The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-18
STATE PRESS REVIEW.

this is done, Dallas ought TO be the point,
trys TO strike n blow at this city in the fol-
lowing paragraph:
Whenever the announcement is made
tha. q fat office is to be filed in this state
the words are not out Of the mouth of the
speaker before somo ono jumps up and hol-
lows, ut the top Of bis voice, North Texas! !"
aud straight way we aie told that North Tex
as is entitled to that Office.
Now if the talent is here in Dallas, and
It most asauredly is; to fill the offices of the
state, then Dallas has q right to aspire,
but in fact Dallas has been modest; has asked
for nothing in the way of official positions
aud has been accommodated too, by not hay
ing them to any very great extent thrust up
on her people. Tyler cannot say this for
since January 1874 citizen Of that place
has either baen lieu enant-goverror or
governor We have no complaints to
mako about this however, for both the gen.
tlemen alluded TO are able, faithful public
servants and have rendered the state distin-
guishei and efficient service. We guess the
secret of the matter is, the Courier is lit 10
sore over the probabilities Of the courts COM
ing TO Dallas The Courier ought not to
object to this, if it really has at heart tho
creates. good 10 the greatest number for
il knows these courts az Dallas will be to
the increased convenience Of many thousand
people and TO the inconvenience Of no one
except the citizens Of Smith county. The
Courier also says:
There is getting to be belief in the minds
Of many people tEat Dallas city is in the SUI
burbs Of the slower regions" In that city
last weel, an attempt was made TO rob visit
ing editor by the name of II, Walters, of
the Buffalo Gap News, The devil has q
special hatred for newspaper men.
II this is true, if so much lswlessness pre-
walls in Dallas, somuch the moro reason why
the supreme aud appellate courts should be
at Dallas Outlaws would be afraid TO COM
init their outrages right in he shadow of
the temple of justice where these courts
met We can assure the Courier though,
that Its editor can como here with pe(ect
immunity from harm if it be true that "the
devil has a special hatred for newspaper
men," for he is not in a particle Of
danger.
Tho Galveston Journal of Commerce
gives tho following fgusrs of lands squan-
dorod by the government on railroads;
Few persons have any idea Of the amount
of land which has been given away by the
government down to the present time in aid
Cf railroad building. In Illinois the amount
has been 5,j95,05i acres; in Iowa, 6795,527
acres in Mississippi, l,0G2,2i0 acres in
Alabama, 3'579,120 acres; in Florida, 1900,
Ia acres in LOUISIANA, l,57S.720 acres in
Arkansas, 4,S7S li9 acres; in Missouri, .,
9S5, 100 acres in Michigan, 41l2,lSO acres {;
in Wisconsin, 4,S0S,l35 acres; in Minnesota,
! 9,90203l acres in Kansas 93IO,OOO acres.
besides this vast amount, l6O 1876 acres
have been given to the Pacific railroad
corporations, making grand total of 2l5,
! 500, S07 acres, or over $4,000 square miles
of land given by the United States govern
ment in aid of railroad construction. II is
estimated that the total value of the land
granted to the railroads of the country by
congress amounts TO fnlly S93S,009, 500
This amount has been arrived ~ BY turing
the average value of the land at $3.50 pei
acre which is low estimate.
We say sqaundered, because We believe
those same railroads thus subsidized by the
government would have been built anyhow
and it was questionable policy and an uu'
doubted usurpation of authority for the
government to give these lands away with
out first submitting the question TO vote OF
the people.
Tho Marshall Herald strongly favors the
passage ola bill for the encouragement aod
advancement of the agricultural interests
of tho state. The Herald, dis
cussing the pending bill of Mr.. Gray O.
Washington county, on this subject, says
It's sad fact that too little of the leg
islaton of the state has had for lis object the
benefit OF this important interest, and more
should be done to assist aud improve the
facilities in the agricultural department Of
the state. Tho bill is not an immigration
measure as some of our exchanges have
cassed it, but it is specially and directly for
the benefit, instruction and improvement Of
that class of our people who live by tilling
the soil, and upon which great industry the
whole superstructure of the state, in all its
ramifcations and departments, stands. We
hope the bill, or one similar TO it, will psss
and that such department OF the state will
be established, and the work as planned by
this bill will result in great good TO tho peo'
pie and TO the state.
While it is fact that it is not measure
directly in the interest of immigration, ye,
if the bill becomes law, q collection of the
agricultural and geological statistics of the
state can DO used by the railroad companies
and others engaged in bringing tet.lers into
it with good purpose.
Tho Orange Tribune is jubilsnt and e1-
ultant over the probabilities of deep water
at Sabine Pass and says, discussing the Ques'
ton and the possible effect on Houston and
Galveston:
But look at Sabine Pass with nineteen
feet of water across her bar to-day and the
Essayons still dredging, with money enough
appropriated to guarantee twenty-five feet
These are facts which cannot be kept down,
which must gain just recognition. Hous-
ton and Galveston may pool issues" and