Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-08-13

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Can it be the men who buy this
land, or the men who cultivate it
and raise the basic productions?
BY what means will you create
happy homes, prosperous people and
conditions?
The basic products need The best
and cheapest transportation facili-
ties to reach the needed market.
We must be. flair, we must be just.
to the railroad company, and never
kill or destroy the goose that lays
the golden egg. At the same time
we must consider the demand Of the
future and follow the human in
stinct of self-preservation. God
helps those who help themselves,
and God gives to the wise and indus
trious all things. Then pillow deep
while the sluggard sleeps and you
will have corn to sell and keep.
Water Transportation and Water
Conservation.
In this great Lower Rio Grande
Valley the perpetuation Of our SUI
premacy depends upon these two
Northumberland transportation
facilities, cheap transportation, con-
t~inuous transportation, and, second,
a storage for the flood waters Of the
Rio Grande.
Are We right in agitating and de-
handing those Improvements?
If we are right, we should never
quit, for in the end right is bound
to win. 1t is true that in a fight
to gain what is right ONE the test
of men. This test strengthens and
helps men to remain men. In all
great causes men are tried in the
melting pot and while the trial at
times is indeed severe yet the vic
tory overcometh all.
The Worlds Universal Avenue.
The great venue Of the world Is
water. The great communities Of
the world have been those which
commanded water transportation.
The communities which depend on
anything else are Handicapped in
the struggle for commercial suprem-
acy.
| must agree with The Herald
that Brownsville is slumbering on
her opportunities. Some are lost
and some will be lost. Brownsville,
in discussing the rule of success. I'M
fortunately neglects the means Of
getting it.
Why, people, Of what good is our
increased capacity for basic produc-
tion if we can not reach a desirable
market for our productions?
Instead of its being a benefit to
have our output larger, to have our
communities n farms filled with
farmers eager. ready and anxious to
market their products, it is simply
sitting us. We can not send our
products to distant markets in the
United States because we have not
water transportation and cheap
transportation 10 every strongly
populated center.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley
produces crops twelve months in the
year. Water will provide the facil-
tiles, and it is only water transport
tation that will give you, not a sixty
day security, but twelve months Of
securi Y. 1t will give you absolute
assurance of fair and equal rates at
sufficiently low cost to enable you
to go into open competition in the
markets of the United States with
any and all agricultural sections.
No community that does mot
father its own interests does not de-
serve success.
Why should not this great artery,
BRACES Santiago, be utilized?
This port today with its ten feet
Of water at the bar should be devel-
oped, improved and used. and it is
part Of Brownsville's duty to do
what she can to carry out the de-
mand and necessity Of the hour.
Will Brownsville ever become a
great city? Will Brownsville ever
become a commercial city, a point
for the expectation Of the millions
of tons of basic products of this
great section, and the distributing
point for the exports and imports Of
half of Mexico?
The importations through the
Mexican border districts amount to
more than twenty millions of dol
lars, and the expectations at the
present time are over tw~enty-nine
millions.
Fifty millions Of dollars worth of
exports and imports by way of
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