The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-03-27
wIIAr DAILAs DOINGf

This 4 a per inont question, especially OF
this time, when No asa 90 many ne'Rhhof'
ing towns, and some 81 them oommerc.f.
rivals, 20 wid,.lVake aud stirring in lheI
own behalf. Dallas is inpToying wonder
fully, one uu answer llst see .he new
houses goiug 40 on every hand within nov
oraorto hmis, handsome, iuusiHHih
boainOA BONUSES aud orneia, ptntTssideno'-
rais To true, but who is doing ths buillips'
ia che maiu m8u 90 email means who ave
bulldog ~ the oily for whaH thAi the
weather c.ssses may proht by H. fon
can. star. public enterprise mere that
there aro uJg hundreds ot meu
lb cry OUT against 70. Every
body knows that street railroads are an adj
vantage 10 a city. They attract % It pop
ulat'on, they enhance the value OF ell
properly adjacent and contiguous TO their
line, YET when 10 Is proposed 10 increase
the stree, RAILROAD facilities o, our city by
the building Of bel. and other roads tina. 81,
classes OF people may easily reach their
HON - aud places Of business, and that the
chi irsn OF ,ha city may have easy access 70
the ohools, hundreds u old iohes, hun
DIRE Is OF ihe people with antodtluvian idea
rai @ 8 howl OF opposition, Trey want il
On tho ucxt s,reet TO them II there hAa to no
street railroad, bu, as walking WAS good
enough FOR their fathers ibey dont ~,
why ths PEOPLE can't still wnlk.
a cotton mill was started here nssrly or
qaile year ago, and the HsuALn WIKI %
few ,rpri5ing men, tried hard TO gel. Is
on o.. but 10 died Of insnitilr. TIE very
class Of people, the real esta s owner4, thg
wlolell!s merchants and cine roi.1 mer-
chants, and tho bankers, Ia lsw OK
oep oni, always sad yes 10 was O good
thing; t1ey would Ike 10 pc Il built; u
woul ht!u Dallas, ami was just VIVA; the
| city lcl1j, out not cent OF stock would
they tlte, They were willing 10 see Others
put tlsit shoulders 10 the wheel, put the
ball IN no lon and bring the measure 10 d
colsuumat. and then they would eel,
back aud resp the beneHts to result from Z
! What is Dalls8 doing toward securing
/ fur her railroad nc.lities2 Not a thing ia
tNe world. 1t is true the Texas Trunk Inns
is progressing slowly 20 the southeA5t cud
is barring Tor The pine region which can
and will be made tributary - QUE city with
its rich stores OF lumber and It's trade, hul
there are bnl fer dollars OF Dallas money
advancing this road and but small scin-
lila OF Dallas enterprise or Dallas BRAN on
braun is being eKpeudel in is behalf We
need shat tho Dallas & Wichita road sAou j
be extended from Denton 10 Decatur 'n
Wis., county that the trade OF that section
shou d be secured to us. We n0s1 that q
uarrow-gauge railroad ehould DO bult
from here 10 R)ckwall and thence
to q connection with the Textg Esst Lin.
running from Jefferson via Sulphur Spring
Gud Grsonville 70 McKioney md through
the rich, 81 region OF northeast Texas .ha'
i d las might reap the rch.c1mmcrc,,1gt that
8action. Rockwell is willing and anxioui
TO JON Fro and help in sach an enterprise
bat ghat DO we see? TIC trade 90 Decatur
en- ths northwest Is suffered 10 80 else
where aud the Commerce OF the nor heaBt
must peri0rce hud its way to railroad vHy
s.anoua, al hecsuse Of the lack on energy,
the supi6eneag, the fuperlalive penurious-
ness OF Dallas merchants, Dalias real 90.
tate owners, Dallas monsycd men
They will all tell you these
things ought 10 be done, but they will not
turn their hand over even, will not spend n
dollar In their behslf. They will talk
glibly about the natural advantages OF Dali
las and what great city Dallas is destined
b become, but they show neither energy,
enterprise or liherality in developing thoss
natural advantages in helping TO build up
that great city Of ths future. Hades 1,
sbundantly supplied with nStural advant-
ages, has myriad roads Of easy access 10 It's
Confines still IL, satanic ruler is never idle in
showing up those advantages and securing
population for his suphurou1 domaie.
Death hasn't besn kind to Dallas, else
there are lot OF old ogies
mossOack dcvotees Of ths almighty dollsr
wac would ere this be sleeping "in drll,
cold marole.', that younger, more proGros-
siy', IN 70 enterprising aud liberal aucces
sors m GIT take the deslinies Of the city IN.
TO heir hands and drive It or to that sue
cess g. essiiy 60 DO grssped.
/ We haven't even got decent county
r9sds. Tho black mud ard slush n IN we 3
lsosons keep not less than 100000 Of trade
annually, from Dallas, but no effort il made
b. remedy this evil and saws this money o.
orr city. We must have more railroads, ea
poclally tho two named above. Dial as can
spare Gao money and Dallas can GId
The energy TO build them
at once If she will awake TO her interests;
awake to her absolute necessities, We
must have good county roads 800 aud il we
can't g,ts commissioners court free from
the elhsIgy Of Rip Van Winkle sumber
upon it, the business men, this wholesale
aud retail merchants and the property men
must tate the matter in hand themselves
and see 30 Il that they are constructed.
Neighboring counties are building good
mscsdsmized roads and Dallas must uos
lay behind. But above ali things let the
business men, the properly owners and the
moneyod men build the two railroads
abote mentioned. They are zine qua
non.
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Philadelphia
Times writes from Ho. Springs, Arkansas:
The associate editor OF the Horseshoe was