The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-04
AFTER THE BATTLE.

cleared away, and we can look about Us over
the VIZ, elk and ruin of the field, we who are
defeated can see many mistakes that were
made by the generals who led our forces, and
can can perceive where many weak places
were in the enemys line, which if we hid
charged, We could have broken and thrown
them into dismay and rout. But let us in
dulge in no ordinations. Let us rather 10 :
get the past, or if remembering, do SO only
with sigh, and turn our thoughts all on the
future. Fifteen years have come and gone
since General Lee surrendered at Appomatox
courthouse and the southern flag was folded
forever. They nave been fifteen years of toll
and pi.vation and disappointed hopes to the
people of the cuth, for their beginning
found us despoiled Of our all, poor to ABB
ject penury in purse, our fields
laid W ste, our homes desolated, and devas-
tation mailing gloomy all the lend. With
energy we went to work to build anew our
fortunes and again to surround ourselves
with the possessions OF earth. In measure
We have been successful, but there is much
yet to do. We have made some mistake,
and the gravest one OF these has been our
interest in politics. We have thought too
much about, and hoped too much from, the
supremacy Of those principles that actuated
the trainers Of the constitution, and that are
the natural outgrowth ofthat and
in doing 50 we have neglected too much our
material prosperity, our advancement and
development in those things which will
make us great commercially, agricultuTally
and financially. Let us now think less OF
politics. Let us pattern even al or the pee
pie Of the north, and give heed to the best
means of obtaining wealth and of making
our section industrially great and strong, and
then we will DO able to do MS
they dc control politics with capital. We
don't mean by that to purchase so many
votes, s' cattle are bought, but to be able to
bring the weight of capital as represented in
manufactures, railroads, canals, steamboats,
and mercantile pursuits, to bear upon the
policies and issues at stake n campaign
Let us go bravely to work, now, to build up
the SOUTH to fill it with.peoplo to till its
lands and multiply its products. The
northern people will have Protective tariff,
thew have voted for and elected Garfield and
Arthur because they desire u protector Of
home industries, and since it ia upon us, let
us ..of the south prof by it il we can. We
can have cotton mills and wooden manufac-
torit and foundries and machine works
and rolling mills, and let us have them. To
bling the matter directly home t. our peo-
pile here in Texas, we say to them that our
state, an empire in itself, with every resource
ANY nation has, either inehoate or partially
developed, is not affected in any way by
the result Of any presidential
election, no matter what that result is. We
have, for instance, within the state, an i'm,
migration movement inaugurated and being
put into active operation. If this undertak-
ing is fostered, encouraged and aided in every
way possible, and il the people of every
county will get up similar local organizes
lions, we can have tide OF immigration from
Europe and from the older states of this un-
ion, pouring across our borders in quest of
homes on our millions of acres OF vacant
lands, and in another decade we will have
more than doubled our population.
Give to Texas, people, and you give her the
means of largely ruling the destinies of this
union in all OF its policies. We have terri
tory enough of the most fertile lands for go
100000 of people and then have room to
spare. Let Texas become populated as New
York is in proportionto area, and the state
OF New York will be as insignificant
beside her in all the elements
that make state great and powerful as
Rhode Island is beside New York. With
properly directed efforts we can secure
thousands and thousands of immigrants, and
without expense. Let us study to develop
our resources, and TO secure about us those
adiuncis of trade and commerce that will in
crease our wealth and strength. Texas now
has, three thousand or more miles of railroad,
but she needs ten thousand right now. By
encouraging railroad enterprises and aiding
them when 1t is opportune to do so, we can
In reasonable length of time have these
ten thousand miles. They will bring us more
population and be mighty levers in aid Of
the progress of the state in all that is mate.
rial. We grow cotton in every portion Of
Texas, and why can we not estab.
hsh cotton mills ard print mills a, they
have in New England and in Geor-
g'a and other southern s,atesS Wherever
there is cotton mill properly conducted
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