The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-06-18
ON sTILTS-LAFITTE AND JIM LANE
--DULLN AND OYSTERS IN MAY.


ON sTILTs-I.AFITTE AND JIM LANE
BULLS AND OYSTERS In MAY.
In the journey of life we have occa-
sonally met folks who tried to walk
on stills in order to appear taller than
nature made them-others are content
with high-heeled boots and bee-gnm
hats as IA sufficient decoy.
Tho recent intermarriage between
delegation from the great bull pen,
known as Kansas City, and thepeople
down on I.ahttes old stamping ground,
now the Island City, reminds us of
these stit-loving people. With heads
erect, nostrils dlstendod and "eyes
right" they pascal intermediate local
tiles as II they, the high contracting
parties PRESIDENT respectively on q sand
bar in the gulf, and on the dividing
line between BLEEDING Kansas and
the old haunts ofthe "Border Rulllan")
carried all Texas, the Choctaws, Chick
asaws, Creeks, Semlnoles, Osages, Qua
paws, Kickapoos ana Cherokees in
their breeches pocket. They are stuck
up us much and strut about rs grandly
as II fiop-eared youngster from the sand
hills, when he sports his first cigar. 1t
Is amusing to witness the self-satlstied
complncency with which they strut
and spread under the weighty conVic-
ton that mighty issues rest upon their
shoulders. An inward illumination
whispers to them--"look wise! be
dgnilied speak as oracles and
thereby convince mankind that Kan
sas City and Galveston are the great
emporiums of the sea on the one side
and the mighty valley of the Kaw,
where aforetime Jim Lane reignod as
second Rob Roy, on the other. Do
thusly and imigine all the intervening
and surrounding tribes will paytribute
and render liege service to them as
self-appointed sovereigns. Hence the
pork.eating Kansasians pass along the
highways on their visit to the fishy
Gdlvestonians--(thel people once so
poetically described by three-legged
Willie)-without turning to the right
or left, but cockney-like, assuming to
be deeply absorbed In the mental up
heavings of their internal reveries, rs
to be unconscious of every other por-
ton of the Lords heritage, They step
as high and look rs lofty as ever did
the eagle Of the Blue Ridge, Collin de
Bland, when surcharged with tangle
foot. Nor Denison, nor Sherman, nor
Mckinney, nor Dallas, with its buck
horn corner and grand hotel behind
the market, nor any wayside sister, re-
ceived grunt from the porllassian
ambassadors of Kaw river. They were
after oysters in season when "old
saltso don't use them, but are willing
'land-lubbers" should. And now the
Islanders, the inhabitants of the mod
ern Venice, where every time you
sneeze on the dock, you pay five, ten,
twenty or thirty cents, the tariff de-
pending ON whether you sneeze at n
box of crackers, p barrel of flour, a pipe
of whiskey or n bale of cotton--these
Islanders repay the visit, They de-
cline all intermediate association and
strike Decline in search of pork and
trade. They don't go as Texas folk
by no means--but as Islanders bent on
gathering tribute from vast domains.
Well, let them go. Az they betray
an evident desire to labor for their mu-
tual aggrandisement, without caring
for the eight hundred miles of inter
vening country, the occupants thereof
will intervene on their own account by
fostering, strengthening aud expand
ing their already large and profitable
trade with Saint Louis and the cities
on the lakes. They have no special
interest In Kansas City, which has
grown saucy by shipping their cattle,
and between Saint Louis and New Or
leans they can live and prosper with
out sneezing for Galveston. They are
not mad, but only feel like taking the
starch out ofthe successors of Lafitte,
the pirate, and Jim Lane, the jay
hawker, that they may see themselves
as others see them. Moreover, they
intend to send q full array Of ambassa-
doris, representing the interest of the
country, and not a couple of monopoly
towns, to the great cities of Saint Louis
and Chicago, there to commune with
men:of business on these things which
go to benefit the country. SaintLouis,
standing square in shoe leather, ignor-
ing stills, high heels and .bee-gums,
with outstretched arms, says, ''come!"
She never does anything stealthily or