The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-04
1IUnRAH FOR DALLAS.
She Invites Manufactures 10 Locate
Here Free OF Taxation.

The action of the City Council In
passing resolution authorizing the
City Attorney to draw up an ordinance
exempting from city taxation, for u
period of five years, all persons, firms,
or others that may erect within said
city, within twelve months from the
passage OF the ordinance, any manufac-
turing establishment, the machinery
which shall cost. not less than ten thou
Wand dollars, independent Of lands,
buildings, etc, or give steady employ
ment to as many as thirty ems
ployees, is worthy of the high
est commentator, and should
earn for the members Of the board the
enconiums and praise of all advocates
of progress in this city. The time was
when it was a matter of national pride
to every American citizen to lend his
influence AID sympathles to the pro-
lection of whatever was American, In
competition with the product and
enterprise of whatever was not
American. Hencel the solid front
shown in other days by North and
South in our national legislature for II
protective tariff and other similar
measures for the encouragement aud
protection Of American iron, cotton,
WOODEN and other manufacturing pro-
ducts. That national pride having
been somewhat sQuelcbed out and n
kind of general Teach man for him
self inaugerated,n the South has about
concluded that 1t is high time to look
out for number one, just as other sec
tlons of the country have been and are
doing. The Southern States, and none
of them in n higher degree than Texas,
possess raw iron, cotton, wool, hides,
&C., and have for their whole period OF
existence rs members Of the Union
and have paid tribute to the Eastern
States until they all have become en-
rlched. For Northern manu-
features, under the "protec-
tive tariff system, "the South
Is paying for every stove, on which
they cook breakfast, fifty per cent.
more than 1t would cost If nlanufac-
tured in our midst, on the plates they
eat forty-tive per cent. ON the
knife and fork they eat with, thir-
ty-tive per cent. their food Is seasoned
with salt at one hundred per cent. and
with pepper at one hundred and TWEEN
ty per cent, they wear hats at seventy
per cent, smoke cigars at one hundred
and fifty per cent, hitch their horses
to plows at forty-fve per cent,
with trace chains mt one hundred per
cent, our ladies shawls cost us two
hundred per cent, merlno dresses, one
hundred and thirty per cent, merino
hose seventy-live per cent, pins,
needles and threads, thirty per cent,
we vote under Bunting flag at one
hundred per cent, ship cotton on
rails at three thousand dollars n
mile, ON cars at fifty per cert,
locomotives at forty-ive per cent, and
mend up things generally about our
homes with axe, saw, chisel and ham
mer, taxed from thirty-hve to one hun
dred and fifty per cent. And yet our
Southern people stand this rather than
go to manufacturing for themselves
and bringing those with capital and
experience to manufacture their raw
material into fabrics of utility and
profit, bringing these manufacturing
people and their machinery In behind
these formidable Notifications OF
Northern" protection, and thus build
up our section and interests by fair,
open-handed and legitimate COMPETE
ton. Who, In all this great State and
growing city of Dallas, would throw one
single restriction-aye, who would not
rather throw wide open the gateways
of her trade and commerce and let our
raw products OF cotton, wheat, hide,
wool, cattle, horses, sheep and swine,
come like flood tide, even until those
whose interests are at stake shall be
crowded out Of their present limited
quarters for more room, half mile, one,
two or three miles further. Who will
not encourage the establishment of
manufactures Of wagons, plows, cali
Goes. sheetings, blankets, leather, boots
shoes, soap, starch, yes everything of
industrial production which will make
of Dallas n grand city Of many thous-
and inhabitants, esteemed for herpr
perity and opulance, and the wisdom
of her policy in encouraging manufac-
tories and opening her gates to all
developments.
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Personal.
VIM. u. Champlin, of the Texas and