Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-29

several little coast towns. and stiiI
suler the toiling farmers and
helpless negroes OF the sonth
to be pluHdered 10 poverty bv Land
trantpoitatior, when the penerons
sea invites and softest winds WOO nov.
eIty-strioken cotton-growers 10 use q
highway that God built. However
'Watered', IL never ''salted DOWN. the
poor ana the many In order 10 ao-
grandize the few and the rich.
IN Iaet so extraordinary Is the con-
uuet OF the congress and its tongued
ana grooved board Of engineers In this
persistent refusal 10 build these two
harbors, one east and the other west
OF the Mississippi, that the products of
tne South may have choice
OF routes Qand or water 10 the
worlds markets, that intelligent peo-
pie everywhere have supposed that old
Neptune had refused to give the river
ana harbOr committee and the hoard
OF engineers any stock, wateretS OF
| otherwise, in his commercial ronte
from the gulf Of Mexico TO the outside
world. OF course nobody ever dreamed
that the Louisiana Backbone or any
other honest railways would tamper
with his committee and with these en-
glneers, that the ocean route from the
gult may never compete with that by
land.
EADS LEADS THE WAY.
But 1t has 80 happened that Capt.
Eads Is first to dissolve the spell woven
by habit. He first leads the people
and the congress TO think. He first
shows that these engineers, and river
ana harbOr committees only propose 20
give Galveston such hafbor as Gal
weston and the states and territories
north and west of Texas do not
want. The people know the diff.
ference between great and
small ships. They know that freight
rates on small ships are twice and
thrice greater than ON vessels drawing
thirty feet. The people have learned
that Texas alone loses ON one single
cotton crop, because Eads has not per-
fected his proposed Galveston harbor
and ship channel, not less than S., 000,-
900. An equal annual sum is lost on
other products of the imperial state,
and the people of the West will
no longer tolerate these rob-
berries and palpable wrongs TO
which they are subjected by
river and harbor committees aud by
rad-tape boards of engineers. Texas ia
larger than France, and under free
government, with no monstrous army
or navy 10 maintain, the people will be
richer and more numerous than those
of France, and yet France has con-
structed at BoulOgne and other places
infinitely costlisr harbors than this
which Eads would perfect at Calves
ton, not for Texas alone, but for all
states and territories west Of the Mis-
sissippi.
REAGAN's RAILWAY COMMISSION SUP
PLANTED.
Through series Of years rugged,
hard-headed and self-willed. hurly old
congressman from Texas has lifted up
his foghorn, as did Jacob of old when
he wept, and proclaimed the impera-
tive necessity for code giving local
courts jurisdiction in all cases between
railways and the people. The bill
further compelled railways TO charge
the same rates for the same distances,
and prohibited "poshng" and re
bates.n
The corporations have a greater
number OF representatives in congress
luhll btit DGOlits lIhm1Gl1 III Ab0 hnO
ouses are themselves, or their part
ners at home, said TO be the annually
retaine,. counsel of some great railway
or banking corporation. The govern
ment pays the congressman SoOOo, the
corporation pays a i'm $lO 600, and this
because the lawyer Is ne congressman
therefore the knights b. LABOR ana
other modern political societlsN WIN nor
suffer lawyers TO become member oi
their associations. However uDjusI
this exclusiveness of wOrklDgmen's
societies, 1t Is true that Mr.. Reagan
has utterly failed in securing the APP
prevail by congress as organized OF his
inter state commerce bill. The COM
mon people, the grangers and far-see-
ing populations of the West, have
profoundly sympatbized with Mr..
Reagan and deplored his defeats and
disappointment.
A GREATER THAN REAGAN.
But what signifies Reagan's griefs II
Capt. Eads make the South accessi-
BILE from the sea? If Galveston harbor
bs perfected, even so will be that at
Mobile. Railways will then convey
wealth toward and not from these gull
coast cities. An enormous tax viii
be thus rescinded, and the South will
prosper as never before. The ships OF
all nations Will then seek Southern al
well as Northern ports. They will
not come empty as to-day 10 go away
burdened with the riches of the South.
Galveston and Mobile, " Capt Eada
be permitted to serve both cities, as he
should, will become rivals of New Or
leans.
The highest and costliest goods, and
teas and spices and fruits from the
Islands and tropics will 81 Louis
by rail from Galveston and Mobile,
and through these Eads'-bles' poris,
from Vera Cruz on the one hand and
from Havana ON the other; while
heavy products of this and other coun,,
tries will still find waterway ana
cheapest transportation on Mississippi
steamers and barge lines to and iron
New Orleans. Above all cities ana
centers Of wealth and commerce, ~.
Louis will BIO most aggrandized py
the achievements OF Capt. Eads;