The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-19

elusive jurisdiction and exercises
supreme control over all navigable
waterways. The deepened harbor
and the inland waterway in which
Pensacola is especially interested.
and the other Improvements which
other parts of the country are Just
as much interested, can be obtained
only through the action OF congress,
and this can be secured only by the
creation of a sufficient body OF en-
lightened public opinion TO impel, or
If necessary to compel, congress to
make the necessary appropriation.
and if dependence is placed upon APP
preparation, made from current reve-
nues, no man now living will ever
see waterway completed.
Should Begin Now,
All the immediate projects ought
to have been started so that they
could be finished at the same time a.
the Panama canal. They ought to be
started at once. and finished within
the next ten or twelve years, and this
result can only be obtained if funds
are provided In the same way as they
are provided for the Panama canal,
and that is by the issue of bonds. 1t
is the specific work, the only work
OF the National Rivers and HarboFs
Congress to carry on a campaign OF
education which will produce a pub
lie opinion necessary to influence the
action or congress. This campaign Ia
carried on through the newspapers,
through the magazines. by great con-
veDtions and by public meetings, such
as the one IN the Pensacola Chamber
of Commerce. Pensacola must aid
the Mississippi to-the-Atlanfic Wa
terwayS Association, and Pensacola
should also give financial aid to the
work Of the National Rivers and HaF-
boIs Congress, for the demand over
the entire United States for appro-
priatioRs to improve waterways is so
great that unless congress can be
brought to provide largely increased
appropriations, work on all the pro-
Jects in the country, including those
which are of vital interest to Pensa-
cola, will go forward in the future
even more slowly than in the past.
Project Endorsed.
At the close of Mr.. ThompSon's
address,, Hon. J. j. Sullivan made an
interesting talk, telling of the bene-
fits of the Erie canal. and also OF q
once projected waterway designed to
connect the Alabama and the Es-
Gambia rivers. He then moved that
a vote of thanks be given Mr.. Thomp-
son and that the project OF waterway
development be endorsed. The mo-
ton was carried and the following
resolution was adopted:
Resolutions Adopted.
Resolved, that this mass meeting
of the business men OF Pensacola en-
dorse the policy OF the National
Rivers and Hsrbors Congress, to-wit:
$50,000,e00 year for river and har-
Dor improvements. and, IL necessary,
government bond issue OF $500. 000,-
600 in order to carry out said policy.
Resolved further that the Cham
Der of Commerce committee on leg
islation, rivers and harbors, with six
others to be named by the chair. be
created special committee to coop
crate with Field Secretary S. A.
Thompson Of the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress in securing funds
to assist the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress in carrying on its
campaign of education
Other Matters.
DR.. Routzahn, who is in charge OF
the tuberculosis exhibit which Opens
tomorrow In Pensacola, was present
and on invitation made a brief adj
dress. The matter of entertaining
the Mayor Rose party from Mnwau-
kee, which comes here Saturday,
was left with the Chamber of Com
merce officers AMI Mayor Goodman,
and the meeting then adjourned.
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