The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-05-13
TINE TEXAS FRONTIER.

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Now since Mexican domestic affairs
hayequietly settled down on the normal
line of thleying and petty throat cut
ting, the usual irritatlons along our
Texan borders have commenced, We
are told by the press reporter NJ WASH
lnglon, that General Ord has orders 10
pursue the banditt on Mexican ground
II that Is necessary 10 effect capture,or
TO break up the eternal stealing Since
the Mexicans have been enjoying com
paratlye peace al home II Ia remarked
also, that the Indians on the staked
plains frontier have again been iancying
the scalp'locks and ponies of the bord'
erera, These things can easily be put
together, and result arrived at which
ought TO arouse our war department TO
something like activity, or at least ln'
duce it TO look after the marauders
when they pay Us these unwolcome
visits and before they return home,
Now that our brave soldiers are
relieved from the disgusting iduty of
white repression in the south, cannot
they bo used IN the more oongenial and
necessary work Of red repression on our
frontier2 II strikes US worry iorcibly
that while our delegation IN congress did
labor faithfully during tho last session
TO secure protection from tho national
power yet much moro might have boon
done. Instead OF Louisiana commissions
u iow Mexican and Rio Grande
commissions might have performed
work of infinite service TO the country.
Texas has expended immense sums,
both before and since the war, in per-
forming q work which ispeculiarly that
of the federal government, and she
ought TO be reimbursed. 1t IL only II
matter OF common honesty and fairness
that this shorld he done; but Texas
would gladly remit this just claim were
future efficient protection guaranteed,
We have wealth of productive coun.
try still laying idle and useless, stretch.
ing from the gulf on the south to the
Canadian on the north, which would
support and proiitably employ popu-
lation equal to that Of the entire state
of Pennsylvania, which is now, in con,
sequence Of the lack Of adequate pro.
lection, practically worthless and Of no
avail The employment of six rcgi,
ments Of cavalry, three of infantry, and
one Of artillery. on this line, would rem
der our settlements and all this vast
expanse of iabulously rich country rs
safe ms tho state named 1t does not
require statesman to determine that
the plain relult in view would justify
the employ ment of this force, and moro
especially MS we have men in service and
must pay them anyhow for service
which has as yet yielded no one, except
republican, partisans, the least odvan-
tage,
When the extra session does convene
we trust to hear that our representa-
tives are instant in season and out of
it, in urging this great measure upon
the government. There is millions in
it, both for Texas and the general
government, and the measure is one
which supplements and adds to the
other great necessity of our Texan bor-
der, the early completion of the great
national route, the Texas and Pacific
railroad, which would be- in and of
itself an immense bulwark of defense
for our weak and struggling border set
Elements. The future question among
our lexan congressman will not be,
who did or did not support the com
mission bill, or lillibuster to prevent its
passage, but who did or did not do all
in his power to secure the protection so
sadly needed, and the completion of
the Texas and Pacific railroad.
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