The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-04-06
"a FIGHT WHICH MEANS NO GOOD foR
DALLAS

N~AAH Api SptAic iAOttt- toib ttJtu tiDkA /
interest in the public welfare and |
proper regard for our position as pub |
lie journal.
That our worthy contemporary has
been imposed on by some designing
person, or that he has allowed his ap~
prshensions of disaster to the Dallas
and Wichita to shadow his unusually
clear Judgment aud to stimulate his
credslity to exaggerated proportions,
We think viii he manifest upon mild
criticism OF the article, and few sug
aestioBs which naturally grow ont of its
attentive perusal.
The general implication OF the whole
is, that certain Boston capitalists had
gone SO far as 10 deposit 1900 900 in
bank to be invested in the securities OF
the Dallas and Wichita railroad COM
pany. ard had sent Ne Loguees as their
attorney TO this city to investigate the
condition, etc, 30 as to enable them to
act in,slligently in making such in
yestment
This attorney, says the Commercial,
shook the dust of our streets from
his feet, and left the city in great dis
gust Disgust at what Not at the
misstatements in the pamphlet of Mr.
Henderson, alluded TO. which the Coa,~
'"ereiai says the capitalists had some>
thing To DO in getting up. and ,oere
therefore prepared for any shock sohicA
might haze been occaSio,le,i by its lack Of
truth fitissss
This is mild but plain, and is nothing
less than an assertion that these eapi.
tatists were in completely with Nj Hen
derson in publishing fslsehoods to the
people of Boston to allure them into
this enterprise Not only this deliberS
ate and concerted fraud is attributed to
body Of men whom the Commercial i.
pleased 10 dignity with the name OF
Boston capitalists, but their imputed
attorney who came here stated that
he dad not care Tor the few overstate.
lnents made in the publication" =
bat when he saw the editorial pub
| lished in CHE HEE,Ln OF TUESDAY he
concluded - have nothing more to 10
with the enterprise Now that edito-
rial Is nothing more or less than an cx-
posure OF 81 the few overstatements
IN the Henderson pamphlet Mr.
Loguees aud his principals cared
nothing for the falsehoods SO long a.
they were concealed, but as soon as
they we're made public, Mr. Loguess j.
taken with disgust and leaves. A man
who lies is commonly much more con-
eerned when it is proven on him, thar
| when he tells the lie, and the THE
more apt to be disgaStea when the theft
is disco, cred than when he committed
it. The Commercial adds Mr.. Loguee-
stated that they (the Boston capital
ists) felt that the grant OF land secured
them sufficiently, and were willing t.
advance money on the road in order Il
colonize large number of settler,
along the line.
II this be true, there was then moth.
ing in our article or in the misstate,
ments of the Henderson pamphlet, 0,
even in the factions of which the Con-.
uasrciol speaks, to have deferred them
for the land grant is fact independent
of all these, and If this could satisfy H..
Boston capitalists, and their sttorne,
had had the sagacity OF any mar
of ordinary good sense, who can read tn,
English langu age, he would have foune
it out. Had he done this, and writer
TO those lac pretended to represent. I,
furnish Mr. Henderson with none,
enough to finish the road to the twent,
mile post by the Both of June and the,
had done it, the land grant would hay.
been secured, and. according to Mr.. 10
guees, they would have got all the,
wanted. We publish this much of oul
article in part for their information. /
there be any such capitalists in Boston
and we venture the monition TO them
that their attorney, Mr.. Loguees, was
little hasty in shaking the dust of Dali
las from his feet, and if this land i,
their object, thai little effort guild &c
by common sense would have ensblec
him to assure them that they could ge
the grant OF lands.
But we do not believe that this Mr.
Loguees was an attorney of Boston cap
italists, or that any Boston capital I'll
ever sgreed to invest $500, 600 in an en-,
terprise which they themselves admit
ted had TO be bolstered by exaggeratet
and multiplied falsehoods.
This is too much of the complex ior
and odor of the oveystatemsats (fo,
which lies though they be, and lies o
the most dangerous and odious charac
ter, because intended to deceive and t.
cheat whole communitiesl Mr.. Lo
guees and his employers cared so Httl,
until they were exposed. but which
when exposed. were so potent in ex
ploding all their proposed plans and in
vestments
The innocence which accepts such
statements as these of Mr.. Loguees q
true, without some twicthings of mere
dulity is As marvellous as that OF tn.
heather Chinee"
There are in the large cities, espe,
ciallv New York and Boston. raiIr oac
attorneys who make this specially
These are the counselors to whom eapi.
talists in those cities go to consult, v her
they propose To invest in railroad enter
prises Massachusetts, alone has owe,
two hundred millions of dollars in.
vestedin railroads in other states, pene
trating nearly every state in the union
These attorneys go to the most dis tan
states for capitalists, and are paid laf gel,
for so doing. They understand theil
business. and when their employer
contemplate an Investment in rail
road enterprise their lawyers 20 To tn.
locality, and usually with the aid o
some resident lawyer of established
reputation, whom he associates viii
him. investigates the charter, am end,