The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-17
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trade has In IL more than passing flgnin'
canoe. The common courtesies Of life TO tho
strangers within our gates arc due to all,
but when the representative and lending
business men of city Of the importance OF
Dallas, leave the cares and duties Of theis
various businesses to greet with welcome and
tender special Inequalities to visitors from
far away state, it means something more
than grant Of the ordinary amenities OF
life. These gentlemen, who were the guests
ofthe board OF trade yesterday, are all promi-
nent and representative men in business
circles in the state of Maine They
are gentlemen of means, with capital
invested ia manufactures, lumber mills
and other enterprises and they
have surplus capital for investment in other
business ventures. They are in Texas pros
pecting; looking st the country with view
to informing themselves as to its climate; its
SOIL; its water power facilities; lis timbered
advantages and its resources and induce
ments generally. They can best arrive at
correct conclusions on these points by ming
ling with the people, the intelligent and in
formed classes, and learning from them the
facts they are seeking, and Dy looking at the
country. There was no source in Dallas
from which they could CLEAN more solid and
relisble data such as they desired, than from
the board of trade. But the significance that
is of real value in the visit of these gentle
men and Of their cordial welcome
and generous entertainment by the board OF
trade, is in the facts that Texas is attracting
the attention of substantial citizens abroad,
gentlemen of means, who are beginning to
learn that we have a country down here
worthy of their consideration, and that Of
fers rich field for investment in enterprises
and industries Of every character, and that
our own people are awaking to the import
ance of inviting to our midst just such class
of our fellow-citizens and Of offering them
every facility and inducement to come
among us and be of US and join with us in
the grand work Of building up and develop
ing Texas, and helping her on to the achieve
ment of that glorious future nature has 80
generously placed within her reach. Such
episodes as this one bring the people of the
sections nearer together. We come
to know more of our fellow citizens Of the
north, and they get better acquainted with
us, and the formalities, not to say the
frigidities, that result from lack OF a
better knowledge and understanding of each
other are removed by the kindlinesses of in
tercourse, and mutual appreciation follows
Texas, to use homely phrase, has within
her the making of mighty empire. She
can become.the most powerful factor in this
union of states, 1.-The keystone in the arch OF
common wealths that make up the temple OF
the American republic, and sll that is
needed is energy and enterprise. Give
Texas the leaven of northern industry, de-
termination, business vim and progress, and it
will be but few years until, like the gard n
of Hesperides, she will bear golden fruit
Wenot only want the strong, sturdy sons OF
toll 10 come TO us and open up our wilder
ness and prairie stretches to agriculture, tina
the earth may be made to give of its riches,
bat we want men of capital to aid us in es-
tsblishing all manner of induetries, that our
products and our natural material at hand
now going to waste may DO multiplied in
values and utilized. Texas has vast acres of
coal slumberng in her hills; iron aud copper
and other metals enough, virgin in her
boaom, to supply the wants of continent
and water power now idle without end. Let
the magic wand of capital, enterprise and
energy but touch these and her hillsides Will
glow with furnaces, rolling mills, and fonn.
dries: her water courses will teen with man
ufactories, and the hum and CHATTER OF ma
chipery will resound throughout her
length and breadth. a new day has
dswned upon US, and if we are not suggards
to let lis morning tide slip by US, the noon
day will give US a fruition grander than the
conceptions of even the most florid magma
ton. These gentlemen from Maine are not
the fret ones from the older and richer por-
tions of the country to come down to Texas
on prospecting tour, and they will not be
the last. The tide is setting our way now;
the eyea of multitude of people ore turned
toward our state, and moneyed men by
scores viii soon be placing their means in
our midst 10 ventures that will pay them and
that will add TO our commercial importance,
and benefit our material interests; and while
Il is fact that we have cordial welcome
for them, it is well 10 manifest that fact.
Viewed = from political standpoint,
these visits and welcomes are good for the
whole country, and especially good for tie
soulh. Our northern brethren by coming IN
contact with us soon learn that We are not
the are-eating rebels that many of them think
US and we discover that they are not embued
with that sectionalism and bitter prejudice
against us, that we have supposed. Amuiual
understanding comes about that will besr
fruit which will ripen into unity Of the
sections and a perfect restoration of good
feeling