The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-11

The New Orleans Democrat gives the fol-
lowing information of another railroad tina!
!, coming to connect our Texas system:
Tbis railroad, which runs from Vicksbure
N Monroe, on the Ouachita river, and which
"a The mt st important link in the great lati-
.,a;nsl lice from the Atlantic to the Texas
sSstem. has recently been sold to an Alabama
rs;lrosd company. The purchaser is pow
srful corporation and the presumption is
that the transfer is the forerunner Of active
onerstions looking to the extension of this
lima. Oaly about ninety miles remsin to be
huilt in order to connect Monroe with Shreve-
mort and thus TO open to the Vicksburg,
shreveport and Pacific railroad the vast
trade of Texas, Ii is fair 10 assume that the
Alabama company would not have bought
The road unless they intended to extend it.
And thus we may loook to sec the work be-
cun at an early day. l. 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.
A,w. The running Of the trains has been
interrupted this year on account of high
water. 1t was Interrupted las, year, and is
likely to be at any time in the future from
the same cause. So lorg as these conditions
prevail it would be mere waste Of time and
money to extend the read westward. The
first thing to be done is to raise the road as it
now exists, so ss to place it beyond the
reach of any emergency resulting from high
water. Af,erward 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
en- 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 coon be con.
structed, tapping the Arkansas system, and
thus the Vlcksburg, Shreveport & Pacific
road would soon become the most plentiful
feeder to New Orleans and the Mississippi
river. Every consideration Of interest and
eYpediency will conspire to urge the new
owners of the Vicksburg, Shreveport &
Pacific road to consumate its original
scheme and complete its proposed connec
tons. And, should this be done, tho road
will be metamorphosed from o 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 is 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 emancipated 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 DO kept feom voting on 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 q
poll tax as requisite before voting, else the
republican parry will lose votes. This is
Massachusetts, in fact republican consist
ENJOY, honesty, justice and decency. The st.
Louis Republican says on this subject:
The Massachusetts senators we're real on.
thusiasts in their support of Malone in his
efforts in behalf of Stree ballot" which
was construed TO mean a repeal Of the poll
tax inVIrginis,by which many negroes are
kept from the polls, in respect that negroes
do not come out strong IL tax paying. The
readuster platform distinctly declares fol
10 e L. La, 4.
especially those of Massachusetts, indorse the
platform. 1t is now submitted that these
came senators and journals are stullifying
themselves on this question of suffrage A
poll. tax is required in Massachusetts as ,
condition precedent to voting. This tax !
imposed VIGOROUSLY for the purpose of
operating on white men in the Bay state, al
it's charged in Virginia i! is designed t
operate on the negroes. Tho wicked
ness of the policy In the
two states digers only in
degree and not in kind
By as much as negro is better, in the est
nation of Massachusetts Radical, than
white foreigner, by just SO much is tho leg
islstion of Virginia more reprehenslble thai
that of Massachusetts. MASSACHUSETTS ha
furnished precedents for nearly everythiD
which she now go bitterly denounces i
Southern policy. Even the dogma OF secea
sion which led to the war was solemnly pre-
claimed by her legislature and represents
tives in congress nearly alty years before th
South put It in practice That rich and RI
spectacle old state should take some Of th
medicine che so profussly offers to others.
The New York Evening Express says {
Senator Malone and hi, regulators:
Senator Malone gathered himself togeth,
in state convention a! Richmond Va, ye:
terday. He was numerous, noi,, inhal
- monious, and constcrN .uchoate. II
was wtite and black, w,.n sil possible shade
of color between tho extremes. He W,
democratic and republican by turns, b.
neither much, and a portion Of him was col
siderably intoxica'ed and not little demon
allied. In fact, no was in decidedly oil
mental condition, and desperately DESTROYS
fusng with somebody or getting into an o
ganic state. Personally he seemed to b
popular with the thousand people who hs
got together, and bis assault on the dem
cratic party and tho English language vi
loudly cheered. The convention was 6
motley in character, with such di
similar views, that little progre
was made. The colored element predominant
and the negroes denounced the repuslica
party bitterly. II had deceived and botraye
and robbed them, leaving them as tn
thieves left tho traveller by tho roadside; 81
they hoped "Mister Malone" would sho
himself TO DO tho good Samaritan. Less W
said about reputation than on former occ