The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-17
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| member OF tho legislature acsinB "h'o'
oath, can deny that an overwhelming mn
jorty Of tho people will DO accommodated
and relieved OF oppressive burdens by trans
forming thesupreme aud appellate courts from
Tylcr 10 Dallas. As IL now stands 4s4,0Uo
people are best accommodated at Dallas,
while only $4,000 are best accom-
modated at Tyler. But whep we
consider the unprecedented growth
of the vast west tributary to DALAI
some sixty new .counties--rapidly filling up
with people, who would have to pass Dallas
10 order TO reach Tyler, the enormity OF the
wrong is doublv apparent. The legislature
il repre- sentative of the people, as fought to
be, cannot ignore these incontestible facts.
The United States, ashamed of the injustice
gro wn up under the old dominions, and III
view ofthe wonderful growth of population,
created a separate district for North Texas,
hence we have federal courts
at Waco, Dallas and Graham
Can our homo representatives disregard these
facts? Can they draw men and htigants
hundreds of miles further than necessary TO
attend the court of null resort? We can
not and will not believe it till forced by
actual legal enactment. We honor Tyler
and its .people-its citizens, sons ana
daughters. Tney are unsurpassed by any
people in Texas, 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 the state. Dallas is infinitely more
central and ten fold more 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 be located at some
point in Northern Texas in preference TO
Tyler Now we will set forth the grounds
why we think Dallas should be the point
It is more central in the section to be served
by the courts than any other place with sur
ficient facilities for their accommodation.
Take radius of one hundred miles with
Dallas as the centre and we see that 1t en-
braces all that region outlined as the
supreme judicial district that now
goes to Tyler, and we see, too,
that it is district that contains vast popu-
lation and that does au immense deal OF
commercial business. 1t is moro accessible
from all directions and from all localities
than any other point, because here the Texas
& Pacific from toe east and the west, and
the Houston g. Texas Central from the north
and south intersect, the Dallas d Wichita
penetrates the northwest and by its connec-
ton with the Transcontinental reaches into
northeast Texas, the Trnk Line runs
down into the southeast, the
Texas s. Pacific gives US connection
with the whole line of the International, the
Texas s. St. Louis and the Texas East Line
railroads and the Chicago, Texas " Mexican
Central will go down to the southwest. These
railroad lines give Dallas connection with
every.section the country that would come
to the supreme and. appellate courts situated
in North Texas, with their business, and
litigants and lawyers could come over them
without trouble or delay, and have, too, tale
graphic and daily postal communication with
these courts. Furthermore, Dallas is large
and growing city of constantly increasing
commercial importance. 1t is in fact the
commercial centre of all this region, from
and 10 which its trade is radiating and con-
centrating, aud as the commercial contre
where all the interest. of trade are gathered,
the courts ought for that reason to be To-
Gated here. In the matter of hotel accommo-
dations for the members of the courts and the
awyers and parties to suits in attendance
upon them, Dallas cannot be surpassed,
neither as to suficiency nor quality. And
we have the court house building all ready
and prepared, one CT the hsndsomest tenn
Piles of justice in all the state, and
the most commodious. With spacious court
rooms, library rooms, private rooms for the
Judges, Offices for the clerks, aud vaults for
their books and records Dallas is ready 10 |
receive the courts, and tenders all these IA
ciii.ies and accommodations. No other |
place in north Texas can offer all these rea-
sons, all these advantages, in its own behalf, |
and why then should not the courts come to |
Dallas? Dallas docs not ask the courts as
matter of right, but simply sets forth
the advantages che offers over
all other places, the conveniences of
the courts themselves and Of the
people, and the best interests Of the greatest
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 NEST promptly the endsthey |
are created 10 serve. This should be the
case here in Texas, too, and following these
precedenis, Dallas presents itself ss the
point OF location for the courts in North |
Texas.
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