The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-21
THE SPIRIT OF PROGRESS.

tuo Ialruul uuhu'Hs thas ~ SouS dheou o.
vigorously. l! is true that these roads in Tn,
main, are being built by capitalists from
abroad who are i ves,ing their money in GU
midst in this sort of enterprise, but they have
infused some of their vim, some OF thei
progressive ideas into the minds and bosomi
Of our people, aud they too have quicken
ing of the blood and have awakened &c
the Importance of those natural resources
with which Texas is endowed. in some
localities the spirit has taken frmer and ;
livelier hold than in others, and the result, It!
VIC can see, If we but look
is that they aro going ahead
faster and are reaping richer reward.
than the slower and sleeper communities
Its pertinent question TO ask does the
city of Dallas keep pace with tle times!
Does she kecp.step to tho music of advance
ment and development that is now sounding
its grandest diapason throughout the limits
of our state! Il it true or not that lethargy
is upon her? Does languor parslyzo hor
limbs and tho inertia of a direiul somnolence
enchain her. Around and about Dallas are
other young cities striving for the CONNER
cial supremacy of north Texas. Fort Worth
and Sherman and Corsicana have entered the
lists with her, and with armor on and vsors
drawn, they have poised u lance each, in the
tourney, remembering that the battle is not
always to the strong, nor the race to the
swift. If eternal vigilance is the price OF
liberty, eternal activity, untiring energy and
liberal enterprise MI combined are the price
of commercial success, of business pros.
perity md Of metropolitan great
ness and power. From Fort
Worth exchange We clip the following:
"Neither Austin nor Galveston are making
satisfactory progress in raising the money
demanded for the construction of narrow
gauge railroads to those cities. Aastin has
seventeen of the fifty thousand required,
while in Galveston only twenty,four of the
one hundred and fifty thousand has been
secured. These cities, and others we know
OF, are not as prompt in their responses 10
the demands made upon them as is our own
brave little city. What would they think if
they were called upon to go through the mill
which Fort Worth has for the last six
manufacturing which time it has raised
nearly two hundred thousand dollars for
works of internal improvement. Fret, $780,
900 for the compress; then $4,000 for tho
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, besides anug
title cum in addition for the right of way
Following this came, the Missouri Pacific.
for asma!l amount, and quick upon its heels
came the Fort Worth and Denver-all of
which has been subscribed and is being paid
Dallas struggled along for months to raise
$4,000 for its mustsng road. Waco pinched
and fused over S3O. 900 subsidy for the
Narrow Gauge, and during tho same time
Fort Worth raised twice as much as both
cities combined, with but little trouble"
This showing speaks we'll for the liberality
and the business acumen of the business men
Of Fort Worth, and the example they have
set is worthy of tho highest commentator,
s"Natural advantages" have wrought more
ruin than ever did postience or famine; they
have wrecked moro hopes, destroyed moro
prospects than ever did psnics or
revolutions. Is II fact that natural
advantages" seem TO DO epidemic in Dallas
at this time? 1t is true that our city is right
in tho immediate midst Of a populous and
most fertilizer region, and there is vast section
Of country adjacent and contiguous, tho
trade of which, there being nothing to divert
it, naturally comes here. These are smeng
the advantages the city can claim, l. is the
Intersection of the great railroads traversing
tina state from east TO ives! and from north
to.soulh. This is auother::one of its advsn,
sgcs. Fora number Of years it stood without.
arrival in all Northern Texas, and AS a
consequence 1t grew TO its present dimensions
and Importance without an effort, Just as the
rank vegetation of alluvisl soil grows from
the very fatness of its source of sustenance,
But a change has taken place. New railroad
enterprises have sprung INFO existence
within the last year that are civ ing
to other points some of the same
railroad facilities that . Dallas
possesses, that arc giving 10 rival points some
Of the same advantages that Dallas has
boosted, that arc enabling 20 some extent
these rival points to penetrate its heretofore
exclusive fields of trade. To hold i.s own,
then, and to continue to grow and advance
upwards and EDWARDS, what must be done9
VIII inactivity and simply watching and
waiting accomplish these ends! These arc
questions that must address themselves d.
reosly to the sound judgments and esrnes ,
consideration Of our business sad moneyod
men-the citizens Of Dallas who have means
and who own property. The outlook for
the city is bright and the opportunity for |.
grand development and commercial prosper .
isy at hand and within easy grasp. Blu, to
win the prize thore must DO libersli.y and
enterprise on tho part Of every citizen 40.
oording 70 bic means. Fort Worth has bean
forced Give up two hundred thousand dol
lars 70 secure facilities r.
! enable her TO presume 70 enter the arena 2.