The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-09-17
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DIAL L AS, I 4 X AS.
FRIDAY MORNING ;::;:; SEPT. II.
rAxAr,os AMI MANUFACTURES.

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has long engaged tho attention of
some of our wisost public men, and
that il, how TO induce capital to
como from abroad and find fixed
and permanent Investment among
us for manufacturing purposes, and
at tho same time deal justly with
this capital and other property in
the State in tho way of taxation.
TO mako us prosperous people,
there should BIO diversity Of pur-
suits and labor, and everything
needful to us that wo arc capable Of
producing as cheaply as we pur.
chase from abroad, should be pro-
ducod and manufactured by our
selves, thus keeping the money at
homo that otherwise would 90 out
of tho State. For instance, today
Texas is importing large amounts
of dressed lumber, doors, sash,
blinds, barrel slaves, and even
hoop-poles and shingles, when We
have at our own doors, in Eastern
Texas, immense forests Of the finest
long and short leaved pine,
white oak, black oak, Spanish oak,
ash, cypress, cedar for churns and
water buckets, and hickory for hoop
poles. We have in Eastern Texas,
as well as elsewhere in the State,
iron deposits Of the richest charac.
ter, sufficient to manufacture all the
pot metal, plowshares, pots, skill
lets, ovens, kettles, stoves and rail
road iron that may be needed in
Texas and contiguous States for
centuries to come.
We have mines of copper in great
abundance. We produ CO sufficient
hides, when made in to leather, to
shoe II nation of people annually,
and to harness tho artillery and
cavalry horses Of Europe. We can
produce wool and cotton enough to
clothe all tho people on this CONT
nent. In few years from to-day,
there will DO sufficient wheat, rye
and barley produced in Texas to
supply the demands and wants of
ten times the number OF our own
population.
With all these and many other in
teresting facts patent to us, why is
it that Texas buys from abroad al |
most every article of real or fancied |
necessity that enters into her con-
sumption2 The answer is plain.
FIRST, the want OF cheap transporta-
ton of what we produce and can
produce to the centres of combined
capital, and, secondly, the want Of
capital to engage in manufactures
These constitute the answer to
tho question. Now, how is this
great want to DO supplied? In
other words how is Texas to
become tho great exporting instead
oftho great importing State of the
Union ? How is she to become tho
wealthiest, most prosperous, and
independent Of the commonwealths
of the American oonfederacy ? The
answer is simple and self.evidcnt.
BY every just and reasonable means
to invite capital and skilled and 9th.
or labor to come and fix permanent
abodcs with us. Encourage these
to como here and foster them so
they will remain. Not by an invi-
tation to capital to come and bo
loaned at usurous interest with
mortgages upon tho real estate and
improved properties ofthe country;
nor Of skilled labor for its products
TO DO taxed and driven away. The
leather that goes into the saddles and
brides Of the COW boys that drive
and hcrd the cattle on our prairics
should BIO manufactured in Texas
out of the hides of Texas cattle, and
the money that is sent out of the
State now for the leather should bo
retained at home, and stand to orr
credit and not TO our debit; and in
addition, the great quantities of gu.
mach and red oak bark at our com.
mand, now idle, should BIO utilized
and made productive and contrib
ute TO the wealth Of the State. And
so, too, in regard TO the manuiac.
ture of iron, of cotton and wooden
goods, Of lumber, and many other
articles of daily consumption
that can be produced and
manufactured at home more chcaply
than we can got them from abroad.
Not o horse shoe nail, nor horse
shoe, nota pound Of iron nor rail.
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