The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-20

IIlufN IN INlIN W. lINI NINH II iNN NVI'ff.
nhcs NJ ih.uW ht leg8 ~ ihe talm aal
Hf red would bo 1mu nlF ilthtg Ntff n0l
si difhtifItnlug q they sInyc lcgl'la'td
lof fls Iniofe.l az thH rDads says one, $1,000
thpy aIII ro. m1fo huiine1s NJ Tho rricr We
He, bcou.e tho PoyDryr announcer thc
ndV .nIiulg u doing something
ns pcr his csll; baoaue those
corporations are growing too sir0nRi flcli
and powerful, nnd ~ un nl li5itilm ~
nc ID isn METER Of surprise that tie bill
DID not pmbofy the emergency clause aud
mike the Hct operative nj once. THIS would
merely have been Of piece uf INC dark
lantern work already done. Besides on
this, there are now offered over one dozen
bills, some Oc them undertaking 10 regulate
ana tx weights, one Of the most intricate
and complex problems that even puzzle
skilled railroad experts. Surely, surely,
here Is q case where
FOOLS RUSH ~ WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO
TREAD"
What mischief viii be effected before ad-
iournment it is hard to pre-
dict. Let us sec what they
already have most probably accomplished.
They have reduced passenger fare, they
say. For whom? For immigrants :?
1t was already much below. the
now established standard For children
charge every child no matter Of what age,
to make up the required deficit. Have
they benefited the people, their constitu-
| ents? VIII not the companies increase the
prices Of freight, so as to make the farmer,
| the merchant and others pay more than
the amount of difference between the 3
| cents and the cents, and so make those
who remain at home pay for those who ride
about for pleasure, business or otherwise
| Will not the cotton and the -four and the
| corn and the bacon and beef producers and
consumers suffer by this
| POLITICAL DEMAGoGUERY?
Some politicians will only too quickly
! learn, when truth shall assert itself, that
this effort toward cheap, popular favor W as
more was worse than an abortion. Again,
the result may be that hereafter the COM
panies will put on but one train per day,
the mail with only one passenger coach, or
perhaps not that one. Passengers will have
to take the "mixed trains" and thus con-
sumo twenty hours, instead OF ten hours,
to get between points, and to save the DIFF
ference oftwo cents per mile, lose ten hours,
which latter, however, to the average legls-
lator, may not be Of much value. On the
same principle we had better abolish the
use of telegraph, and transact business re-
! curing dispatch through the slower mails
alone.
The influence exerted abroad will be most
injurious. Foreign capital that had been
| mourning in upon us. that kept our people
ahoat and happy when our crops were short
and when other southern states were suffer-
ing, will cease to How hither under this
| pIsCoURAGING BLOW AND BLIGHT.
70 the same reasons, manufactures that
NAV in the future 0e established may be
similarly treated. The impression goes
abroad that capital is unsafe OF investment
here: that our people are hostile to i'm
I nc ON anVnnrpmpnt when
I thus seek 10 drive 1.-The great civilizer' from
Attention was called in the short and
nlick discussion Of the measure,
TO the act thai Texas was yet but sparsely,
settled, and the present figure would
scarcely pay the roads, especially beyond
the Tooth meridian. " No comparisons with
other states were madd to show the facts.
Let us now look at some that might have
been urged: Between New York and Phil
adclphia some 10 or more passenger trains
runs each day, each way, and they all go
crowded. beng in the very heart-oi popula-
ton. The cost Is cents per mile, apd there
are Two competitive lines, as we all Know.
Between Baltimore and Washington City, a
stream of human beings is constantly pour
ing to and fro, and yet the iare is cents
per mile. /, myself paid on both routes
last month this fare. Between New York
and San Francisco, the fare is cents per
mile for 3, 200 miles. These are facts as re.
CARDS heavy travel and long distance, and
yet the Texas legislator demands that
where conditions are reversed the fare shall
be the same. And this too, in the face Of
the liherality of our roads that sell loo
mile tickets at the cents figure. What
can we hope for our state when such dis
cretion and views are seen to prevail at this
capitol? We must merely fold our arms
for the time being, and consolingly muir,
muir to ourselves as they pursue their mad
methods to extremes, "They know not
what they do" and
THE HOPE OF DEATH IS REsURREcTIoN,
but it would seem to be elsewhere than in
this session that we must look FOR sucl
realization. j. L. Il.