Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-07-31

From the Clark@yilc Standard
After all tho major and minor
di1icullcs-tho obtusoncss Of some,
the incrtncss of othors-tho selfish
and culating propcnsitics Of 9th
crs--allcr tho vilo fraud attempted
by members of n State Convention
for the specific purpose of framing
n State Constitution, t0pcrvert their
temporary power into u line Of leg
islation and adjudication, to pu,
lands and money into their own
hands, and divcst q chartered com
pany ola great franchise for tho
public good, which they had no pos
sibly prcsumablc right to touch, and
which they could not legally and
cffcctually divcst-at last, above all
the efforts of the fools and the knavos
tho fools who desire the knavish,
and tho knavcs who lacked little
of tho power to carry out their
schemes, tho great franchise is still
untouched, its operators and repro
sentativcs aro on tho fold Of action,
and q great, rich waste of unequal
cd fertility is about to be redeemed
from isolation and increased in value
q thousand fold, if its pooplo will
come up in II body enthusiastically
to tho support of tho workers who
have kept it above the trcachcrous
public agents constantly ready to
destroy It and divide the little spoil
among themselves, TO the serious and
permanent injury ola whole people.
The point of all this is officially in
our columns today, inviting con-
tracts for work on tho Memphis, Ell
Paso and Pacific Railroad, for fifteen
miles, comm cncing eight milos cast
of GAINESVILLE and extending sovon
miles west; and for ono hundred
and fifty miles commencing at Paris,
and extending westward to Palo
Pinto county. The means are in the
Bank of Franco to pay for this work
/. nd contractors can DO certain of
getting their pay.
Tho work, however, already conf
monccd, needs the moral and pecu-
mary support of tho people, who
should mako donations along tho
route, as heretofore promised, and
those promises mado basis for fl
nancial negotiations, and who should
be ready to grant all reasonable IA
cilitios, and avoid all suggestions to
speculate upon it as rich corpora
ton which it is not. Means are in
hand to pay all it at present pro-
poses to contract for, but means will
be continually needed TO push it,
So far neither the Company nor its
President have received any assis.
TANGO from tho people most to be
benefited by its construction; and
it should be borne 10 mind that great
Inducements are likely to be held
out by parties interested in chang
ing or DETECTING its route; and earn
est friends to tho enterprise should
give it strong support along the en-
tire line contemplated, and prevent
any cxtortions of other obstruction
to its progress. Right ofway should
be freely given it everywhere with
out price. The good its construc-
ton will do us is almost imprcasur-
able.
The effort of few triclzsters in
the late Convention to throw doubt
upon the value Of the charter, or do
away with it is simply a wild strike
for emolumcnt, and its legal effect,
a nullity. Yet in its temporary in
fluencc in Europe, where the legal
effect could not be appreciated by
the mass of mon disposed to in pay
ing enterprises, it was calculated to
depreciatc the bonds and prevent
their rapid sale. OF course such ef-
fects would vanish whenever there
would be applications by high legal
yet the effects Of all
shocks upon financial confidence is
to some extent injnrions.
A radical pow-wower by the name |
Of flanagan, who halls from RHsk |
or Cherokee and has some local no
toricfv not cnriabie has lately as