The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-17

vantages. It Is not Just q name to be
used for calling lot OF busy men to-
to, mighty "gabfest-' It is an orgaui-
zation; has q continuous existence: can
be found; can be communicated with
every day In the year: can and does work
every day. Its managing director is at
No. 1925 New York Avenue. in washing
ton. dsyotinE e. al ra his time every day to
man Of its Executive Committee. and the
members of the committee. are men Of
prominence in the different Southern
thing, making some sacrifice for the work.
In answer to a call authorized by
rr e. Boards Of Trade, etc. about i've
hundred Southern business men met in
Washington in December, 1908, to dis
cuss the possibilities Of more rapid de-
South. The result was the organization
Of the Southern Commercial Congress
designed to be:
commercial bodies and individual business
institutions interested in Southern prog
ress. an extended Chamber Of Commerce
local Chamber does for its community,
centralized source Of information and in
piration for local organizations. national
assembling and circulating nationally the
broad facts regarding Industrial. COM
mercial and agricultural possibilities and
It was decided that headquarters should
be located at Washington. because sta
tistical information from any department
there be Immediately available: because
Washington is the point Of conveyance
of all the news arteries Of the country;
favoritism to any other Southern city,
If headquarters were not established at
all strictly within the South.
practical business man that breaches
against the futility Of congresses and con-
ventions that meet, with. a blast Of
jou UNI to lie dormant until they are called
together again for another picnic.
We are as positively opposed to pro-
serxatiVs Gould be But we Do
believe that the raw material, the water
power, the mineral deposits. the factories.
and the vast acreage Of idle lands in
money.
And we further believe that no one
no one state t,Ca within n this Pc
try can do what Is needed to convert the
national mind to the truth about its
unlimited opportunities. but that sane
structive forces can work out-by the
time the Panama Canal Is opened--a des-
tiny for the South, which win be not only
our people, but the return of the South
to the councils Of the nation in the po-
teney Of statesmanship we once enjoyed
We believe that the problems of the
South should be solved by the men Of
the South. and that only upon common
meeting ground where brain can touch
brain, where purpose can converge with
purpose, where common needs can be
thrown upon united effort, will we seek
out as rapid change IN our Sonsit,ens
ern Commercial Congress Is designed to
be this meeting place
THE OTHER END OF THE CANAL.
Hon o. L. Frisbee, A NJ. Vice-Presi-
dent Of the Atlantic Deeper Waterway
Association, of Portsmouth, n. H., said:
nse sSsov Of b ai 9a2e 81 5a
transportation facilities. 1t is, therefore.
Of the greatest Importance that the peo-
pie Of any state or nation should find out
ton Of the products of its people. and
then bend every energy for the develop
n1ent of these means.
out and many Of them to their sorrow.
that the railroads Of the country, cannot
handle the business of the country. any
handle the business Of the country at
that time. We are turning to water
ways for relief, as they turned to water
ways.
Il is our great duty as a nation of
ninety million people. to convince con
nize. that is the imperious necessity to
improve our waterways in general and
the construction Of the fntercoastal canal
from Maine to the Rio Grande, in partic-
ular.
states, through which this canal extends,
that NOT % help Waa st os s ssd an
friends on Guard" Let us send only men
to congress who are favorable to the
inteleoastal canal.
among them, the saving Of lives and
property annually ,+, would snas oa Ct
the United Kingdom. France, Spain, Ger
many and Italy, and give forty-fve mil
on Of the far the mnes and
factory, connecting the rivers and har-
bors of the Atlantic and Gulf ports. and
the west, and the Orient. by the way OF
This canal extending along coast line
of 1850 miles would be safer for life and
less Idse 81 Hss ana
sands Of dollars are lost every year about
Cape Hatteras and Cape Cod. to say
nothing. Of the lost lives along the other
The average speed OF a freight car is
twenty-three miles a day Of twenty four
hours. One tug takes down the Ohio
River seventy thousand tons of coal one
hundred miles in twenty-four hours It
would take a train OF freight cars fifteen
miles long to earry the 60 Ohio tow With
transportation costs from one-sixth to
one-tenth Of freight transportation costs.
We pay every year three times as much
for transportation as we do to run
the government. Transportation affects
everything that anybody buys, sells. eats.
or uses in any way, air., water and sun
shine excepted. It cost New England
seventy million dollars to get thirty mil
lion dollars worth Of coal for their fire.
sides and mills, last year. It cost the
same ratio to get their part CT the Ave
million bales of cotton consumed in this
country in 1908 and 1909 We not only paid
It on the raw material but the food pro
ducts that we consumed. The first prob
lem Of the world still remains the great
problem Of the world. how to feed the
people The cry of bread was one OF
the great causes Of the French revolu-
ton. Our country has climate that can
produce all foods but we are a country
of distances. 1t is as important to pro-
vide for transportation of food stuff as
Is the production, the solution of the
problem is, the Improvement of our
Water transportation not only makes
cheaper freight rates. but makes railroad
rates cheaper. and promotes industry.
Manchester England. was a dying town
until il built tie Manchester Ship Canal
At a cost Of seventy-fve million dollars
This made her rich. and the eight million
Of the Industrial community of which she
is the center, rich Frankfort grew more
in twenty years after she canaled the
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