The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-17
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the best commercial fertilizers ten BUSH
els Of corn He begins with the idea
that if he has no natural advantages
that he must impress others Of equal in
ducements to gain the requisite popuIa'
ton to make sustain and permanently
establish the town or city proposed. II
his site Possesses natural advantages
all the better, rs he not only ntiIlzos
these but gathers, by his s0gacity ana
enterprise ns many others to his ana NJ
it is possible to acquire from any and all
other quarters. II he can raise corn,
wheat lax and Tobacco he will not only
encourage rs many other intelligent and
slilIul cultivators Of these products as
possible to settle upon all the unoccu'
pied lands in the range of his interest,
but encourage likewise the highest
style of their productions, and the read
lest and cheapest transportation OF
these raw products, and their results
after manufacture in his own town, to
to the best market elsewhere, He
gathers, yes gathers, not by sit
ing complaccntly for others to find him
and to learn by accident Of his place
and its advantages, but he goes amt
secks-yes, seeks, and makes it matter
of business, not only to let other pco-
pie who may Subscrvc bis interests 10y
their capital, skill and enterprise, know
where and what his place is, but to com
pei them, by argument and his pcrsIs'
tent presentation Of his place his town,
his special locality and its inducements
and advantages to plant themselves
and their all in such community,
He continues thus to seek people and
capital, and to encourage the establish
ment of cotton, WOODEN and grain and
paper mills furniture, wagon, shoe and
hal Factories and all these productive
industries which not only gave con
slant, reliable and rcnuncmtiyc en-
ploymcnt to the citizens of his own city,
enabling them to acquire and cmbellish
their homes to build and sustain first
class schools, to erect comfortable and
tasteful church cdilices; to pave, gutter,
sewer and light their streets; to afford
public libraries, lay out and maintain
parks, and other enterprises contrlbu-
ting to their individual comfort and
public welfare,
He thus gathers and gathers, until the
city becomes SO populous and money 50
abundant that the surplus OF both must
90 ont and start another city They do
not, however leave the first wreck
and the appearance Of n deserted town
of tents" but one with the strong,
broad, solid foundations of having
been laid for a future and not
for to-day only. Hence the glazing
difference between the cities of the
North aud the South
One starts with the purpose and effort
to turn to the largest account every re-
source of the "natural advantages sdle
rounding him, and then casts about to
absorb and utilize the advantages pos
scssed but neglected by others; the
other simply lets his town or city create
and adopt itself to the demands of the
trade and traffic arising from the raw
products of an lily cultivated and
sparsely populated territory of natural
advantages, and when this is eX-
hausted, being no other resources OF
profit or of its future promise even, old
and young begin to strike out, and
cmigrato for some ireshcr and untricd
field, and what do they leave behind
that deserve the name of cities, if moth
ingness and excellence is to be meas
ured by great populousness, and solid
and permanent value of real property,
superahandnnce of money capital, with
MI the elegancies and luXuries thereof
When will our Southern people change
the programme, and do in these re-
spccts MS Others have and are still doing
viii ever the people of Dallas determine
to have here city indeed and in fact.
4 spot surrounded with natural advan.
tagcs" of rarcst quality and extent, and
which, if awaited of and utilized to their
utmost capacity, and if to these of her
own were, by the proper effort brought
to bear the still more distant territory
of like natural advantages, and those
of the surplus population, capital, enter
prise and skill Of other and more dis.
tunt States and counties how certainly
could there be founded and developed
u city of one or two hundred thousand
population--and in which present prop.
crty holders would feel such confidence
in the soundness and security of their
Investments rs to inspire confidence in
others seeking good and safe employ
ment for their surplus capital II such
would give intreascd and beautifully
growing values to their estates, they
must cease to hug the delusion of mat.
url advantages" and themselves make
or bring Others to make, them all the
most largely conducive to that end.
Building stores, warehouses and
dwellings, to accommodate trade" may
look like city ,building-may, and does
OF courc, pay, often for an uncertain
period, big rents to landlords; but the
moment the trade fever is over and
the natural advantage" have expended
their hallucinating powers--away away
goes tenant and establishes himself on
the front to become the cxacting land
lord to his former, but now less fortu.
nate, landlord who made Investments
based upon the false and unstable idea
of trade" alone.
Can few individuals Of commun.
ty build II city, Can u few be expect
ed, and, would it be tight and just for
them to give and to do all, that may be
necessary to lay the foundation and
level development, wealth and perm0.
nent prosperity to the property of each
individual OF the whole community ,
that may enlarge the border and in
crease the profits Of their trade that
enhances the taxable wealth of u wide
area tributary to it, that increases
banking capital and the volume of de.
posits on all classes and branches of
business improved. Can, the
majority expect the few, and those gen.
orally too of the renting classes rather
than the proprietors of property, to do
the main work and pay the main cost
OF acquiring the necessary influences OF
capital andpopulation, to make of Dal
los u great cityY Can the citizens of
Dallas afford to rotreatY win they re.
treat or stand at this, "tbe last ditch
and iortily for certain victory No
time to wait--look out upon your pres