The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-19

Nothing worth while comes excep'
through travail. 10 big thing mar
mems NJ great enterprise is born r.
! i day Or IL 3 wear. Il must trSt g.
i.t In the dream of some man .:
men ~ vision and faith. They m1s'
! sec II With the cye OF faith - clsdf'y
#. NOS: folks sill see il FIth the
kcI eve after the dream las zen
1 rellizcd Long years ego. 'ef"f@ an
! bin had been introduced IN Congress
looking 10 an inland waterway ~
North Carolina. Marshall parks, re-
| garded as a dreamer mad seen IN his
| dreams commercial fleets plying tn"
waters OF Eastern North Carolina ana
the inland waterway removing the
terrors Of Hatteras. COL. Creect
had written about il. COL. Haily
skinner had introduced a bill n ON
grcss. This paper had printed col
| umns about what such a waterway
| would do for Eastern North Carolina
| and so had other progressive papers
Rnt il was with most Of Us regarded
| as 1.-The story Of an hour and lew
! expected to live to see any realization
Of the dream. It was not until HOE.
John Fl. small. the able and
full member of the House from the
First district, devoted his energies and
talent to converting the ideal into the
actual that many expected 70 1--we 70
see the waterway an accomplished
fact.
The readers Of this are IA
= -. 80 ,lL - .1 ~, % - p, oUta anl
effort, eliminating in the appropriate
ton by the last Congress of $20O,oU0
and $3Ja,0O0 to be appropriated here
after to make the southern division
from Beaufort inlet to Pamlico
sound. The Speaker Of the House
and Chairman Burton, of h Rivers
and Harbors Committee, have always
either been actively opposed to this
great idea of Mr.. Smal!'s, or have pas
aively stood in the way, and denied to
him the place ON the River and l1ar-
Dor Committee, logically due him,
solely because he had shown intciil-
gent zeal ana state@manship in the
persistent advocacy Of q constructive
plan that means more for the South
Atlantic States than any plan propo.-
ed in the history OF river IN harbo"
improvements.
When the House had finished the
River and Harbor Appropriations BIZ,
it was found that, though having q
large expanse Of coast and important
rivers, the measly sum of $536,563
was appropriated TO North Carolina,
from an omnibus bill Of 50 many NIL
lions as to be a record-breaker.
The River and Harbor bin as it left
the House carried III appropriation Of
$50, 900, 900, Of which North Carolina
was given only $536,563, or one hun
dred and siSticth part Of the whole.
Virginia was given $1,14S,054; Ten
nessee (Which has no sea cOast) ST.
440,595; Georgia, $1,S35,650; Florida,
81 sos, 610; Alabama (Which has no
~seacoast) $3,G63,000. After the North
Carolina Senators had fought with
every power possible, the total for
North Carolina was increased to ST.
103, OO0--just one third of what Ala
bama got in the first Kraft Of the bill.
The injustice to North Carolina was
so manifest hat Senators Simmons
and Overman spoke with roper feel
ing to their colleagues and virtually
told them that unless North Carolina
| was given a bigger slice of pork they
could not stan for the passage of the
bill known as "the barrel of pork
Senator Simmons had an opportunity
to make his demand heard because
he is a m of the Commerce
| Committee, having charge of river
and harbor appropriations, and the
| Senate inserted in the bill $550,00O
for the Southern division Of the inland
waterway, though he put it in as an
! independent proposition. Burton, and
| others who opposed the inland water
way, seeing that their. discrimination
against North Carolina could not be
defended, finally Yielded 50 far as to
permit $550,OOO to connect Beaufort
inlet with Pamlico Sound-an impor-
tant link in the inland waterway. h
! determined effort of Senators SIM
mons and Overman to force this small
measure of justice to North Carolina
| has been warmly commended, though
they were unable because of adverse
influence to secure recognition of the
Improvement of the Upper Cap Fear.
! Senator SimOnS is enthusiastic in the
belief thai his $3.50. 900 is but the en-
| terinS wedge and that the future Con-
crosses will see the advantage of i'm
proving the water ways in Eastern
North Carolina and give larger appro-
p~riations, and that it means the be-
ginning of great things for Casters
North Carolina.
A review Of the fight that now is
nearing victory is now of value. At
the time of his erection TO the Fifty
sixth Congress in 1898 MI. Small was
thoroughly impressed with the situa-
ton in Eastern North Carolina. re
2arding the restrictions upon
its Water-borne trade. He had
personally known Marshall Parks,
who was a dreamer and Vet had a
clear comprehension of the situation,
and he had talked With a number Of
our North Carolina folks. He had
seen the of WASHINGTON
with the West Indies and with north
ern and southern ports decline, because