The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-16
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.

! The New Orleans Democrat gives tho fol
lowing information Of another railroad tina
, Is coming TO connect our Texas system:
This railroad, which runs from Vicksbur,
10 Monroe, on the Ouachita river, and which
Is the most important link In the great lati.
tudinsl line from the Atlantic 10 the Texs
system, has recently been sold TO an Aabsm,
railroad company. The purchaser Is pow
erful corporation and the presumption Il
that the transfer is the forerunner of active
operations looking to the extension OF thi.
line. Only about ninety miles remain to be-
built in order to connect Monroe with Shreve.
port and thus 10 open 10 the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific railroad the vast
trade of Texas, 1t is fair 10 assume that the
Alabama company would not have bought
the road unless they intended to extend it,
and thus wa may loook to sec the work be-
gun at an early day 1t occurs to us that an
essential preliminary to any projection of the
road beyond Monroe would be the raising of
the already established grade above the over
flow. The running of the trains has been
interrupted this year on account of high
water. 1t was interrupted last year, and is
likely to be at any time in the future from
the same cause. So long as these conditions
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money to extend the read westward, The
first thing to be done is to raise the road as it
now exists, 80 as to place it beyond the
reach of any emergency resulting from high
water. Afterward the construction of the
line westward to Shreveport will be in order.
This road, in its completed form, will be a
great benefit to north Louisiana and south
ecn Arkansas. 1t will connect the parishes
of Union, Morehouse, Claiborne, Webster,
jackson, Lincoln, Bienville, Bossier and
Csddo with New Orleans by rail, together
with the whole southern tier of Arkansas
counties. Branch roads would soon be con.
structed, tapping the Arkansas system, and
thus the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific
road would soon become the most plentiful
feeder to New Orleans and the Mississippi
river. Every consideration of interest aod
expediency will conspire to urge the new
owners of tho Vlcksburg, Shreveport &
Pacific road to copsumate its original
scheme and complete its proposed connec.
tons. And, should this be DONE the road |
will be metamorpbosed from struggling |
and unremunerstive enterprise into one of
the most important and prosperous lines in
the country.
What sense is there in casting pearls be-
fore swine? 1t ia but waste of words 10
reason with the witch burning element of
Massachusetts, all of them republicans.
What is good for them and what
is good for the south are two differ
ent things. Our emancipsted negroes
and..their white slaves the hollow eyed women
half fed children and hopeless men Of their
cotton mills and shoe shops and other indus
tries the government protects with its tariff,
that they may continue to grind down into
psnury and went the poor of their own kith
and kind, are two different races. These
whites must be kept feom voting an oner-
GUS poll tax lest they lift some portion of
the burthen from their necks, but the blacks
of the south must not be required to pay
poll tax as a requisite before voting, else the
republican party will lose votes This is
Massachusetts,, in fact republican consist
ency, honesty, justice and decency. The St.
Louis Republican says on this subject:
The Massachusetts senators were real en-
thusissts in their support of Malone in his
efforts 10 behalf of a Stree ballot" which |
was cor ID 10 mean repeal of the poll |
tax inVirginis, by which many negroes ara
kept from the polls, in resi- poet that neg ,ei
do not come out strong 10 tax paying. The |
readiuster p'r ~, d's'iro'ly declares for
the repeal of ,-.s i...., .L- .Adical journals,
especially those of Massachusetts, indorse the |
platform. 1t is now submitted that these
same senator's and journals are stultifying
themselves on this question OF suffrage |
poll. tax is required in Massachusetts, as
condition precedent to voting. This ta& .
imposed VIGOROUSLY for the purpose o.
operating on white men in the Bay state, as
It's. charged in Virginia it is designed to
operate on the negroes. The wicked
ness of the policy in the |
two states digers only in
degree and not in kind. |
By as much as a negro is better, in the esti- |
nation of Massachusetts Radical. than
white foreigner, by just so much is tho leg
islston Of Virginia moro repEehonsiblo thaa
that of Massachusetts,. Massachusetts has
furnished precedents for nearly everything
which she now so bitterly denounceI 10 |
Southern policy. Even the dogma of seces-
sion which led 10 the war was solemnly pro,
claimed by her legislature and representa-
tives in congress nearly fifty years before the
South put II in practice. That rich and re-
spectacle old state should take some Of the
medicine che so profussly offers TO others.
The New York Evening Express says of
Senator Malone and his repudis,ou:
Sena or Malone gathered himself together
In a state convention al Richmond Va, yes
terday. He was numerous, noisy, inhar-
monious, and considerably inchoaie. he
was white and black, with all possible shades
of color between the extremes. lie IVES
democratic and republican by turns, but
neither much, aud portion Of him was con-
siderAbly intoxics'ed and not q little demon.
Al zed. In fact, he was in 3 decidedly Gle
mental condition, and desperately DESTROYS Of
fusirg with somebody or getting into On or
gsnic state. Personally be seemed 10 be
popular with the thousand people who had
got together, and his assault on the demo
cratic psr,y and the English language Wa
loudly cbeered. The convention was 30
motley In character, with such dis
similar views, that little progress
was made. The colored element pre1ominsted
apd The negroes denounced toe republican
party bitterly. II had deceived and betrayed
and robbed them, leaving them a. the
thieves lsft the Traveller by the roadside; and
they hoped "Mistsr Mshons" would show