The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-04
sr.rE pskss REVIEW.

AGAINST efforts DeinS naue ~ Sel oeep WA
,sr for Houston, because l. cannot be done
until Galveston is frs. supplied, and wher
Galveston has an sbundsuce OF water ovtl
hsr bar there will be no need for u ship chan
nal to Houston. TIE OOrscana Independ
ant SAWS on this subject:
Our fellow-c.izen and worthy Congress
man r O NJ lis is hard at work getting up
an en,husiesm on the subject Of deep wa.
ts,n for Houston. THIS is right. The
crest state of Texas cannot afford 10 be tieu
nm 10 only one, two or three deep wafer av.-
enues to mother ocean, and it is utter folly
Car ANY one port to expect any such thing.
Wa trust the people of Houston will open
their eyes to The necessity Of united and per-
s;stent efforts to accomplish the object ia
view. Not only Houston, but Texas as u
whole, is deeply interested in the matter, and
Il behooyes her citizens 10 aid her Congress
sionsl Representatives al that lies in their
mower to procure the nece sary funds TO have
he work an accomplished fact.
The Waco Telephone publishes an editorial
hlly two thirds of column long to show
vby labor is scarce in this state despite the
great flow Of immigration. n the first place
labor isn't scarce, but very plentiful on the
railroads and that tells the whole tale. But
the Telephone says:
Reference is frequently made by Texas peo-
ple to these two Questions, In the torn of
complaint that the latter is SO scarce and the
former SO unreliable. For several years i'm,
migration has been quito limited, it is true,
but at the present time strong and power.
full current has set Texss>ward. There is
scarcely community in the state, however
small or unimportant, but has felt the pres
ence of strangers. Andyet labor is unusual-
" scarce In many portions of the state
crops are neglected and liable to ruin, for the
lack of labor TO attend to them. The casual
observer is FREQ emily at loss to understand
the situation, jumping st the conclusion that
the uuwsnted immigration shouts produce
90 abundance OF laboFefs-a natural bu. not
pecesssy conclusion. The peple who are
coming to Texas are neither al capitalists
nor all day aborers. They belong to all
classes and all conditions The presence Of
these people in Texas Ia due primarily to &
single cause, and to this cause wo must
turn TO harmonic several apparent
Inconsistencies existing between An
increased immigration and de-
creased labor supply. The state, a. a
commonwealth, negatively discouraged i'm
migration, and people took the hint and
stunned Texas. But railroads came TO the
rescue, ard On the crest of the wonderful
boom came thousands Of immigrants. Many
Of them came as the necessary accessories Of
The vari us new rosds, and all of them came
because of these roads. Respectable railway
Corporations are pioneer corps of capital,
and where they pave the way none need fear
to follow. So when the combined railroad
powers of the country made Texas their
headquarters, every industry of the land sent
lis uuteers to occupy the territory csptur-
cd by railway advances.
Another pleasure ola newspaper comes
forward with gratuitious advice 10 farmers.
This time it is the Rusk county News which
lays, and say IL exceedingly knowingly too
iut like it was thoroughly familiar with the
subject:
10 some counties in this state the acreage
in cotton is reported to be four times greater
than 1t was last year. If such should be
general thing all over the south, cotton would
b worth very little, but we are much in
hopes that such is not the case. Our people
are raising too much cotton for their own
good. This article at present is worth from
to 8 cents per pound, while bacon is sell
Ing at about II or 10 cents, and the proba-
oites are that it will be still higher later in
tne season. Tho farmers Of this section have
tied it Thoroughly, and they affirm that it
does not pay to have smoke house in ST.
Louis, but still they plant their cotton and
p'y no attention to their hogs, or at least
ney 90 not pay enough attention to them.
This stats Of affairs must be brought TO a
elo:e before a great while, and II had just as
vel! DO commenced at one time as another.
The Brenhsm Banner noticing the fact
saata furniture mandatory was about to
be started in New Orleans, has tho following
tosay:
Furniture should be manufactured in the
south as cheap as it is in Cincinnati, which
.M"y now supplies more than half of
v the Alleghsney mountains. An
loundance of fine walnut timber
Brows in Texas, but instead of its being made
0'o furniture at home it is now being cut
va shipped to European porti; copsidera-
&c quantity of 1t having been shipped from
plehham. Beyond the manufacture Of an
Ssalonal coffin at some out of the way
Coih' there is no cabinet work done in the
'Se to amount to anything, in fact
nos! Of the collins used are the
iosuc! of northern factories;
ue,e Is not even coffin factory in ~ state,
Sa perhaps not one in y ,niio south.
aere Is, in this state. -. abundance Of all
mos OF timber suitshln loc he msnufac-
furniture, and i. is little astonishing
us no effort has been made in that direc.
W., and In addition to importing all of the
.!anure used, buggies, carriages, wagons
waeeloarrows are imported. The south,
ptIlculary Texas, is great market for
aVleles manufactured in the east and in
wnonh, It's not TO be expected that this
ave Will become manufacturing state in
y0s q year. but efforts in that direction
SJ,a DO made; every dollars. worth Of
es made at home adds to the worth of
' BY keeping the money here instead
sending away.
"shave always considered Terrell ono of
most important towns within hundred
ua Of Dallas. With Denton, Corsicans,
soufne and Weatheriord 1t will grow and
'eop and increase in prosperity. Sher.
y and Denison and Gainesville will grow
prosper, too, and these places that we
" named with Terrell arc tho only ones