The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-09-24
DALLAS. TEX AS.
FRIDAY MORNING :::::: SEPT a.
EXEMPTION OF MANUFACTURES
FROM TAXATION.

We again urge upon inc CohVeh'
ton the Importance OF " provision
in tho Constitution allowing the
Legislature to pass laws eXemptng
from taxation for n short period
capital engaged in manufactures
We referred to this subject in an cd
itoria few days ago, which has
elected from the Jefferson Leader
an able article in the same direc-
ton.
The great want in Texas is active
capital, money, available means for
immediate Investment in public en-
terprises. Our people are rich in
everything else. Our lands arc OF
inexhaustablo fertility, and our pro.
auctions embrace almost everything
grown from the earth. Our forests,
in all the Eastern half of the State,
are boundlcss, and the tlmbers arc
of nearly every variety known to
the temperate zone. Our minerals,
and especially Of iron aud copper,
arc known TO be abundant and Of II
quantity and value unsurpassed al
most anywhere. Immigration Is
pouring into tho State from every
point of tho compass. The new
population which is filling the land
is for the most part population Of
farmers, men who came to till the
soil, to grow wheat, and corn,
and cotton. Immigration to
Texas thus far is II movement
of tho agriculturalists farmers
change of habitation into u new, and
rich, and goodIy land, 1t is m inn
migration, in State like ours, first
Of all to be desired. 1t has been, is,
and will be, the substratum Of all
our wealth, and power, and prosper.
ity. The area OF cultivation is al.
most an unlimited one, with capac-
ity TO support in case and comfort
millions of the human race.
The climate can not be excelled;
the soil is as rich as tho earth az
tords; transportation from the nte-
rior has become easy and rapid, and
as time passes these facilities will
be increased until tho whole land
will be traversed with great lines of
communication; hourishing towns
and cities ,ire growing up like
magic in all directions, affording ac-
cessible markets for the surround
ing country with means for the pur-
chase of all that the earth produces;
80 that nothing is in the way of u
most complete and prosperous agri.
cultural development throughout
oil tho limits of the State.
Whilst we shall thus soon have
millions of farmers we can not
have too many Of them-wbose
whole attention will be given to the
fruits of the earth, it is the part OF
wisdom--it is the part Of patriot
ISN'T is the highest duty ofstates-
manshlp-to secure every means
for the elevation Of that great class,
TO better their condition in every
conceivable way, to add to their
comfort, to enlarge their facilities
for advancement, to contribute to
their wealth, and to do all manner
of things which will add to their
prosperity For the wealth of the
farmer is the wealth of the nation.
Agricultural prosperity is the pros.
perity Of the commonwealth.
TO contribute to this wealth, the
way must DO carved out, by which
what he sells must bring the high
ost prices, and what he buys must
be offered to him at the lowest fig.
ures. The former is accomplished
by the construction of railroads, 80
as to give him cheap and rapid
transportation to all the markets of
the world, and the latter by fur
nishing to him oil manufactured ar
tictes chcaply, speedily, as his wants
may demand--maautactured articles
made at home. The building Of rail.
roads has been subject OF State
legislation, and has occupied the
serious attention of our statesmen
ever since our existence as o State.
1t has been the governmental policy
OF the dominant party for more than
quarter of a century, and tho no.
suit is a good system grown up by
the muni6ccnce of the State in the
matter Of the public lands, and
nearly every considerable section Of
Tho settled portion Of the State is
now travorsed by the locomotive.
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