Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-02-10
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The Dallas Herald rro'es H l no
,ifitad ~ nilfrads hu' hI." UrDs
way N showing u, by lriing idpt y .r
NIL railroads me inscals. Railroads have
litlr own notions ~ well ne newsrlper
aud " Dallas il left oni In HE coli Ny lh'
ron rail, II will have lhe Herald 10 thank
or it, Hopsim Tm&
Tie nboye precious pitagraph, whi'l
about equals the best Efforts VI he Tines.
requires some cummcdls. The Dallas
lrRALp not only PROGRESSES To he bat - The
friend of raj lron,s, not ~ railroad abuses.
II has shown Ibis certainly sintt he pres
cut editor has conducted It's columns. We
have defended their charters and tho STATE
and individual aid extended to them. We
desire to see them prosper nni flourish
In, we o. jet 10 their abusing the prive'
lcgcs granted them tn ihs injury of the
pnhllc. We hive sail, and we repeat IT,,
that they are too apt. after having oht'incd
all they want. 10 look to II dir own interest
exclusively without recarl to the public
interests, AMI, sometimes, to the great In
Jury Of individuals We havo neve' said
that call railroads are rasohls, but we
will now sny, that MI railroads, from The
very nature Of corporations, need watching
very Inv student, who has Rad Blnck-
stone, know, that they h,vc mo souls to
be saved or damned, though their stock
holders and directors may have.
That they "haye their own notions as
well MS newspaper" i, very ,-vlienr, aud
some Of these notions we believe, it the
duty of newspapers t. condemn, and sll
newspapers, if not too imii, or slolhful,
or subsidized will co. denim them. One no.
ton seems to he To get, fro N town or city
to come near it, donation of land
more than sufficient for the purposes Of n
depot, and then lay il off into lots and en-
deavor to start new town to rival or ruin
the Old one and its generous and conhding
inhabitants. Will the Times say that
this is right and just? Is this motion
TO be commended? Not by US, surely.
Another motion is to prevent the build
ing OF otb,r railroads, if there is any
prospect oil its lcssching their own profits,
though the good of the public MAJ demand
them. Is that right? We have been told
BY one, who represe tied himself rs the
Agent of the Central Road, that I! South
ern Pacific would no, be built--that Tom
Scott would prevent it--and that the Cen.
trail road and Tom Scott were acting IN
concert, il not on rhat particular point,
on others corus,tea with it. If this be
true, and the Central Road has had abun.
dent time to aisavoy The agency, which i,
has not done, We nsk again, is that right?
A large section of cur State is deeply in.
terested in the builling of the Southern
! Pacific and the Texas Pac tic-the State
has given aid TO the former, as it once
gave aid TO the Central Ralroa d, of which
we do not complain, but under these cir
cumstancrs, is it right for The Central
Road 70 take st,ps and enter into combina.
lions to prevent the building Of these
! roads? Mind you, we d. not charge ex.
plicitly that this has been .donc-we ear
nestly hope not-but the managers of the
Central do not even deign to notice the
| suggestion, which is calculated TO injure
them in the estimation of many good cili-
zens in This section, but pass it by appar
emily with contempt. Very well if they
think SO. They may be utterly indiifer
cnt TO public opinion, and that is one o.
the complaints We make ofrsilroads in
general They should not be. They hav,
no moral light 10 be.
AS to the little threat, that Dallas may
be ''left out in the cold" iploss no. fright.
en- us bit, whether. it cu,nes frcm the
mighty Times or the still more mighty
Central Railroad. left out how? BY vi
olaiing the express provisions OF Their
charters? Are they powerful enough tc
! 10 this without authority? Or do they
expect to get such authority from the Mex
Legislature2 The people Of Texas, as W ell
as The people of Houston, will have some
/ thing to do with the election of the mem.
bers of the next Legislature, and they will
see that they are not men, who can be
bought up by rairoa either in or out oil
| the State. That is ali we have 10 say
shout this matter just now. :. a..