The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-08-11
A GLANCE AT THE SITUATION.

Dallas has accomplished much IN her
shor, hut active business career Fiye
years since she was one Of the prosperS
Gus country villages Of Texssi to,d,y
she stands one . the leading eommer
eisi cities of the seutllwest This great
advance i due rs much TO the compile
tion OF the Central railway, as to any
other single cause Il is rather singnl an
that az the railway age spoke her into
being as a commercial mart, railroads
at later period in her history sp. ak
her doom, Ii is perfectly plain to es en-
the most superficial observer that If he
Dallas and Wichita is allowed to drag
| along for the next four years as it has
for the past--our people called upon TO
pay taxes on the bonds, while Mex IN
ney, sherman, Denison and Fort Worth
are being rapidly built up by the trade
which this road would empty into the
lap OF Dallas if the terminus of the
Texas aud Pacific remains but thirty
I miles west of us--the result will be fatal
to our cosmereial aspirations or, if not
this. We will he set back indefinitely.
in career which now seems SO certain
and so secure,
We appeal TO cur people. to the direc-
tory and contractors of the Dallas and
Wichita. 70 the capitalists interes ted.
and TO every influence which is now re-
tarling the work on the road. to CONS
promise their adverse claims and com.
plete the work Mt once. When once
completed to Denton, the road viii
have present value sufficiently great
so amply secure every claim which now
exists or can possibly come against her.
Let this fact be ever present, and let
each adverse elaim-holder shut his eyes
to All other circumstances. forget his
riyalries and animosities, and assist
others to secure their claims by the
completion of the road, not because he
loves their interests so much, but be
cause he is thus serving his own best.
1t is too bad to sacrifice the prospects
Of Dallas upon a matter so trivial. The
entire indebtedness of the road, We are
told, does not reach one hundred
thousand dollars. Rather than have
it hang FIRE for three months longer
the merchants, business men and prop
evtyholders OF the city should raise that
amount, pay oil the claims and pat the
affairs OF the road under an en- .ireiy
different management, which would
complete it at once. The men inter
ested in the construction of the road
have apparently forgotten that they are
merely incident to the work They
seem 10 proceed upon the theory that
the work is to benefit themselves alone
and that the public has only passing
interest in it, and that bat an ms gnifi.
cant one. They must part with The
idea at once. aud either give up la,
work into better hands or proceed t,
harmonic their interests and stop theii
dissraceful foolish and boyish squab
bles. The people Of Dallas and thos.
Of the counties to be served by the roat
have been very patient. Their patieno.
will eventually wear ont at the expens,
OF those who are now upon one pretex
and another retarding the completion
Of tho road.
Tf the Kansas Rolling Mil co1npany
viii not put down any more iron thar
they have without getting the entir
road into their hands, let them go L
Halifax with their iron, and let tn
directory go somewhere else and pun
chase the rails to complete the track
II they have refused a reasonable Sc
curity rendered in good faith. thi
would only be serving them right.
These are homely truths we hav
been telling the people of Dallas. W
regret that the situation is 50 grave, bu
! it seems the truth must be told j n orde
that the proper steps may DE taken t
prevent the destruction of our trade {
gratify the foolish and selfish greed c
a few men men, too. who have al
: their interests at safe distance ffor
the town they mean TO destroy, o
carry their point, which, when earriet
involves a sum 50 insignificant tha
, one wonders that it has threatened IN
t terests so important