The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-06-25

process OF reasoning he picked up Tyl
lrom tho near the borders of LonisiSn
and cropped II down in the center
North Texas, ! can't comprehend
senators many of YOU have the ma
OF ieNas upon your desks, draw a lin
ron the southeast corner nf PAL
county on the east to the soutbwo,
corner OF Taylor county ON the was
running with thirty degrees of nort
latitude and you have North Texas h,
,oro YOU now cover up and hide IN
oalailce OF the State from your view
moment Imagine n orth Texas A Stat,
ana at what point would YOU select FL
her centre and capital asked a Sen,
tor that question this morning Ia west
erh Senator, who had no interest in I'M
natter he put his finger upon thcpomt
ana the word Dallas was there TIM
IN itself is sufficient ON the question ~
geographical centre, without going eve,
TO extreme Eastern Texas to find wher.
Tyler is located
Senators we claim the Sunran,
Court Tor Dallas for these reasons on,
population, our taxable property, oul
location, our facilities 70. travel ali fl,
excel those of Tyler as shown YOU now
what can Tyler say for herself
She has said by her representatives
the greatest good to the greatest mum.
Der J thank them for the word.
Inc gentleman from Nacogdoches and
the gentleman from Smith institute
comparisons between the two cities and
taIk OF the history the refinement and
the intelligence Of Tyler have moth.
ing to say against Tyler, ON the contra.
ry | have only unmixed admiration for
her and her noble citizens, and if | do
not now join these gentlemen in praises
10 her Roberts, her Hubbard and her
bonner ii is because these praises are
foreign to this question, and while
they would make fine freside
reading, or heroic verse, they can
not influence the question at issue
But would not think from compari.
son OF the two cities in any point of
view whether as to population, wealth,
intelligence or refinement. | stand not
here as the eulogist of Dallas. She does
not need praise, The gentleman has
said Tyler has q history. So has peb.
bic a history us old as the big round
earth, but it is pebble still And the
history of Dallas when written out will
be her best and grandest eulogy But
three short years ago alittle Texas town
upon the banks Of the Trinity, almost
automatically she is one OF the
proudest cities of the State. Her state
ly edifces spread out for miles over the
surrounding prairies, and her streets
crowded with the throngs of citizens of
all States and nations. She has out
stripped the fancy and put to the blush
the dream Of the immortal story teller
of the Arabian Nights entertainment.
The slave of the lamp could at Alladdins
bidding rear one palace in a single
night and he built but one.
Dallas builds her palaces daily, not in
silence and secrecy but in the glare of
MONDAY, and before an industrial
one palace but hundreds
| can sympathjse with the gentle
mans establishment that Dallas should
nave twenty thousand people. Coming
Is he does from region that is grown,
rom county where the accession of
me family by way of immigration is
he lhpMe Of wonder for a year, he can
not well understand the growth Of
titles and counties that nuesged 10y
rom five tosight hundred in n single |
Month But he tells us that we frontier
,eopic aye The children Of this section
hat they paid thei, t4NeS to protect lis
rom Indians. Yes true, We uag be |
our children, but is there not such a
hing O. parents getting into their dot
ge2 And hos often TO we see mum
ling, toothless dotard trying to com
landand rule the stalwart son who has
rown to q gronder and noblcr manhood |
nan the father over had?
You protected us by PAYNE taxes |
'es, spd my people paid their whole |
,rtunes, then labors and their lives for
our projections yes pYen the lives OF
heir wives and children. For quarter
f a century have they stood as d Wal
{ fire against these same savages and
ow that they have grown to u mighty |
eople, should they be denied their
ighits? Shall the child that has grown
) manhood be treated still as n child2
hall north Texas be held IN 6yerlast- !
lg pupilage and under the rule of the
asst? Again, implore you to give US
lstice-not to teach Us 10 abuse our
over make no threat, would not
e construed So but | do say that II you
his day deny what we ask you should
umish our people with good reasons for
hat denial, or the time may come, nay,
must and will when north Texas shall
rasp with n strong hand what she no"
duplicates as a right, and she may by
INJUSTICE be taught to do Is other have
S,,n l. an aud urngn moro Than her own, |