The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-19

Pacific, The Missouri Pacific has passed
from Deaison. on Red River, by way of
Nhiteshoro, Pilot Point, Fort Worth, Al
varado, and HillSboro, ON lis way 70 the
I northwest The Texas Trunk, born under
I The new constitution, without lurS or ioath-
theirs. has been completed TO kaufman.
/ thlrty-toUr miles, and is graded fora hum
/ dred miles further toward Sabine Pass,
with millions Of cross ties ON tbs line aud
twenty miles Of additional iron. The Chi
| cago, Texas X Mexican Central Is graded
| from Dallas iif(y-three miles southwest to
Clcburne and is laying track on il and
! grading northeast 10 meet a ST. LOuis road.
The 81, Louis Narrow Gauge has been built
nom IeNarkana TO the vicinity Of Bolton,
and IS building branch 10 Dali
las from Mount Pleasant The Galveston,
Harrisburg & San Antonio has been ex-
tended from Columbus, ON the Colorado, to
point hundred miles from san Antonio
on the route to meet the Southern Pacific
from San Francisco, already Ia miles in
Texas from FL PaSo. The Corpus Christi
road has been extended from SAN Diego TO
Laredo, there meeting the International
and Mexican system of roads. Nineteen
other roads are under way in different parts
of the state, and all this, Mr.. Editor, under
the constitution of 1876, which, il was
said would keep out foreign capital and
ruin the state.
I, Il was said the new constitution would
stop immigration into the state; vet in its
five years existence more immigrants have
come in than in any previous ten years.
5 More towns have been established,
more shops, more seminares, more churches,
more capital introduced and more inn
migrants received in the five years under
the present constitution than in any preyi-
Gus ten or fifteen years in the history of
this state
., Ten times as much school land has
been sold in these five years as ever sold
before in all past time.
10. The free schools are in better condi-
ton, with better teachers and continue
longer in the year than ever before
IL. Texas bonds, which were hawked on
the streets ofNew York without bidders are
now held so high that the holders will not !
yet yield them up to the state for redemp. |
ton in cash. They want l46 cents for each |
dollar of the bonds, which, above all things, |
gives the lie direct to the assertion that the |
new constitution would rum the credit Of
the state. 1t is ruined at the rate of As per
cent. profit.
r. \ dozen of the largest counties in the !
state are ont of debt, have good court |
houses and jails and money in the trasury. |
l3 The court Of appeals, having appel |
late jurisdiction in criminal matters, is up |
with its business at its three seats Of sitting,
Tyler Galveston and Austin, so that JUS |
tice is properly administered.
Ii. The county courts, dallas being |
largest county in the state in that respect |
are up with their business, and only the SUI |
preme court is behind. These facts prove
much in favor Of the present judicial sys- |
tenn
Is. Instead of checking or stopping I'M
migration, under the present constitution |
the inflow is greater than ever before. IT is !
twice as great as under the Davis admins
tration with an cytrayagant inn
migration bureau; and Yet our
real bureaus, by railroad companies as land
owners, provided Tor by Texas as early as
1874, have but recently been organized 4
little time will show their utility on q scale
that will drive into cayerns of darkness
those twilight moths in newSpaperdom who
predicted that the new constitution would
stop immigration into Texas
rs. Under the new constitution, not only
has the public debt been largely reduced
and large surplus accumulated in the
treasury for its further reduction
but the taxes on the property
Of the people have been reduced ,dit from
fifty to forty cents on the hundred dollars
and the next legislature of 1928 will be
able to bring it down to twenty-five cents
on the hundred dollars.
These are few thoughts which occur to
me worthy of the consideration of every
freeman who desires to vote and act as an
intelligent and patriotic citizen. Instead of
whining and growing, it occurs to me that
every citizen of Texas has abundant cause
for being satisfied with our existing finda-
mental laws, and our Unprecedented pro-
gress under them, Defects do exist, beyond
doubt; but they will never be cor
rected by the howlings of men,
who are mere partisan moths, sucking for
dew-drops and care nothing for the real
prosperity and glory of Texas, Whenever
time proves changes to be necessary, the
people will vote for them; but they cannot
be hoodwinked by the cry Of wolf and
famine, while prosperity, progress and hap
pineSs are everywhere apparent.
To recaptuate: If the howlings of the
puny few in the last five years had any
sense in them, whence comes the present
unheard-of prosperity of Texas? Whence
comes the twenty millions ofdollars invest
ed in Texas railroads in lSSO-Sl? Answer
that, We grOwlers. TEXAN.