New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-15
Acouninfance Wfrh Texas.

There ought to be an indissoluble tie
between New Orleans and Texas, and that
being the case, we copy the following article
from the Houston Union:
Texas is known at last. The world is at
| last awake to her vast advantages over
nearly all other lands. The time was IN the
memory of Texas journalists, still in the
| vigor of the prime of manhood, when the
| papers of the North and of Europe had
scarcely mention of Texas during a year,
! while their columns teemed daily with news,
incidents and descriptions Of California
| and all the States and Territories Of the
Great West. Now Texas is mentioned in
| the leading papers of the world, every day
| and everywhere.
Colonel Thomas A Scott president Of the
| Texas Pacific railroad, takes a trip through
| this State to examine the proposed line Of
| his road. Colonel FornGy, the talented
| and versatile editor OF the Philadelphia
| Press, accompanies him, as well as several
| other gentlemen of the North, of means and
| leisure. Colonel FOrney writes letters to
his paper descriptive of the fertility, health
anC advantages of Texas, which have made
tens Of thousands Of people in the North
wild with the desire to make their homes in
h Texas. Colonel Scott, in the interest Of his.
great road, visits San Francisco, to get its
people to build road connecting that city
With HIS IDhuy INC racine terminus u WHICH
is in San Diego. In his speech, as Published
in the Ulti0:1 of yesterday morning he gives
a glowing account of the fertility and latent
wealth of Texas. .
From New Orleans and Savannah to
Philadelphia and New York, the twenty
odd eastern branches of the Texas Pacific
railroad are chiefly interested in it, because
it runs through the vast and rich State Of
Texas So 1t is with the western or Pacific
feeders of the same road, from San Fran
cisco to San Diego, and lower down on the
Pacific coast. The time is near at hand
when every railroad running west from the
Atlantic and gulf coasts, from Portland,
Maine, to Houston, Texas, will seek its
Pacific and Asiatc connections over the
also near at hand when every railroad run
ming east from the Pacific coast, from
Oregon to San Bias, will seek its cOnnec-
tiOns over the Texas Pacific railroad Not
only tile whole United States will travel
and trade, west and east, over this great
railroad, but all Europe will travel and
trade to Asia over this line, and all Asia
will travel and trade to Europe over the
same line. Texas is destined, through thssI
great road, to become the common meeting
ground OF all the States and all the nations. |
Europe, the United States, Mexico, Japan, |
China, and all the vast Orient
In this light which is the true one, what |
lS the plttul SUBSIDY granted by the State |
of Texas to the Texas and Pacific railroad,
about which some narrow minded people |
make so much complaint? Itis nothing but |
an advertisement of the State worth thou
sands of millions, paid for at very low |
price.
Who has brought Texas at last to the no.
tice and the admiration of the world} The
hard worked and poorly paid journalists of
the State, who, for the past twenty years,
have advertised her gratis with all their
might. VIII they find their rewardl