The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-16
AN unnEcEsaAnY APPREHENSION.

tho country, observes that since 1910 Wo
have increased one single interest alone, VIZ;
tho railway, some 500 900 OOOi and this, 1t
thinks, is OVERRIDING things, and will lead to
an early collapse. 1t has now been eight
years since Jay Cooke failed and so brought
about such very general collapse that 1t
has taken us many years to arise from. This
was, we all distinctly recollect. from too
extensive branching out with his gigantic
railroad schemes, especially the Northern
Pacific; how soon this other jay,
the railroad msgnste of to-day, as his
namesake WAS then, will cock the
commercial and financial goose, through a
similar OVERRIDING of immense projects, or by
his death, or by some other thing, and the
country sgsin be plunged into panic, we
cannot say. We can reasonably hope, hows
ever, for an exemption of at least two or
three more years longer, as financial panic
visits us about once every ten years and
somehow, strangely enough, as has been Oh
served, Just about the time the sun spots
assume a certain phase, and which will rot
be for some three years yet. So the Graphic
may rest easy for while. Besides this,
tina. journal forgets that pretty much
all this railway building Is being
doce in the south and west, and
proportionately, the larger portion Off in
Texas. We are building through country
of most magnificent climate, where trains
m ~ run regularly in all seasons of the year
u checked by ice blockades and SHOWS
through soils where nature exhibits peren-
nisl grandeur and wealth of production
and hence where business will await the
railway enterprises from the coming in OF q
new year Until the going out thereof. Ke>
Numbering that Texas ia six times the size OF
New York, and every foot of her area most
admirable for some particular product; that
she is larger than all the New Englaud states
combined with New York, Pennsy lvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Ohio and Illinois; that
she is twice the siz, of Great Britain and
Ireland; and that she is without the inevitss
Bile mountainous rocky soil and morasses OF
those states and countries, we may safely say
that this great Empire state of the south and
the world, can easily support population OF
$4,000 600 people, and be grldironed with
the iron bands. For here grow the cotton
from which alone soma of our states have
gained their annual living here we can rival
the sugar of Louisiana, the rice of Carolina,
the hemp of kentucky and Missouri, the
corn and the wheat of Iowa, Illinois and
Minnesota. Here is pine that equals the
long leaf of Florida, cypress that surpasses;
that of even the Sugar Bowl state
here can be cultivated fruits of every variety.
Here too are live stock of every description,
And here too, locked in the bosom of her
north western district, lie in rich abundance
the buried suubesms of other ages that went
down in the carboniferous era, and that loving
the flower and the leaf loved them and go
built up the trees and then descended with
hem into the prison cells of the deeper earth,
remained thus imprisoned through all the
from woody fibre to tar,
pitch, Ignite, Goals, until these black dia-
nonds are now ready to be put again into
service on the surface o. a Texas prairie ard
20 make our cities busy with the hum of in.
lustry that its latent force can beg,t
Texas is replete with not only this coal;
but with every species of mineral wealth,
md il needs but the iron horse TO convey it
% market in the interest of the world. II
,old and bleak and rocky Massachusetts can
sustain population of 200 souls to the square
c;lir surely Texas, with all these advantages
Sat Omnipotence has intermingled in delight
'ul confusion and singular profusion upon
Ter living crust AMI in her cemetery depths,
AN maintain the same proporticnate number
If people, or so O0O,0 900, to say nothing strong
IT. Mono, the Graphic need not fear that rail-
way construction is progressing too rapidly,
It least in this section OF the country we
wish to sec still greater progress made, a
progress that will speedily link us with the
yery centre of our more dusky neighbors OF
he South whose lands hide many an ems
,almed corpse Of purest silver In some cry
taline companion metals or mineral, and in
whose rocky treasury we must inaugurste
he reign of life and energy where erst has
,een naught but the silence OF death. No,
g. the railways come and in their train all
hose enterprises that mock the Malthusian
beory Of population outrunning production,
md wrh them liksRiss let US have the Drawn
md the brain from those energizing ATTITUDES
where flourish those grand industries that
make man en- honor, TO his race, ana this
country the pride Of its people and glory
o this sphere. flour northern friends are fesr-
al Of collapse. let them come TO this our
errestiAl paridisiAl garden Of the word
they will be welcomed and protected in any
nd all of lie sections, while they need have
20 apprebensions Of too much rail-
gsy construction or other progress
Is corrobAtory Of the above we read in the
Sev YOik Herald Of Tuesday the following
shich will especially kPply 10 this section Of
be south: "The era OF political quiet snd
Industrial prosperity that hiss dauned bright