The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-21

not admit and afford anchorage for vessels OF
all sizes and the consequence is that the bulk
of the goods imported into the country for
aalc all over it enter by way ofnorthern ports
and the duties are paid into northern custom
houses.
The south is a new country comparatively
speaking and It's people have always been an
agricultural not a mercantile people. They
have been content to produce, and selling the
yield of their fields, have bought of the
northern merchants their cotton goods, their
wooens, their sill s, their fine wines and
liquors, their cigars, in fIct all theimported
goods they desired. The general govern
ment until the last few years has never ex'
pended more than the merest pittances for
the improvement of southern harbors and
southern rivers, while it has lavishly
given to the north its millions every year,
yetthe Troy Times says, the South gets arg-
or percentage for improvements from the
government, on tho money it pays into the
treasury than the north gets. The Times IT,
nores tho millions and millions
the north wa, getting when the south got not
q cent it lorgets that the harbors and rivers
of the north have already been improved to
as great an extent as money will go, and
need now only to DO kept in repair, as it
were, while those OF The south are just begin
ming to be improves, The Times forgeis
that the general government gave in suosi'
dies to the Union and Central Pacific rail-
roads, all in the interests of the northern
states, millions of dollars and millions of
land, while il refused to give to the Texas ~
Pacific road because it would benefit the
southern states, even tho strength of its
name, its endorsement The Times forgets
that the general government has always from
tho beginning of legislation up to
date, legislated against the south
in favor of the north, by passing
protective tariff laws, that the cotton
mills, the wooden mills, the boot and
shoe factories, the foundries, the rolling
mills and all the other numerous industries
of tho north might become monopolies to
grow rich ut the expense of the south and
aaunt their power of wealth into the faces
of a long suffering people. The receipts OF
customs at the north may BIO more than
twenty times what they arc in the south, but
it is because the north has the ports, and her
merchants import the goods to sell in great
measure to the southern people. And the
70 ,eips Tor internal revenue may be IN the
north nearly four times AS great us they are
in the south, but it is because Of
donser population and the greater
facilities for the establishment of
that class Of manufactures and those lines
of business from which tho internal revenue
is received. The wonder is that the southern
people, having been do;poiled by the fortunes
of war, of all their property, and left penni.
less, well.nigh homeless, their households
darkencd with tho shadows of grief and
mourning, and hope almost dead within their
hearts; with fifteen years of oppression from
the party in power; Of malice towards
them; of hatred for them; of ISLANDERS and
abuse upon them-it is a wonder that they
arc able to have any customs receipts, any
Internal revenue whatever, to turn into
tho federal treIsury. But from the
ashoJ end ruins of their desola,ed homes
despite the wrongs done them, and the out.
RACES heapcd upyn them, and the obstacles
of every kind thrown in their way by the
Rep. .blicsn party through its leaders, the
southern people have arisen and overcome
difficulties that giants might have quaed
before, and today stand forth mighty in
their strength and, like Ajax Of old, they de-
fly the malice and hatred and ISLANDERS of
those who arc actuated by sectionalsm, and
mean to pursue the even tenor of their way,
building up their fallen fortunes, developing
their section and its resources, doing all in
their power to advanc, tho general good OF
the whole country, and to make it strong
and great, and achieving all of prosperity
and happiness it is possible TO achieve.