
nearly twice what it would cost to
buy the Southern Appalachian Re
serve. The maintenance of your
Southern voter powers Is not less
important than the prevention of
floods. because if they + injured
your manufacturing interests will
suffer with them. The perpatua-
ton of YOUR forests, which have
done SO much for the South. should
be one of the first objects of your
Dublic men. The two Senators from
North Carolina have taken an honor
able part in this increment. But
I do not think that the people OF
North Carolina, or of any other
Southern State, have quite grasped
the Importance of this movement t.
the commercial DEVELOPMENT and
prosperity of the South.
EsThe position of honor in you1
parade today is held by the Confed-
crate veterans. They bv their deeds
reflect credit upon their descendants
and upon all Americans, both be
cause they did their duty in war and
because they did their duty in peace
Now if the young men, their sons,
will not only prove that they possess
the same power of fealty to an IDEAL
but will also show the efficiency ~
the ranks of industrial life that their
fathers. the Confederate veterans
showed that they possessed IN the
ranks of war, the Industrial future
of This great and typically American
Commonwealth is assured.
EfThe extraordinary development
of in~dustrialism during the last half
century has been due to several
causes. but above all to the revolu-
tion in the methods of t%ransPorta'
ton and communication hat is, to
steam and to electricity, to the rail
road and the telegraph.
"sWhen this Government was
founded commerce was carried on
bv essentially the same instruments
that had been in use not only among
civilized. but among barbarian, ma
lions. over since history dawned T.:
that is. by wheeled vehicles drawn
bv animals. by pack trains, and by
sailing ships and rowboats. On
land this meant that commerce went
lin slow, c~umberous, and expensive
fashion over highways open to all
Normally these highways. could not
compete with water transportation
if such was feasible between the con-
Meeting points.
FAlI this has been changed by the
development of the railroads. Save
on the ocean or on lakes so large as
to be practically inland a trans
port by water has wholly lost its
old position of superiority over
transport by land, while instead Of
thc old highways open to everyone
on. the same terms. but of Il very
Limited usefulness, we have new
HIGHWAYS - railroads - which are
owned by private corporations, and
which are practically of unlimited
instead Of limited. usefulness. The
old laws and old customs which were
adequate and proper to meet the old
conditions need radical readjustment
in order to meet these new condi
tons. The cardinal features in
these changed conditions are, first.
the fact that the new highway, the
railway. is. from the commercial
standpoint. Of infinitely greater i'm
portnnce in our industrial life than
was the old highway. the wagon
road: and. second, that this new
highway. the railway, is in the hands
Of private owners, whereas the old
highway, the wagon road. was in the
hands of the State. The manage
ment of the new highway, the rail
road. or rather of the intricate web
Of railroad lines which cover the
country. is a task infinitely more diff
ncult. more delicate. and more i'm
portant than the primitively easy
task of acquiring or keeping in order
the old highway; so that there is
properly no analogy whatever be-
tWanD tho two coSes do not be-