The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-07
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Prosperity.
A eminent Kentuckisu was seated las
riry in the St. George hotel surrounded
~ number OF Dallssisns, all of whom
" eagerly and jealousy striving to i'm
was" "s upon their prospecting auditor the
~ that this WAS the nucleus of tia greatest
"a, in Texas. After listening some time
- The arguments. assertions, statistics and
,,,;os with which these enthusiastic cit
su s delugol hin, the victim, who had
w. W., completed o tour through all the i'm
a',snt towns and cities in the state, sud-
"Is asked: "Whst are the special forces
!, peculiar advantages which have
Made YOUR town the great city, par excel
lance, of Texas"
STbe energy and enterprise of our mer-
,s,nts," cried one; "Our commanding posi-.
i'm AZ the Natural trade centre of vast and
s,lie reeion," said another; "Our railroad
sv,tem, completed and prospective, which
mixes D alias the receiving and distributing
Mini for the giant northwest" responded a
XIII. "The restless activity and indelaligs'
Ma industry of our drummers, penetrate g
srpry county and bringing US trade from
sv.re point" claimed another; the intelll-
csnce foresight, pubic spirit, wise
determinations and libersiily OF
o ~, property holders" began
raj another, when he was interrupted by q
Ipr.tsof Isug hter, broken only by jeering
comments W on the condition Of our street,
And pavemeRts and the city's embargo on
eM and water works.
A, this outbreak subsidized the Kentuckian,
rsling for refreshments for the party, an
,vered his own question thus: Gentlemen.
YOU are all right aAd you are al wrong.
fuerpy. enterprise, intelligence, activity,
bre,ight, good judgment, natural advantages
and some wealth have all contributed to
YOUR city's Importance, but they have been
merely aids to your pre- eminence, not the
csuse of it. The cause, think
h 10 be found in your won
a.rful capacity for work, and
Ae untiring diligence characterizng your
people in doing that work. Dallas is thu
city of Texas, because her citizens work
harder and more continuously than any
other urban people in the state. Your
merchants and artisans had to do it at first
and | suppose they have grown to like it
for the one fact that strikes me is that they
sre all the hardest workers in Texas and
The southwest" As the party strolled of 10
zee if the barkeeper was faithfully attending
10 bis portion of Dallas work, the discussion
set q representative OF TIT
HERALD-who, by-the.way, WAS over
looked when the fat for refreshments
when forth-to thinking, and his thoughts.
other than OF tie beverage that exhllarales
Induced tone Of inquiry and observation,
The joint results of which are here laid bt-
fore the reader.
There is probably no place in the southwest
where so much work is undertaken and com
ple,ed 10 tw nty>four hours as in Dallas.
Galveston, confident in her advantages as h
seaport, relsxes her vigilance and rests upon
her past achievements and the promne Of
deep water through national governments
means and labor, and behold, Dallas has
seized upon large portion o
her valuable trade. Houston dreams
dreams and hugs the fond delusion thai
she is the enter-depot and railroad center Of
the state, and Dallas works on and suddenly
looms up as the focus of the Texas 81 stem OF
railroads.. San Antonio, boastful of her
Mcient structures and the trade of the west
and south west, dsw lie on as the gr4ndfath
mdid, while the products of the prsries
pass by her gates TO be emptied, when con-
Verted into cash, into the lap of the tradr
center of North Texas, she fain would rival
Waco INDUCES the delusion that she is the
educational and intellectual capital of the
"Lone Star" and by dint of persistent eff.
brit Dallas becomes formidable co npepitor
for the bay Waco deemed securely entwined
upon her own brow.
These rapid strides of our city toward SUI
premscy is the result OF patient, faithful
scIive and persistent labor. The citizens OF
her sister cities may have time to eujoy and
cultivate the elegsncies, the niceties, the re
daements and the embellishments of life.
bat the DAllssisn leaves these things for the
future, knowing that, let him work as hard as
b, may, there is certain to be lutte more to
Dc done than he can accomplish, not OF
Texas alone but OF the southwest. and 1t lie
Tor this he strives. He wakes in the morn
ing with no doubts as to what be
shall find to do through the
dayton he knows there was enough life even
last night to occupy oil his time. Life is to
lin continual rsce after a race for wealth
and position and infnence. often. alas. a race
for bread. hut alwsvs and nnder all cir,u m.
stances a race for nrhsn sovareigntv Evorv
man feals him self To he a soldiar In Tho o-es,
army of workers pernetusllv on the battle
field or the sentrv post work waits on
every doorstep demanding inst.nI attention,
work rides beside tn, street car and omnibus
n N L
brouebsm or oo,,ns and will MOI be denied
work /, ,bs au,ocrst whose slaves the chi.
zens of Dallas bsvs voluntsrilv b.come and