The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-20
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH.

ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH.
At a meeting held last evening in the
Grand. Windsor parlors, it was determined
by some Of our solid men that the Chicago,
Texas & Mexican Central road must and
would be pushed through. To-day's work
will doubtless tell the tale. Either Dallas lie
to progress or to recede, and that very quickly
to be determined. Wehave faith in the spirit
of enterprise. in tho sagacty of her cit zens,
and we believe they are now thoroughly
aroused to the paramount importance, yea to
the absolute necessity of building the road in
question, and not merely this, but in building
it at the very earliest moment Every resi-
dent is interested in the undertaking, for if
neglected, then the north and south
roads to the east of us and
to the west of us will pass
through the very sections which are now
tributary 10 US and from which we have in
the past drawn our business. And if the
wholesale merchants are interested in this
phase of affairs, none the less are the retail
erS. We are aware the latter assume that
with railroad TO Cleburne, for instance,
on the west, or to, say Sulphur Springs, on
the cast, they will lose much of their present
trade, for the reason that their present pa
irons will have facilities Of purchasing at
wholesale figures on the spot, or AT low rates
Of freight through our wholesalers here. But
this view is limited. Its extension exhibits to
us more alarming fact lying in tho short
beyond, viz, the trade lost anyhow,
not merely to them but to the city. If the
Galveston & Santa Fe railroad pass
through Cleburne and all that por-
ton, will not the business fall
to Fort Worth or to Galveston? What is
true as to Cleburne is for like consideration
and by parity of reasoning true Of points
northwest of us and north of the Fort on or
near tho line of tho Deniscn, Fort Worth &
Mexican road as proposed. Also is tho
same true Of places TO the northeast and
southeast of us from similr causes. Now
all this possible and threatening evil can be
forever arrested and averted by the censtruc-
ton OF the Cleburne & Paris road. Nor ia
this all. Every merchant here is deeply in
terested in the matter o: low freights. Just
beyond Paris comes road from st. Louis,
now built 10 this ,ido of Fort Smith, and
with which this Mexican Central com.
pany are in immediate and close
alliance. The connecting of the lines
furnishes to Dallas n competing route TO the
markets Of the country. With the required
amount of money raised, this same company
propose to erect their round houses and
machine shops in this city, This must bring
labor and increased population into our
limits, and this means larger demand for
houses for workmen who are to build those
structures, and for those who may be EN-.
road. 1t means more business 10
the retail grocery and to the dry goods and
hardware and the other departments of our
trsje 1t means increased activities in al
spheres. 1t means add tionsl people on the
lands snd the farms oil along the route, snt
their further demand upon our merchant!
for supplies hence and products to be ship
ped to us. Surely these are views and con
siderations that appeal to the practical
business mind of Dallas for prompt and con
summating action. We fully appreciate the
fact that we have already spent consider
able sum of money on other roads, but W,
have certainly mad the quid pro QUO as tn,
consequent centre railroad point of all
Texas, save Houston salone. But in any
event what is past is..past and has no rSls
vancy to the argument in hand. The priz
now.to be secured, the play to be made il
first to make available what we alread,
posses, and second by this one, final railroad
expen liture to. fix the status Of Dallas for
ever. This is the true position. Letus real
ize it, let us be equal to the duty of tn,
hour. Let tho enterprise of Dallas b,
thus advertised to Ii, world. Let the future
nap-mskcr DO compelled to represent thi,
city after the fashion of spider. web Indian
apols. This done we will turn our attention
to car and railway machinery factories, to tn,
construction Of ready-mads houses for GU
now immigrants, aud to other manufactures
that will keep our retail store, as beehive
from morning until night. We hold nov
our destiny in our own hands. Then let IL
before this evenings sun goes down, with s
,ong,pull, strong pull and a pull all together
have beyond the possibility of dou6t the
assurance that our stronger Dallas Of to-day
in the small donation sum of $4,000, is moi
behind the teebler Dallas Of the past in tn,
liberal sum of 100000, and the which it
was that so help,d to make her what she lie
Jour SOUTHERN SAVAGE"