The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
LUCK OF Texas N 1870.

| Texas Is certainly significant of brighter
day dawning almost impereeptitdy upon the
country. Faith in the future y. athe COM
monwealth is demonstrated, and i IS also
shown that the purse-stiings Of Piutus are
loosened, and that change in tue financial
condition of the whole country il slowly
progressive indicative Of a degree Of com
merciaI and industrial activity ia Texas not
known through macy recepg years. The
iron hand of horrule. ghss'iy, ignorant -and
polluted local governments has been lifted
off the burdeued, weary shoulders of civic
Corporations, and the people, seeing the sy
OF final escape. and every prnspect Of sue
csssful enterprise and Of richFf rewarded
energy and toll, begin TO devise. measures
and ineugurste schemes fpF the develop
ment OF every resource Of The country
The surest sueury of ginning prosperity
is und IN the conduct OF Iaiiway-builders
These are the county, chiefest Benefac-
tors; to these we owe most Of the epmforts
Of life as we'll as augmented praperty val
ues aud progressive, pophlar in'eiligence.
| The Tyler Tap road rapidly approaches
| completion, and us tcrmIbat towns grow
rapidly in Population and wealth. Inter.
yeuing Z, rms, AS must occur between Austin
and Laihpasas when the narr9w gauge Is
inaugul sied, a,e qaaorupled Ia, value, and
the people cultivate fields more carefully,
/ build bettor fences and houses. and become
addicted 10 books, newspapers and peda-
gogues. Contact with The busy, moving
world necessarily brgets these changes. ~ g
Jefferson moves at last, and, with share
Of ease in tie money market, even that
once prosperous town is induced tomake
one desperate stI uggle to escap pc anniAIla-
ton, and the people, as cone man, devote
wealth 10 the construction IF rlie East Line
| Railway, designed - c9uateruct the effect
! Of lateral roads tiat haYo almost destroyed
the place. Houstnn too, the old capital at
the chi of the ditch, seemingly suiitten
with that fatal paralysis that touched and
withered, when savagery aud tRadicslism
were dominant, every nerve and muscle of
each Southern commercial metropolis
! Houston lifts its head once more, would
| d
thieves from unknown lands, and even
Houston, once so poort that there were none
to do it reverence, struggles to build a
marrow gauge towards the northwest, while
Pierce's broad gauge must soon connect
with oneanother the two ancient capi9
tails of Texas. Meanwhile, that Houston may
not be transferred from its present site to
the present terminus of tine ship canal, six
miles away, temporary trackways will con-
meet the cOnVergent system of Texas rail
ways with the steamships wharves. People
may think the successful competition of
Houston with Galveston for worldwide
commerce impossible; but each breakwater
built at the Galveston bar opens paths Of
commerce to HI uston and if bankers, mer-
chants and railway managers of the interior
city utilize Buffalo Bayou as wisely and
effectively as EnglshnIen have the little
river Mersey, the shil ping Of ali nations
may yet fad safer and broader and deeper
roadsteads at Houston, even. under the
very shadow of the market house, than can
ever enrich Galveston. Not only is Hous-
ton revlvItied by the reproduction of rail
way building energies operttives west and
south of the city, but the route to New
Orleans by rail will he speedily opened
The effects of this road, within a very few
months, will be recognized even here in
Austin. People should not forget that
while New Orleans and Houston struggle
| IN porn Dlpta tho rnaI +L, +,,,,,
cities, Austi Is the terminus and confessed
beneficiary of the much needed highway
weston may weep when sea sickness may
be avoided by Texans going to New Orleans
and the East. From the South, from the
1 West, from Austin and the Northwest, from
East and Southeast, Houston contem plates
with infinite satisfaction, wonderful and
speedy accretions to progressive CONNER
cial greatness, and Texas congratulates the
old capital of the old republic halIowed by
memories ever cherished by Texan patriot
ism and illumlned first blythe .1one STAR
that shone with matchless splendor on the
birthplace of Texan freedom. Iol l
The International road, bridging Texas
six hundred miles from its northeastern to
its southwestern confines, will speedily touch
the capital giving it, with the Central road.
two routes to Eastern cities There is
money in New York at last accessible
to owners of Texan railways and it
oegins to flow IN small streams
along narrow channels even along the route
! of the International into Texas. 1t is not
alone in added increment of values given
property in towns and country by railways,
bur in this expenditure of vast sums along
! their progressive lines that renders them
most benefcent. Ignorance inveighs against
them and Rutabagaism raves when the
voice of locomotive proclaims the regen-
Grafton of people and pronounces in favor
Of instant revolution in habits, tastes and
Intelligence; but money grows weary. of
idieness enforced by folly of Federal law
givers, aud the International road drags It's
slow length along to u point within twenty
five miles of the capital of Texas. A mar
row gauge road, a palpable, unavoidable
necessity, from Austin TO Lampasas, is born
of prosperity partially relroduced,, aud
even the Texas Pacific road, that has
halted and hesitated for years at each vii
lsge. and city in Northern Texas, again
moves forward and backward towards Fort
Worth and towards Texarkana. The Red
River and Rio Gande Railway, with its
route from Red River TO Austin and other
points, has begun to build its line and win
do wonders in the development OF the coun,
try. t svss hns aa.i 5
Everywhere money first and population
next, the latter bringing wrecks of fortunes
swept away by polluted local governments
west of the Mississippi, find their devious