The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-24
WHAT NORTH TEXAS NEEDS.

success of Governor Roberts In his present
and persistent efforts to secure renomina-
ton next month for the executive chair. In
the first place, and for the present we VIII
consider only this feature-we have climate
and soil that will produce m immensely OF
agricultural and stock and fruit products; we
possess every facility for the establishment
and remunerative operating OF the manu-
featuring industries; our section is full OF
mineral wealth. Now to develop all these
possibilities we need capital and labor;
Wa need an immigration of people who will
put under cultivation these rich farming
lands who will. inaugurate the factory era,
who will build our railroads and do all such
manner of work. Has Governor Roberts
shown any disposition to effect this great
thing for US? Assume that he has piled up
treasury saving of 100000, is that Of
any special avail to this part of Texas, If
indeed, of any part of it II has been estI-
mated, and the figure is standard, that ev ry
healthy, good man brought into country is
worth to 1t at least $1,000, and this is Il low
figure considering that ignorant slaves VERY
once worth $1,000 to $4,000 piece. Now,
if in the two years of Governor
Roberts administration, he had have so ex-
erted himself he could have introduced into
north Texas alone, let lis say, only 1000
desirable men, here would have been for us
value of 100000. His policy has been
to defeat this very thing. Instead of 1000
immigrants, we should have had nearer 100,-
900 abe-bodied workmen brought here. If
it be replied that he could not control this
subject, 1t is to be more strongly retorted
that he and his friends claim that all the
good the last legislature accomplished is to
BIO placed to the credit of his Influence. In
this year of unexampled immigration, Texas,
the great state of Texas, stands without
showing in the list of states that have in
duced immigrants into their limits. With
crops never known to be 80 abundant as
now, we are at loss to save them from want
oflabor. Texas will produce this season
about Is per cent increase in the cotton
crop alone, over and above last year, and yei
we are with tower laboring hands than we
have had for many year. The corn crop
ranges an increase from 60 to rs per cent.
over last wear. 1t will be impossible to save
il by very large percentage. These are of
the ills that fall heavily upon the industrious
farmer What does it avail him that there
is a surplus of idle funds in the state treasury
and that there is a possibility, amere hope, ola
slight reduction of taxes when the actual
loss of such vast proportions of his
crops will operate as tax many times mul-
tipled in reality, by that possible per cent
age of savings This is the practical light
for the farmer to view this question in. Let
us see suppose q farmers tax is reduced,
say $50 year, through administration
ilnancering, and that he loses half
dozen bales of cotton, or q few hundred
bushels of corn worth $3.50, through admin
istration folly, what sort of economy is this,
and how befooled is that mind that would
cry hozannahs to the political economist to
whom Is due such result? And yet this
is not far from being the actual
condition of affairs under the Roberts regime.
We srs told that there is this $500, 900
in the treasury and yet we know that while
this feat was. being accomplished, the more
material interests of the country were who'll
ly neglected. We are told that possible little
reduction of taxes to the people of the
state will possibly DO effected, and yet we see
all the people of north Texas, for when the
farmers suffer We all do, losing millions of
dollars through an administration that could
have saved it all to us. Is this the sort of
fnanciering, Is this the sort of administrative
ability that we of north Texas desire
If not then let us have
a change and secure very different results.
But it is contended that Governor Roberts Is
a scrupulously honest man and official. No
one doubts this so far rs We know, vet hon
esty Of purpose and action is not oil that is
required for chief executive of q state.
Competency, industry, skill and experience
are some among the other virtues equally de-
srable, and surely Texas is not so poor that
from her vast area not man can be found
to ill the bill. The present lieutenant-gov-
ernor of the state, who has had the same
amount yea more of experienced state
craft than his senior, has evidenced
from his induction into Office down to to-
day his superior foresight, his clearer ap-
prehension Of the needs of the state, especi-
ally Of those things that are clearly to DO Of
The development OF this great section. On
all the leading questions that involve our
welfare, he clashed with the governor from
the time of their Inauguration, and though
powerless to operate the wheels as he would
have them 60, he has done what he could to
indicate as well as to remove the obstacles
that clogged their progress. Colonel w.
w. Lang, of Marlin, the great granger,
who Is supposed to understand best
what his clans most desire, has pursued the
the same course as Lieutenant. G Governor
Ssyers, thus clearly showing that such Of