The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-27
HAS WEEKLY lIERALD
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ELopurSr ARGUMENTS on ran RAIL
WAY REGULATIONS PROBLEM.

We publish In this issue the adut'"o'V
CoLaNrt JonpAN and MAJoR u. W. OA'h
on the subject OF railway legi'latlon' ana
delivered In the hall OF the house oI repre-
sentatiyes. at Austin, on The 10th in't' be-
fore the committees of internal improve
ment. II any officials are entitled TO DC
heard on the subjects whereof they treated !
If any citizens should be listened to by the
people of Texas, as TO one oil the great
and leading interests OF the STATE
they be the Sc gentlemen. For forty years
has the large, executive abilities and the
clear thinking, painstaking and morally
accurate mind Of COLONEL JORDAN been
deoyted TO the business in which lie is yet
engaged All through the graduation
he has passed, and as he passed he stored
ayav mass of knowledge that directly APP
pertained to the great eliminating point to
which he has attained in the responsible
uosition he now holds as chief executive OF
one Of our strongest railway arteries.
The legislature knew this, and that is
why, from commencement TO close
vof his temperate yet eloquent effort they
listened with the wrapt attention TO every
word that fell from his lips, In calm, col
lected, dignifed manner and with well
cadenced voice, he delivered what we now
reproduce.
Following him came Major +. W. CAVE
the treasurer of the Houston & Texas Cen
trail railroad company. We have heard
this gentleman on previous occasions ana
he has been invariably happy in his work,
but on the evening now referred to he sur
passed himself, not only in the manner OF
his delivery, but in the excellent,
meihodical, logical makeup of his great
argument on a most momentous subject.
Facts and figures he had collected and
masscd in strong array. Exceedingly
felicitous in his illustrations and comRari-
sons, he carried conviction to many MIND
BIASED ere it heard him. Having held
various public positions of honor during a
quarter of a cen:ury's residence in the state,
and faithful to the full in all, idenlhed
with Texas in the development OF her
every interest, he understood and felt that
a blow to the railway interests was
a stab at the welfare OF the state.
Hence, for two-fold reason, he threw MS
heart and soul into his effort and furnished
what the reader must admit is an eXhaus-
tive presentation in the department to
which he saw fit to confine his attention.
With the information to be gathered from
these representatives, legislators and Cit
liens, will be better appraised as to the eX-
t-eme delicacy of the problem of regulating
railways that these shall not be hurt and
the public benefited in truth. For
it must ever be remembered that the
legislature of Texas is body intended
and supposed to faithfully represent the
state in its entirety, to Nook impartialy
after all its interests. The railway interest
is as much the object of its ohcst care and
guardianship as is the mercantile or the ag-
ricultural or the manufacturing or other
interests. There is, ther} should be, no
more antagonism against any one OF them
than another. When there)is wrong done
then the people of the great state OF Texas
are to such extent and in shch manner mis-
represented before the world, and the great
cause of right and justice Just so far shame
lessly treated. Citizens desire justice,
right, fair treatment, and what constitute
Asksse the press Of thesIhte and the voice oil
the pleai1ef will in all due time advise
Them