The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-06
THE NEW ERA.

has purchased the Missouri, Kansas ~
Texas road, and Is now that roads President
That road has purchased, through u sindI'
cate Of gentlemen, the Donison and Pacific
road, running from Denison 10 Gainesville,
and better news than all for Texas, all Tho
differences between tho owners and managers
of tho Central Pacific and Union Pacific rail
roads and the owners aud manager
of tho Texas, Il Pacific have boon
settled, and not only does perfect harmony
rogn between all partios concerned, bul
there Is now n unity Of action between them
There Is, we may call 1t, Il trcaty of alliance
offensive and defensive between tho Texas a
Pacific road and tho Missouri, Kansas a
Toxas road with the ~. Louis, Iron Noun
tain ~ Southern road, also =
party TO the coalition. Dallaf
Is the central point where these interests CON
verge md Dallas becomes the great empo
rum Of North Tcxs, This coalition Of
forces 10 but tho dawnng Of n now era in thu
affairs OF TcSas, Tho construction Of these
railroads will bring immigration to people
the rich lands along their routes, AS the
Texas Pacific stretches iti iron form
towards the West, towards the argentine
and aurifcrous regions of Arizona, New Mex
leo and California, travoming tho wild' Of
Northwest Texas, now appropriated save by
n cattle rRnchero here and there with his
herds, and that in the vastncss Of virgin pral-
ric and prim~yal forrest, gives hiding and
refuge to the savage Indian, popu-
lntion will follow in lis trail and
thousands of homes on the sunny
slopes aud in tho vernal wales
all through the rcgion adjacent ind contigu-
Gus to It's route will spring up, us ifby magic.
Tho towns and cities of North Texas will
largely increase in population; new farms
will be opened in tho thick settled counties
and GLORIOUS prosperity will smile oil over
the land. These teeming thousands that arc
coming will converge to our section
from every direction and from
every way. The enterprise, the energy, the
skill, the tact and the sound good sense Of
the North and of tho West will pour into
our midst to act rs leaven TO better the
whole. Progress is written in letters of light
on the future Of Texas, and look which way
you will, they CLEAN like fro by night and
are Ms cloud by day. The whole
State must become infused with
and enthused by this idea, and it must be the
ruling spirit in all undertakings, nall concep-
tons. Old things must become as new; old
fogy notions must DO laid aside-the drivel
of the days of the cid must give way for the
robust, active present, vigorous in its prcpar-
atoms for and anticipatlons of the fu-
ture. Our State-young in years, II
giant in its strength, regal in its power, mag
niicent in its beauty, glorious in its history,
must keep pace with the times in all things,
keep step with the progress of the age. In
every neighborhood there must BIO public
school houses, where the children Of the
land can receive the blessings of an education
without money and without price. Free
education Is as necessary for States ad-
vancement and developments ms any species of
enterprise can be. To support public schools
is duty the citizen owes and is an expense
that he must meet, that is rs incumbent
upon him as the expense of building jails
and penitentiaries. A widespread, well
perfected system of public schools is Whit
our State must adopt and inaugurate if it
eflete ideas. The suicidal, and we might say
antedeluvian policy of no aid for immgra-
ton, must be abrogated by n vigorous and
judicious course 20 secure immigrants from
every direction. The railroad companies
Of the State are vitality interested
in this question, and it would
be wise, perhaps, for the State to cooperate
with them in immigration matters. 1t need
not cost the State more than nominal sum
of money to secure flow of immigrants
each year that will, by their industry and
the benefits therefrom to accrue to the State,
largely repay what may be expended. 1t is
not necessary in this article to suggest what
particular action the State ought to take in
the mattey of immigration, but it
is certainty that there must be
.. radical change in the policy as to it
that now prevails. The senseless, we almost
feel justified in saying the iniquitous, consti-
tutonal inhibition must be done away with,
and until that is done point must be
strained and countenance of some sort be
given towards immigration schemes. That
Dallas is to greatly be benefited by the moves
now being made on the railroad chess-board
there can be no doubt 1t is through the
Dallas & Wichita railroad that Dallas Sc
cures the Transcontinental branch
of the Texas & Pacific road,
becoming from Whitesboro but u. continue
ton of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road to
Dallas. The Texas & Pacific company had
to buy this road to effect its coalition with
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road, and in
view of the great benefits to accrue to Dallas
it is not out of place to suggest that 1t can
we'll afford to give up its stock in the Dallas