The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-08-01
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desire, through your columns, to
call the public attention to an cnorm-
ois injustice pracIiccd upon the wheat
growing region of Texas. The injus-
tico complained of will be seIEevident
by the bare statement Of two lncts.
The one Is that the Central road
ships wheat from Dallas TO Austin at
seventy dollars per ear load, and
charges for flour to Austin one hum
dred and forty dollars per car load.
The other Is, that the charge upon
wheat from Kansas City to Galveston
Is sixty cents per one hundred pounds,
to Houston iifty.ilvc cents, and to Dali
las sixty-ivc cents.
The question comes up, why these
odious DETERMINATIONS II Is fact
well known that the design has been
long premcditated by Houston, and re-
Gently by Galveston, of subordinating
the wheat growing interest ofall north
ern Texas to the aggI andl2cment
of those ciiics. Mr.. Cave was on the
ground when the advent of the Central
railroad was celebrated in Dallas, to
graci0usly inform the people that
Houston would build mills and grain
elevators, etc, for their benefit. An
out of the way place. with no natural
advantages, IL seeks to sustain its eN-
istcnce by adventitious props. The
very eNigencies of her surroundings
has made her people little the
sharpest in the state, and II they can,
by any means, transfer the entire bust
ness OF manufacturing Hour from the
wheat section of the state to their own
city they would be delighted, and the
Central railroad would chuckle ut the
opportunity of ireighting flour back to
the people who grow the wheat.
Other things being equal no one can
| deny that the tittest place for the MAN.
uMcture of flour is in the region where
the wheat is produced. The direct
tendency of the present rail-
road charges is to break down the
milling interests OF northern Texas
and force surplus wheat below the
region of its production to be manu-
featured into flour. This process in
turn forces the millers of this section
to take from the price they pay for
wheat the sum of these excessive
charges. And what is the next result ?
Why, that the millers thus deprived
Of the ability to enter into fair compe-
titiOn must sooner or later abandon
their business and leave Galveston and
Houston 10 take the wheat nj such
prices rs will give them enormous
profits, or they must seek to get such
reduction upon railroad freights rs
will enable them to draw their sup
plies of wheat from st. Louis, Kan
sas City, or both, rs may seem best.
The writer has no sympathy with
any extraneous influences that may be
adopted to divert trade from its natural
| channels. The violation of any OF ma
ture's ordinations whether in religion,
ethics or commerce, is always at
tended with evils aud wisdom would
dictate cooperation with them rather
than opposition. But what does the
greed of Houston and the Central rail-
road for they are identical) care about
the natural laws OF commerce? What
do they care for the general welfare?
And here we would remark that Gal
weston, that has always heretofore act
ed as a check upon the cormorant pro-
pensitics OF Houston and the Central
railroad, Is now with singular faulty
cheek BY jowl with them in trying to
eviscerate this region of the state.
She has SO acted as to destroy the nat
ural sympathy that should exist be-
tween her and this section until
now, II straws show which way
the wind blows, she IL ripenlng hos
tility and positive hatred towards the
infant city of Dallas. Can 1t be sup
posed that Dallas or this section of the
state will tolerate the odious discrimi-
nations now existing? No one ex-
pected anything but intense selflshness
from Houston and the Central railroad.
But from Galveston, aspiring TO be the
emporium of this great state, much
disappointment and modification Is
felt that she should be playing second
fiddle 10 the little, narrow.mlnded pol.