Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-15
Canal Workers Hear Nixon
At Big Meeting Here
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until those who were present were
worked up to the highest pitch Of
enthusiasm.
your senator and the commissioner
from New York have acquainted you
with the actual facts and conditions,
the benefits and the plans of the ana
1t would be presuming in me to at
tempt to tell you what they hav so
well said. But the question as I see it
Is this: You know of the advantages
Of the canal and o are convinced
that you need. That being SO what
can be done?
Why IL this meeting were being held
out in our state every single man
and cowpuncher would be here with
his wife and sweetheart. You must
think that you are pretty near HEAVIER
and that you have everything you
want and don't need anything more.
(Applause). 1t is bordering on the
criminal not to take advantage of the
natural u that you have here
the judge said.
From thai point on the westerner
was interrupted frequently by 10
plause and held his auditors with him
all the way.
but to b. serious you must think
not only of yourselves. You u
think of the next generation. Per-
haps you will not reap the greatest
benefits of your proposed canal but
certainly your children of the next
generation will. Tn our state we saw
years ago that we would need money
for the education of our children and
for other public purposes. HOW Tic
we get it? Why we took over large
sections of the land as we needed 1t
and now the state mas a perpetual en-
dowment simply from the revenue de-
rived from the rental of the land. me
schools and other state improvements
are paid for by the lands ne aud
Arthur A. Quinn Speaks.
Arthur A. Quinn, who was in the
State legislature in 1914 when the
first appropriation was made by the
state for the purchase of the canal
right of a pledged the support OF
the 12O. 600 members of the New Jer-
sey State Federation of Labor or
which he is president. He said that he
would take the matter UP with them
at their convention this fall and could
assure the association of their united
support. 'What we need Is an ex-
tensive publicity campaign all over
the country. Labor is willing to do
its part and we look to the business
men to do their part. If we work at
this together in a whole hearted way
the canal will be an accomplished
fact within two years." Mr.. Quinn
said.
Assembly.nan Arthur e. Warner, of
Union county, a member of the COM
mittee appointed by former Governor
Edge to investigate the need for the
canal. said that it was a greater pro-
iect than could be covered by New
Jersey alone. He said that J. Hamp-
ton Moore, congressman from Penn
.sylvania, and president of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association and
also Governor Runyon would be at the
convention in October. He a that
the committee was forking now on
transportation statistics which would
be ready before the convention.
Mr.. Yorsten of the New BRUNSWICK
Board OF Trade said that he had been
a member of the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways association since 1870 two
years after the association was formed
and that the board OF trade was
thoroughly behind the movement for
the canal. He. said that he should
like to see a delegation that would I'LL
a railway train go to Washington and
petition Congress for the canal.
eff only I had the strength / would
dig the canal with my own hands
declared Charles G.. Snedelxer OF the
Perth Amboy S~hipyard.' In France
they build canals through mountains
ana surety we OuSll " Dc dpiS " 80
this little canal through" he said.
why didn't we see it before, viii be
the question we will ask n another
after the canal is built" Mr.. Snedeker
said. .
To date the following unsolicited
memberships have been taken out IN
the Intra-Coastal Ship Canal Associa-
ton:
Cities: Perth Amboy and South Am
boy.
Business memberships IS each: r.
w. Johnson, Thomas Langan Lumber
Company, Perth Amboy Hardware
Company, New Jersey Terra Gotta
Company, Morris L. Goldberger, Jacob
Goldberger, William L.. Haffner. VIII
liam H. Mccormick & Son, Thomas
Brown, Perth Amboy Dry Dock Com
pany, Charles L. Steuerwald, Inc,
Boynton Brothers & Company, Will
liam Joseph Korlowits and the Liberty
Pharmacy at Nixon.
Besides the above memberships.
sixty-two individual memberships
costing 81 each have been purchas-
ed.
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