The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-10
THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC BILL WHAT
WILL FOLLOW ITS PASSAGE.


WILL FOLLOW ITS PASSAGE,
Tho eyes Of Texas, the south tho
nation, aud indeed chrlslendom, have
been anxlously turned 10 this great
enterprise for years, Even far oil lnN
dia, tho haay islands of the east, the
aoot-begrlmed forgemen OF Sheffield
and Manchester, ara directly and per
sonally interested in tho passage OF the
pending bill No single man or inler'
est ON the civilized earth will be Injured
by II, but all will BIO benefited directly
At once people from all parts Of the
earth will pour in and settle upon is
line, A vast, almost llmltless expanse
Of waste will AZ once be filled by an
active, intelligent and remunorotlyely
employed people The eternal silence
Of the desert will soon be broken, and
II will become vocal with the pleasing
sound Of earnest men nj labor, where
remuneration win surely attend and
happily supplement the hour OF toll
The unemployed and distressed laboreTs
from all sections Of the country viii
flock 10 the line, aud In assisting In ilS
construction find bread for their little
ones, aud u future competence Tor them
selves. The miners and lorgemen OF
Pennsy lyania viii be Immediately taxed
~ their utmost 10 supply the iron nee
esaary TO equip the road, They have
been comparatively unemployed Tor
years and the wolf has made his lair
uncomiortably near tho Impoverished
threshold, The passage OF this bill
will bid him begone, Tho locomotive
works of New Jersey, Piitsburg
and Baltimore will nj once set their
thousands of operatives At work, Mon
ey will pour into Texas from every di'
rection. Capital will seek aud find
promising Investment on the line, and
indeed, In every nook and corner of the
state, Money will be paid out by the
company on the ground, and in sulli-
cient amounts TO nj once sensibly affect
general business. The night of the dis-
aster which settled down upon ~ in
1873, will be dispelled at once by the
bright ray shed by tho dollars of the
Texas and Pacific, Atonco the prohibN
iling rates on the Union and Central
Pacific route will tumble, and the tide
OF the worlds commerce to the east, will
be turned in this direction. Thus, even
the most hostile power operating against
the hill, will be directly benefited, and
the people OF the northwest who have
fought rs so bitterly, will have better
times forced upon them, even against
their wishes. The Pennsylvania dcles
cation in congress, split and divided as
IL Ia on this measure, can each and every
one Of them return TO their homes, and
tell the people that at last mine,
furnace, forge and workshop must be
put in order TO commence the almost
forgotten task of banding continent
with iron, and initiating another err,
Of mechanical prosperity upon perma.
nent and enduring basis,
With all these reasonable probabili,
ties before them, is it moi strange that
there should he one man 80 affected
either directly or remotely to DO found
to oppose III Is it not strange that the
money of the vast monopoly Of the
Union and Central route can 80 oper-
ate as TO blind men to the chance here
offered to lift from the country II bur-
den Of costly inerlness which has we'll
nigh destroyed it and not the slightest
risk to be run by any one, the govern,
ment included2 II is time this money
power We're dissolved it is time the
distresses as we'll as the advantage d
the people and government be heard in
the adjustment of this matter. Let
the present congress demonstrate to the
country that it can neither be bought
nor inundated when such an advan,
tage lies 30 plainly before it and the
country Let us have the road, anc
the prosperity consequent both upon it,
building and completion, in time tc
serve the generation wise enough /,
form the stupendous project