The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-25

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eSpeo, ia be peraepuble In the greatest com
mercai 10 w Of this great State, What bus
lneis there i done iooms TO be ftlessly done
and there il q painful absence
Of TINT cheerful, hopeful look In
the faces Of proprleIoH md employees
that are born ofproiperity mud Fixed future,
ltlsa fat that Galveston, during the past
season, fell near tseuty thousand bales of
cotton short Of her receipts tho previous sea.
son, THIS i due Ia part II ID true, 10 the
fhorinea Of the crop IN those portions Of tic
state which have always shipped ~ Calves,
ton, but II d not wholly due 10 that cause II
i n lamenMble fact that the leland CITY Is
losing her grip, Houston, content with the
railroads she now has, hRs entered the lists
for commercial prelcrment, aud by slron-
uous efforts has secured good portion
OF the cotton that would otherwise have gone
10 Galveston and Houston Is still 10 the fore
and the coming season will make still greater
efforts,
The great need Of tho Island Clgis
pgRP WATER
And freedom from the wharf monopoly.
Her shallow bur- and this deyil-llsh Of u
Wharf company that selzos upon everything
for its rapacous nav, ARE mpping her vitals
and eating slowly but surely into her very
existence, Tho deep water problem can be
solved but the business men aud property
owners Of Galveston must solve II for them
selves, | doubt u mid can over DO
obtained from Congross sufficient to improve
the navigation over tho bar5 Mt the mouth of
Galveston bay. There are TOO many inter
osts opposed to II. Every railroad In the
statc and MI their connections, oven up 10
the very wharyes Of New York, arc opposed
70 H.; They do not want water competition
for the carrying trade ofTcxOs. They know
what tho State now IS and the grand future
before It, and they want monopoly of the
transportation Of is products TO Eastern
marts and the merchandise N be sent back
In return. Give Galveston twenty-five or thir.
" feet of water on her bars, and ocean steam
ers will crowd her wharves aud contest with
the railroads for the carrying trade Weld.
ing the influence they do with distinguished
statesmen who pass appropriation bills in
Congress, they can always contrive in some
way to keep appropriations for Galveston
harbor down 10 inluitessimal proportions. |
The monied men Of Galveston must run
their hands into their pocket ind get deep
water for themselves. II can be obtained and |
il need not cost any eXorblaht |
sum. Done by private enterprise, +
il will reasonably cost less than il done by
the Government. The wherefore of THE |
must be obvious. When once deep water is |
secured, aud by private MEANS then n petit |
ton for reimbursement by the Government
would doubtless be granted, MS there would |
be no cause for outside opposition, but il not |
granted the deep water itself will reimburse |
those who furnished the means by I'm increase
of business. 1t would make Galveston one
of the grandcst cities in all the South.
The removal Of the other diff |
fculty, the wharf monopoly, must
rest with the people of Galveston. TIE
franchise must be purchased and the State
rid Of It's exactons. When these things are
done the trade Of Texas will begin to center
at Galveston, and in a little time 1t will all
flow there as to Il common reservoir, and our
money will be kept at home to build up a
city of our own and develop our own inter-
ests.
There are many magnificent business
houses and residences in this city, and the
world Of flowers and evergreens that flourish
so luXuriantly in the resident portion of the
city, together with the sca-breezes and the
surf bathing, make ii one of the most delight
full summer resorts in all the South. The
city is now, to all appearances, very cleah
and the active Board Of Health is seeing 10 it
that it is thoroughly cleaned up and kept
so. 1t is not expected that there will be
any
YELLOW FEVER
This year, for it seems now to be an accepted
theory that cleanliness is the. only
effective quarantine to this dreadful
scourge, and Galveston will put it 10
critical test, if l may use the
term, this year.
Reyerting to Galveston as commercial
city agan, permit me TO say that think she
can only be this. Her cotton trade will keep
her alive during the fall and winter, and with
deep water she can bsld up grain trade
TO make her active during the summer. Right
on her wbarves she can erect great grain
elevators and load the largest sized vessels
with grain for foreign ports. she can never
bea
MANUFACTURING CITY,
Because she has neither fuel nor water for
the purpose. This makes it o necessity for
ner to build up grain trade, that her labor
ing classes may have employment throughout
the year. AS it is now, they do not get work
for more than seven months of the year, and
The consequent idleness of the other FIVE eats
up what they made while they had work.
Her pressmen, 'longshoremr, daymen and
laboring classes generalyare now pretty well
on. of employment, and will so continue un'
.il the next cotton crop begins TO
come in. While Houston can never build
up grain trade, she can have manufactures,
and will have them in the course of time and
thus maintain her prosperity. TIE folly of :
to rival Galveston commercially,
will be learned by Houston after awhile and Z
then she will set about achieving her destiny
in the right way, and that is by mauuiscto-
ries 1t is commended by many at the com
pletion ofthe ralroad 10 New Orleans from
Houston will materially hurt Galveston, but
don't think so. With the water facilities !
me has, she can get goods cheaper to her
loors than they can ever be laid down in
Houston by rail, and if this be so, how can
.he New Orleans road hurt Galveston? !
The far famed 1
STEAMER COLORADO,
If the Mallory line, being in port, visited her
The figure she cut in the Galveston Houston
quarantine imbroglio last fall invested her
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