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

The unity of Texas must DO dear 70 every
citizen of the State who takes m Interest IN
its prosperity, and who feels pride in 'na'
atent greatness gradually being Developed
Whom wa look about us we think we discern
a germ of disintegration that is alarming
Sectional jealousies have existed ana "Iss
still exist, that give life to and that
are infusipg vigor into this germ 10
coma bluntly to our subject, Texas needs
seanort in which all the State can
take pride and upon when all
the sections of the State can depend for the
furtherance of their commercial interests
Galveston is the one little seaport that TINS
yreat State can boast. Galveston is hsnd-
some city, substantially built, and its business
men are gentlemen of means, Ola ialr STARE
Of enterprise and of intelligence, but they
have made well-nigh fatal mistake. Ihey
have relied too much upon natural adVant,
ages, and so relying, they first antagohlzed
Mr.. Charles Morgan, who wanted certain
wharf facilities for his steamers, when
being denied him, he was driven oil from
Galveston. He went up Buffalo bayou and
built wharf of his own, and took vastly Of
his carrying trade away from the Island CITY,
They antagonized Mr.. Pierce, OF the San An
tonic railroad, and he formed sort OF COAL.
ton with Mr.. Moagan to the detrment oil
Galveston. Antagonizing these gentlemen
their influence and their railroads and steam
ships have been used with distressing elect
against that port. Furthermore, the business
men Of Galveston, with ample means
70 do the trade of the entire
State, have failed to secureit because th'y
have omitted to patronize the interior press
or otherwise properly proclaim the iasillies
for trade, and they have neglected to give
to interior merchants those terms and ndvant-
ages they could SO easily have given. We
conceive of no good reason in the world why
Galveston should not be able to sell to
North, East West and South Texas, goods
just as chesply and on just as liberal
terms as do st. Louis, Chicago and
New Orleans. II is the fault Of Galveston
that the trade of Texas is not centered at
that place, instead of being scattered abroad
among strangers, among cities in other states
to build them up and make them prosper
oua, when, if concentrated at 'the city by
the sea," it would make it queen indeed
a gem, amid the sparkling waves of the
Mexican ,Gulf-an honor and glory to
Texas, the pride Of every citizen OF
the State. But Galveston has
been negligent; she has closed her eyes to
the opportunities at her hand, and over
whelmed with the cgotism that she was the
only seaport worth the name on the coast OF
Texas, she has suffered that tide which II
taken at its full food would have led on to
fortune and to glory, to begin to ebb, and now
she must battle against the stream. And in
her negligence she has done the whole State
an injury, for in great measure she it was
that generated this germ Of disintegration
which is now alarming. We sec all over the
State the development of a railroad system
that is tending to divert the trade of Texas
from the State, where it should remain in its
bulk, to st. Louis, to Cincinnati, to Chicago,
to New Orleans. For instance, the trade OF
North Texas, which is immense, seeks St.
Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati, when it
would have gone direct to Galveston had
that city only plucked the plum when it was
ripe; had her merchants shown the liberality
and the enterprise to have said to the people
ofths section 1--WE will supply your wants on
IA good terms il not better than
thcy can be supplied anywhere, and
we viii furnish you market for your prod.
ucts as good as any market" 1t could have
been done, and North and West and East
.Texss-the entire State, would have gladly
comet to Galveston under those circumstances,
would have gone there in preferences to any
other place. Then the railroad system ofthe
State would have looked to Galveston as the
Mecca ofits hopes instead of abroad, and its
connections from abroad would have been
Feeders to the rift and greatness