The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-25

ATTEST, most harmonious ard satisfactory
kind, and our people can wander where they
will throughout the limits of the known
world and clasp the hands of all peoples in a
fratarnal grasp. We, who have known what
war and its mi.eres, its perils, privations and
hesrtaches are, know how deeply thankful
We should be for this, know with what o pro-
found reverence we should offer up our ORR
sons and praise for the blessings of peace.
No demon of pestilence has brooded over our
land during the past year, with its halpies of
suffering and death reveling in the. shadow Of
its wing, hooking the WOO and the agony Of
the people, horrid mound builders from the
realms OF Eros, carrying mourning to countless
households, blanching the blooming cheeks
of youth with their breath, sitting forever
the energies of manhood and womahood with
their touch. For this freedom from epi-
dsmic the heart throbs OF gratitude cannot
be too strong. No geunt form of famine has
staked through the country, scizng upon
the vitals OF the people, ersconcing itself in
tho homes Of the land and rearing its sltars
of want and misery by their hearthstones.
When We remember the walls that were
waited 10 us on the bosom of the winds
across tho ocean from Irclaud's shores, where
strong men wandered from sheeling to sbeel-
ns, as wan spectres in their hunger, and
women, hol!owed.eyet End wistlul, craved
even u crust OF bread, with no tears yelling
from the dried up fountains of their carts
a. they gazed upon the pale, pinched faces of
their babes dying of starvation, what
volumes of heartfelt th.nkfulness should
ascend from our bosoms 70 tho Omnipotent,
all merciful Father, even rs the smoke arises
to heaven from the hunt oherings on tho
sscriloisl altar The god o. plenty has blessed
all our country from its one extreme to the
other Ceres and Pomona have smiled upon
our fields, and the cornueopia of a msgniil-
cent bounty has poured forth its corn, and
its wheat, and its cotton, and its sugar,
and its fruits, and its wine, and all our store
houses ere full, and with splendid surplus
to bring us in of the wealth Of other nations.
The blasts of winter may be- piercing and
chilling, but as people, we have clothing
and fuel to wsrm us snd food for our mouths,
and an excess, too, for the stranger in our
gates. The evidences of an enduring and az
increasing prosperity arc Visible on every
hand throughout the length and breadth Of
| the American union. Nowhere is there any
industrial institution idle; nowhere is there
lack of demand for the labor of willing heuds
Every manufacturing establishment of tbi:
country is busily at work on full time, and
with full force of operatives, finding incref =
ing sales for its productions, very
many of thom in different lines
with orders on hand for fulflmen'
months ahead There is TO capital locked
up anywhere fearful o. investment; no new!
of failures in business enter into the current
topics Of the day. TIL, entire country is 0
beehive of industry, Is ii we're, the worke.;
hurrying to and fro gathering the honey of {
rich prosperity from every flower ard bloom
in the fields, the plains and by the wayside
Thrift, contentment, heelth, peece, plenty
and development is the order of the day
Enterprise during the year Just past has beer
more active throughout the entire county
than it has been for yes7a and years agsne
Not only have railroads before in the course
of construction been completed, but hun
dreds of miles of new had have been built
and thousands laid out, and ere now pro-
gressirg. Arrangements whereby system
of railroads are to DO constructed in Mexico
to connect with our own system, have beer
perfected, and alJady work has virtually
commenced in the land Of he Aztec. There
tre now railroad Ines enough in the worlt
to reach eight times around thC
earth, costing Sl6,0o0OO0,0o0 and o
these lines the United States has the bulk
Science has been no !aggart during thu
twelve months that have gone to swell thu
rumber Of buried cycles If time, and every
achievement of science is to the advantage
Of man. Among there achievements, thi
country can justly lay claim TO that of th'
electric light, perfected by Edison. In th'
participation of all these blessings enumera
ted, our owA sts,e of Texas has been ia
vored beneficiary. Enterprise hos foun(
within her confines ripper field, perhaps
for Its energy than else here in tho union
and the benefits that must accrue to us by
the numerous miles Of railroad that hav,
been built and the new lines organized, al
Of which will open mp increased agriculture
and commercial interests, and bring US AZ
influx of immigration to assist in the Crane
development of the States latent resources
are SO immense that they exceed almsst tn,
widest conception even Of the imagination
Have we not then, pleasing retro
specw Can We not look back upol