The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-28
TEXAS SHOULD SPEAK.


the Boston Post OF the Dist, and it is
quite suggestive il its way and contains
lessons for both Texas and the city
which, for half century, has been
called the Athens Of America as il
was for many years the financial center
Of the republic
Texas should speak with louder
voice, for there are three hundred more
American workmen about TO start fol
Australia in search Of fortunes The
same brawny capital invested in Texas
will bring better returns than in any
British colony in the world
Had Boston used the money in Texas
with which she rebuilt Chicago in y
instead Of now reaping less than five
per cent, per annum, she would be re-
ceiying twenty five, and have provided
labor paying healthy labor, to all the
operatives she has, or who could have
left, not Boston alone, but Massachu
sets, and, indeed, all New England
1t cost Boston not less than fifty mil
lions TO iebuild the burnt district Of
Chicago. Fifty millions in cotton mills
tanneries and shoemaking establish.
ments in Texas would net to the in
vestors not less than twelve million
five hundred thousand dollars annu,
ally Let Boston chew the proposition
a little and see what comes OF IT,
Texas could do but little with three
or five hundred spinners, boot makers
or forgemen unless she had the capital
to build the works necessary for THEN
profitable employment Texas should
speak to Boston, and that in louC
voice but it is to her capitalists frs
that she must address herself. Hereto
fore there has been no difficulty in the
way Of getting capital to build railroads
Both the North and Europe have beer
lavish with their money in this respect
but as yet the smallest Of dividends hav,
been paid, Indeed, the uncertainty o
these returns has operated to chill al
supply from that source
Such would not be the case with cap
ital invested in legitimate manufacture
ing enterprises 1t is claimed that fue
is too high, that water power is neces
sary to enable us to compete with Fal
River, Directors of this school do no
fail to remember that the transporta
ton Of the raw material from Texas {,
Massachusetts, and the manufacture,
goods back to Texas again, costs NOR
than the difference between steam ant
water power. Again, they say tina
labor is too high here Let mills b
erected and see how long it will be be
fore they are abundNntly supplied with
Eastern spinners at the same figure
that it costs the Eastern manufacturer
Simply because operatives can subsis
here at one.half the cost, for all til
prime necessities Of life, that they cal
in New England
Another, and more Humanitarian
view of the subject can be taken
About three>liiths of the operatives il
the great mills in Massachusetts, hay,
the consumptivc faint If they remain
at home the early death is n matter 81
time only and that Of the brieIest posi-
BILE span. Two-iitths of those tainte,
with the consumptiye habit, would il
our milder and more genial climate
soon entirely recover.
With facts such as these plainly be
fore them, now that slavery is dead
and labor dignitied and honorable, VIII,
is it that some of the superabundan
idle capital Of Boston is not employed
in this rich field? viii not the Pos
speak out to them too? BY such
course it will serve three separate bu
kindred interests 1t will do kline
thing for Texas, kind thing for CAPT
tai, and a glorious thing for the thou
sands of despairing artizans who sadly
expatriate themselves for the sake o
bread each year.