The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-10
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tho public interest, no man, much less q
member Of the legislature, acting under
outh, can deny that an overwhelming ma
jority of the people will be accommodated
and relieved OF oppressive burdens by trans
forming thesupreme and appellate courts from
Tyler to Dallas. As it now stands Asa goo
people are best accommodated nj Dsllas,
while only $4,000 are best accom-
modated at Tyler. But when we
consider the unprecedented growth
of the vast west tributary to Dallas
some sixty new countes--rapidly filing up
with people, who would have to pass Dallas
in order to reach Tyler, the enormity of the
wrong is doubly apparent. The legislature,
if representative of the people, as fought to
be, cannot ignore these incontestible facts
The United States, ashamed of tho injustice
gro wn up under the old dominions, and in
view of the wonderful growth of population,
created separate districtfor North Texas,
hence we have federal courts
AT Waco, Dallas and Graham.
Can our homo representatives disregard these
facts? Can they draw men and litigants
hundreds of miles further than necessary to
attend tho court of final resort? We can
not and will not believe it till forced by
actual legal enactment. We honor Tyler
and its people-its citizens, CONS and
daughters. They are unsurpassed by any
people in TeIa', or the union; but Tyler is
too remote from the present centres of popu-
lation to be the place for holding the highest
courts Of tho state. Dallas is infinitely more
central md ten fold moro accessible. WIN
not the legislature take these facts into con
sideration and decide for the greatest
good TO the greatest number?
We think We have briefly shown in the fore
going good reasons why the supreme and
appellate courts should DO located st some
point in Northern Texas in preference to
Tyler. Now We will set forth the grounds
why we think Dallas should be the point
AZ - HAplC SOhbihl III suO FcCtiull w bu seINeu
by the courts than any other place with sur
flcent facilities for their accommodation.
Take radius Of one hundred miles with
Dallas as the centre and we sea that it en-
braces all that region outlined ss tho
supreme judicial district that ncv
goes to Tyler, and we see, too
that it is district that contains vast popu-
lstion and that does an immense deal Of
commercial business. 1t is more accessible
from all directions aud from oil localities
than any other point, because here the Texas
~ Pacific from the east and the west, ind
the Houston &c Texas Central from tao north
and south intersect, the Dallas 81 Wichita
penetrato5 the northwest and by its connec-
ton with the Tran:continenlal reaches into
northeast Texas, the Trnk Line runs
down into the southeast, the
Texas & Pacific gives us connection
with the whole line of the international, the
Texas & st. Louis and the Texas East Line
railroads and the Chicago Texas & Mexican
Central will 60 down to the southwest. These
railroad lines. give Dallas connection with
every section ofthe country that would come
to the supreme and appellate courts stu, ed
in North Texas, with their busine.., and
llligants snd lawyers could como over .hem
without trouble or delay, and have, too tolo.
graphic and daily postal communication with
these courts. Furthermore, Dallas is a largo
and growing. city of constantly increasing
commercial importance. 1t is in fact the
commercial cenlre of all this region, from
and to which its trade is radiating and con
centrating, and as the commercial contre
where al the interests of trade are gathered,
tho courts. ought. for that reason to be To-
Gated here. Inthe matter of hotel accommo,
atoms for the members of the courts and tho
awyers and parties to suits in attendance
upon them, Dallas cannot be surpassed
neither us TO sufIiciency nor quality. And
we have the court house building all ready
and prepared, one Of the handsomest tenn
pies OF justice in all the state, and
the most commodious. With spacious cours
rooms, library rooms, private rooms for the
judges, offices for tho clerks, and vaults for
their books and records Dallas is ready to
receive the courts, and tenders all these "a
ciliIies and accommodations. no other
plsce in north Texas can offer all these res.
sons, all these advantages, in its own bebslf
and why then should not tho courts come to
DallasS Dallas does not ask the courts az ,
matter of right, but simply sets forth
the advantages she offers over
all other places, the conyeniences O,
tho courts themselves and of the
people, and the best interests of the create. =,
number being considered, and upon these
advantages bases her application. In the
older states, New York, Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts,, Illinois, Missouri and others
the courts of last resort are located in the
largest cities, for the reasons that there they
serve best and most promptly the ends the,
are created TO serve. This should be tb,
case here in Texas, too, and following the,
presidents, Dallas presents itself as tn,
point of location for the courts in Nor.t
Texas.
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