The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-14

Of Galveston and highways for Ia commerce.
Instead ofany section Of the State, or any
part of any section, feeling hostility to-
wards Galveston, everyone would have re-
joiced In her prosperity and felt that her
progress was their progress, We do not
wish TO bo understood M laying all tho blame
Of tho existing state Of affairs upon that city,
nor of saying what wa have said In any spirit
of hostility or Of eaptlou8 censuro, We feel
a pride In Galveston, and We have faith In
her eventual outcome yet IT her
business mon are true TO them
selves and set about earnestly
to retrieve tho errors of the past, Tho press
of tho State which hAs upon It II grave re-
sponsibilIty, and which should rise above tho
folly, the peurilty Of sectional lealoualcs,
and tho chickering's and contentious engen-
dered thereby, ia in no little degree to blame
in this matter Especially Is this so Of the
press Of Galveston aud Houston. They
have fostorcd u sentiment Of rivalry between
tho two cities and INDUCED in many childish
examinations and recrimnatlons. Neither of
these two cities Is In the way Of the other
for their interests aro in no sense
Houston Is destined TO b. n large
city, but she must be II manufacturing place
Galveston can never DO in her way in this
particular, for she can never have water for
manufacturing purposes. Galveston must
depend upon commerce alone, She can be
n great seaport. Houston certainly can not
hope to be, therefore why should there bo
any spirit of rivalry between the two places.
Let Galveston conciliate the Morgan and
Pierce interests with generous concessions,
and let her draw to herself tho trade
Of every section of the State, rs she
can with proper effort do, by making
Il TO the interest Of those 80 tlons
t. traffic with hor, and she will grow and
flourish, and the sections will say to our Rep
resentatives and Senators in Congress, "Se-
cure for our seaport the appropriations she
needs TO improve her harbor and stop irtter-
ing away the quota of Texas on improctica-
BILE projects here and there on our coast'
and they will do it. Let Galveston forget to
be Jealous Of Houston, of Dallas Of San An
tonic, or OF any other place, but rather re-
joice in their prosperity, for San Antonio Is
and will be the great inland
city Of Western Texas. Dallas is
and will be the commercial center of North
Texas, as Jefferson is and will be Of Eastern
Texas, and Houston and San Antonio will
develope into the manufacturing centers of
the State. Let all these cities feel pride in
each other, and be glad Mt the prosperity of
each other, and lot the whole State feel n
love and yencration for Galveston as the
magnificent seaport and trade center, as chill.
dren feel love and veneration for their
mother; love and veneration that attracts
them 10 her, and overfows in tenderness, and
that maniiest' itself in joy at her JOY
and pride =. in her pride. The mother living,
the children may occasionally quarrel, but
still her prcs6ceS and influence keep the
family bound; together dead, they wander
away and follow after strange gods regard
less OF family unity or UNION. SO will it be
with Texas, we fear, if its several sections
havo no focalizing point to hold them in
holy bonds of fraternal communion. Let us
beware of the interested temptations offered
outside our limits which find only to power
full adiutants in the systems which now
draw North Texas too far northwardly, and
Central and Western Texas too far easterly
for the true integrity of the State.
II this be not done and a seaport secured for
Texas to create real unity of commercial
interests, unanimity of kindly sentiment,
that germ of disintegration already develop
ing may resultin division of the State and
tho Acknowledgement of this the grandest
commonwealth in the Union, and instead of
Texas remaining one mighty whole, with a
power irresistible, she will be cut up into
four or five weak little States, without politi-
cal or CONNER al strength, without position
in the galaxy of States, without influence,
with none 50 poor as to do them reverence.
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