The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-10-20

what are the indisputable facts
and who were right, the PEG
pie who ratified the constitution By
over seventy-nine thousand majority, OF
those sapient newspapers and candidates
for legislative honors, who so raved AND
rules O. bodied in the constitution? Let u!
see:-
1. The constitution went into effect in the
very centre Of the great financial crisi.
which began in 1878 and ended in 1879. Yet
under its provisions, from previously IN
known and annually increasing public debt
the increase has been stopped ,alarge amount
Of the principal paid of, and there is now,
to-day, October 10, 1881, enough surplus
the remaining public debt, and stop the in.
terest on the same.
2. More railroads have been constructed
in that time than were ever before con-
structed in twice the number Of years.
3. More railroads by three-fold are now
under construction than ever before at one
time.
4. Five times as much money have been
expended in railroad construction in the
were ever expended in any previous five
years.
5. Six times as many water works, gas
works, ice factories and kindred improve
ments in the towns of the state have been
constructed under the new constitution as
were ever constructed in all previous time.
g. Despite all predictions to the contrary,
lugubriously. proclaimed from the house
LADDERS ofthe neonle onr state of enormous
torr;tnrv ia now Ifnked tooether bv railrohd
from Texarkana at tbe Extreme northeast
to Laredo at the extreme northwest-from
Marshall on the east, practically 1874
Houston 4 Texas Central has jumped from
region of New Mexico. and lands passen-
GERS ut Cisco. on the line of the Texas e.
Pacific The Missouri Pacific has passed
from Denison. on Red River. by Way of
Whiteshoro PILOT Point Fort Worth AL
varado. and Hillsboro, on its way to the
northwest. The Texas Trunk. born under
the new constitution. without furs or feath-
theirs, has been completed to Kaufman,
thirty four miles. and Is Graded for A hun,
drnd miles further toward Sabine Pass.
with millions of cross ties on the line and
twenty miles of additional iron. The Chi
c c"u Teras & Mexican Central is graded
from Dallas fiftv.three miles southwest to
CIebnrne. and is LAYING track on it and
oroding northeast TO meet n St Lohis road
f'be 81 Lonis Narrow Gaure has been built
from Texarkana to the vicinity of Bolton,
n ~ hllll1lno
las from Mount Pleasant. The Galveston.
Harr;shurp e. San Antonio has been ex,
tanda5 from Columbus on tbe Colorado. TO
n no;nt y hundred miles from San Antonio
on p tha route to meet the Southern Pacific
from San Francisco already la miles in
TeYos from III Paso The Corpus Christi
road has been extended from San Diego to
Laredo. there meeting the international
amd Wn'ri im system Of roads Nineteen
othar roaJs are hinder wav in different parts
Of The state and ali This. Mr.. Editor. under
The constitution of 1876. which, it was
so;d would keen ont foreipn canital and
min the state,
II was soid the new constitution would
ston Immigration into the state: vet in its
Ave wears existence more immigrants have
non,s in than in ,nv nrevious ten wears.
More towns have been established.
mora sbons more seminaries. more churcbes'
more cspital introduced and more inn.
miorants received in the five wear. under
the present constitution than in any previ.
GUS ten OF fifteen years in the history Of
this state.
o. Ten times as much school land has
been sold in these five years as ever sold
before in all past time.
10. The free schools are in better condi-
ton, with better teachers and continue
longer in the year than ever before.
III. Texas bonds, which were hawked on
the streets of New York without bidders, ARE
now held so high that the holders will not
vet Weld them up to the state for redemp-
ton in cash. They want LAG cents for each
dollar Of the bonds, which, above all Things,
gives the lie direct to the assertion that the
new constitution would rum ths credit Oh
the state. 1t is ruined at the rate oil 40 per
cent. profit.
IL. A dozen Of the largest counties In the
state are out OF debt, have good court
houses and jails and money III the trasury.
10. The court OF appeals, having appel
late Jurisdiction in criminal matters, is up
with its business at its three seats OF sitting,
Tyler, Galveston and Austin, 50 that JUS
tice is properly administered.
IA. The county courts, dallas being
largest county in the state in that respect,)
are up with their business, and only the su-
preme court Is behind. These facts prove
much in favor Of the present Judicial sys-
TEN.
* Instaas of checking or stoppins i'm
r,icr,t;on under tbe nresent constitution
he insov ia Greater than ever be fore. IA Is
t.r;ca !. greaf AZ under the Davis admipis
.r.,;on vi,b an ertrayaeant i'm
,..is,rot;or burean. and vet our
-aa1 bnraars nv railroad comnaniee "a land
nSnap, nroyided for by Terss a. early as
isz have hut recently been orranizod' A
iittls tina will show their utility on a scale
H., Ill drive into caverns Of darkne.s
. .has ,uiI;s,ir, moths IN nevsn.neriom Who
'.oS;,.ad ,hat ths new constitntion vould