The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-03-09

N"N ''""s u""'i"h W tuc tuiirUuu
system in the State. That city has
received moro benefit from State
aid than every other portion Of the
State. viii the Chronicle man
examine this subject and ascertain
too who lent that city helping
hand to aid it's procurement.
The present owners of the tn p.
X. Il. Company, obtained control of
the franchises of this road in Nav
last. Immediately engineer corps
were~ placed on every part Of
the line from Red River 10 San
Diego, and on the first Of October
last, work on the grade was lot
out on about FIVE hundred miles
on tho eastern division.
Since that date they have
prepared for the iron about two
hundred miles of their road. There
is aIready delivered and afoat near
three hundred miles Of iron. The
balance Of tho five hundred miles
will be delivered us fast as it can be
transported. AS to the policy OF
granting tho subsidy ofsl0,0OO per
mile to tho company, by the last
legislature there may be, and j
know is, much diversity Of opinion,
but it has been done, and should
be faithfully carried ont. We have
more interestin the preservation of
tho state credit than we have in
The prophecies Of oven the Croni-
clio man. And as to Gov. Throck-
morton's connection with the COM
pany it is we'll known that he ia
director, and attorney for the COM
pany and that he is doing, pre-
sumo, what any honorable gentle.
man would do to forward tho enter
prize which ho with others have
undertaken. Envy always directs
its poisoned shafts at success. The
fauIt-iinder is n near relative OF en-
Wy. Inuendoes are the weapons OF
ignorance. But the EAST still
has hopes that this triplet
Of folly and misfortune may
not blast our hopes of profting
by having our country penetrated
by the best enterprise that this
ago has projected, and that Gov.
L, will no: suffer in. reputation
Except with the Chronible many,
by his honest endeayors to assist
in its execution. 1t should DO re-
membercd that Gov. H., since he
entered public lie, has been the
advocate Of u liberal system Of in
lernal improvement, advocating
State aid in public lands. He has
steadily adhered to this policy. lie
was one Of tho first mon in
Texas to argc such y policy,
rs would secure to his State q rail
road to the Pacific ocean through
her territory. He was not alone
in this, but acted with such mon us
Rusl,, Potter and others of the best
and purest men Of the State. He
ut no time favored tho donation OF
State bonds to railroad companies,
and has urged the adoption Of the
constitutional amendment because
il would enable the people to dis
charge an obligation involving
heavy taxes, in waste and unin-
habitcd lands and because it
would enable eastern and western
Texas to secure railroad facilities,
now dcaicd them, and by such
means fairly distribute to every
section of tho Sta.e even-handed
justice.
Through state aid in lands and
the school fund, Houston has had
one road built across the State, be-
sides branches to Austin and Waco,
and has pushed another to the
centre. Will this man deny to 9TH
crs who are without railroads the
poor privilege Of trying to change
the constitution, SO that they may
profit by her example? Deny to
others the aid she has received and
hers is monopoly
KERsEY.