The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-08-07

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Dallas has accomplished mnrh in hen
short but active business oareer Five l
years since she was one of the prospers
Gus country villages Of FoSasi to-day
She stands one Of the leading CONNER
cial cities OF the southwest This great |
advance is due as much TO the oomple-
ton Of the Central railway, as TO any
other single cause II is rather singular
that as the railway age spoke her into
being M n commercial mart, railroads
at later period in her history speak
her doom, II is perfectly plain to even
the most superficial observer that If the
Dallas and Wichita Ia allowed to drag
along ion the next four years as II has
for the pOst--our people called upon to
pay taxes on the bonds, while McKin'
ney, Sherman Denison and Fort Worth
are being rapidly built up by the trade
which this road would empty into the
lap Of Dallas il the terminus OF the
Texas and Pacific remains but thirty
miles west Of us--the result will be fatal
to our commercial aspirationsi or, if not
this, we will be set back indefinitely,
in u career which now seems 80 certain
and so secure,
We appeal to our people, to the drec.
tory and contractors Of the Dallas and
Wichita, to the capitalists interested,
and to every influence which is now re-,
tarding the work on the road, to CONS
promise their adverse claims and com.
plete the work at once. When once
completed to Denton, the road will
have n present value sufficiently great
to amply secure every claim which now
exists, or can possibly come against her
Let this fact be ever present and let
each adverse claim-holder shut his eyes
to all other circumstances, forget his
riva'ries 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 Sowing his own best.
II is too bad to sacrifice the prospects
of Dallas upon 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.
ertyholders of the city should raise that
amount, pay OFF the claims and pat The
affairs of the road under an entirely
different management which would
complete ii 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 to proceed upon the theory that
the work is to benefit themselves alone
and that the public has only aplssin!
interest in it, and that but an insignIi'
cant one, They must part with Tia,
idea Mt once and either give up tn,
work into better hands or proceed tC
harmonic their interests and stop thei
disgracelul, foolish and boyish squad
blos. The people Of Dallas and thos,
ofthe counties to be served by the roa,
have been very patient Their patience
will eventually wear out Mt the expens
OF those who are now upon one preteX
and another retarding the completion
Of the road.
If the Kansas Rolling Mill company
will not put down any more iron than
they have without getting the entire
road into their hands, let them 20 tc
Halifax with their iron, and let the
directory 80 somewhere else and pur
chase the rails TO complete the track
It they have refused reasonable Sc
curity rendered in good faith, thi,
would only be serving them right.
These are homcly truths we have
been telling the people of Dallas. W.
regret that the situation is so grave, hut
it seems the truth must be told in ordel
that the proper steps may be taken tt
prevent the destruction of our trade t.
crafty tho foolish and selfish greed o
n few mon; men, too, who have al
their interests at safe distance iron
the town they mean to destroy, OF
carry their point, which, when carried
involves sum so insignificant tina
one wonders that it has threatened in
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