Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-17
Shoulder to Shoulder with Galveston,

give us quietness ana satisiactioh'
. Shoulder to Shoulder with Galveston
= The GAZETTE is free to say, win re
ference to GalvestOn's aspirations con
cerriing national aid for harbor in
provemenis, that it does not regar'
the prospect, this year, rs promising
at least to the extent and in the dlrec
ton desired by Galveston. To star
with, Galveston needs and hopes for
large sum-so large, that under TIN
most suspicious circumstances the DIFF
fculties in the way of securing such al
appropriation would be manifold ant
y rplexing. And, in the second place
il is hardly a forluitous time to so be
fore congress with such request. Al
rule a presidential year is not
healthy season for schemes or meas
ures that require national aid to
large amount. Both parties, no mat
ter which Is in control Of the lower
branch of congress (and the lower
house holds the purse strings) are very
chary, on the eve of Il national cam
psign, of their regulations for econ
omy. 10 such an extent is this car
ried that really meritorious measures,
a the Galveston scht me certainly Is,
have more than once suffered delay
if not total defeat simply because they
were pressed at an inauspicious time,
when congress W more sollcitous
about its record, ~ to expenditures OF
the public money, than internal I'M
prcvements On tiese accounts,
then, we shall be treated to an agreea-
ble surprise if Galveston, this session,
gets any thing more than a patient, in
telligent hearing and fair promises.
But even this will be point gained,
aud il is worth looking after. We re-
gard it as of early importance that
Texas delegation, equipped with all
the facts and arguments bearing on
the deep.water problem, shall visit
Washington and state the case TO the
congressional committees having
charge of the subject of harbOr luz
provements. And it is sound policy |
on the part of Galveston and the state
To follow the course mapped OUT by The |
Galveston meeting the other night AID |
make up their delegation so that il !
shall not he II purely local Effort. Ii is
sound policy TO call in such men as
our worthy mayor and representative
citizens OF all the leaninL cities and
towns of the state. The moral effect
If such "A movement will be great Il
Is perhaps not unnecessary To con- !
vince our congressman, as well ,
Is others. that this is Il matter in VIII ch
Ill Texas il interested; that it rises far
IbOve local bounds. and that the COM y
nerciai and industrial dsuelopment a
md progress Of he state are largely in q
'olved in its successful accomplish
nent. The legis allure can also cO-ope- a
ate, 10y the passage OF appropriate me. f
mortal and resolutions. The ball can Il
hus be set in motion this year and in
rood time the Results will come. Per- >
iaps We may underestimate the dis a
position OF congress, as tn immediate G
nd favorable action; il may depart 6
rom precedeuts aud prove more
'rompt and liberal than we appreheud. p
{ So, the GAZETTE will Ice rejniced to b
ind its approximations gruundless. y
'ut, at all events, it must bc cunceded !,
hat the lirst and most i'm ortant mat Ii
er is TO get the movement under way II
nj before congress, aud Texas dele d
alton is practical step in the pro- ;
We regard this as "A state n
latter and in its capacity as n state
aper the GAZETTE will work cheer III
lily and Increasingly for successful -, -,
Let Galveston lead hi
he way and we feel sure the state at be
rye will stand should to shoulder
it'll her