The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-26
A TINE TO BE CAUTIOUS.

A'Ss wy hVuu WIS etntc III lie eeNerA stt-
tons, but from Alabama, Tennessee and
Kentucky and from farther off Indiana, come
the most discoursging, indeed the most dis
tressing, reports in regard to the crops. In
all these and in other quarters the crops have
hriyeled and the bright prospects tina.
spsrkled like diamonds Of dew in ths
Jaly sun and smilel in the promise of plenty
are in this August month all sombred in the
full garb of decay. Even the white king
that courted for its healthy development tie
beams of the day gcd has succumbed 10 the
length ard intensity Of tho drouth, and lost
lis toUghness, tenacity and vitality. Here
and there We Lave been blessed with local
rains that have brought some healing to the
fevered earth and Its parcIing crops, but IS
rule, the typhoid character Of the season has
Ell old mother earth erless to supply
the needed nourishment to the children that
were springing from her bosom. The stern
effect Of all this conironts III sill, former,
merchant, transporter, speculate. and others,
Wehsve been recently reveling ia tie midst Of
prosperity and glowing prospects, row the
conditions that warranted The pursusnes Of q
lreer coas1e must necessarily restrict us. We
mad best look the unhappy fact in the facs
and prepare our household accordingly: for
the fact does indeed exist. Ia Indiana, rs
We'll as in Tennessee and Kentucky, so severe
have been .Ae drouth and heat tbst
not only have the crops been
burned and. sered TO destruction
but even the fences are in such powder dry
state that thousands of dollars have sl,eady
been lost to the people by conhagraticn of
the farm fences and produce from the n s.est
contact with sparks from the locomotive ,nd
the planters in the reighborhood Of .hoir
Route are in constant dread
If Pluvius shall much lonec-
Withhold the absolutely needed supply of RAIN
the crop shortage and oorrelative troubles
will DO immense 10 viewof this it behooves
every prudent man to see TO the curtailnent
of his expenses. to live s!fictly within his
means, to make no Investments or
speculations that he ecu not clearly
see his ability TO freely protect at
maturity. Our undertakings within
the past two or three years
have been on such an extensive scale; we
have expended 60 many millions of dollars
in capital of the "lockod UPS order, that
must remain for some time yet gro it shall
produce returns, that if a crisis should come
the debtor would find it perhsrsimpossiblo
to stay the approaching tread e snSrnptcy.
Ii any state is in condition 20 weather
through the distress that would seen, to be
upon US, we should say that Te-as ia, and
yet the people of Texas must needle observe
the caution rs we'll as any one else. II
misfor tuna come and we survive, it vii. be a
fine advertisement for the state. Trae, there
have been cetween twenty and thirty million
dollars expended or brought into the
state By the great railroad con-
'trucsion wishin even the past .wslve
months, but even these enterprises require
limo to bring them into compromising de.
'elopment, and in the day of troubls they
night aid Is but feebly. Until some cii-
matte change shall occur we urge cars pru-
ence and caution upon the country, and
PARTICULARLY. upon our own citizens, in what
yer pursuit in life they may be engaged,
re- the poisoned drift of debt shall sap tire
DOT of the flower safety.