The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-04
SOUTHWARK THE STAR OF EMPIRE
TAKES ITS WAY.

| Nature, With a most partial hand, dis
tributes her benefits. Those who make
homes in hyperborean regions and subsist
on the pareimonious bounty OF n country
too dismal to afford u lodging place for one
spark OF patriotic fire certainly have NO
compensation enabling them to compare
conditions with people o. luch f.vored
lands as Is any portion OF the United
| States, and having summed up sll around
| 10 declare an average struck. There 10 no
mitigation to their evil lot and there arc no
boundaries 10 the immensely OF the bless
ings this country is endowe with. But to
narrow things down more, II we compare
the cotton belt TO the New England states
and TO the country along the Northern
Pacific route, again 70 the moraliss
perplexsd who would declare that compen-
sation stands In the store house and secures
balance for all. In the blossoms, the
harvest, the cool summer breezes and the
winters tempered to mildness we read
our title clear to the seat of the chosen,
aud when our dispatches tell us OF the visi-
tations that rudely disturb our neighbors
north of us, commiserating their wretohed
lot we can only invite them to leave their
@ I'D inhospitable country and come to us to
be OF us. But the purpose OF this article is
10 show. not the advantages already the
property OF the south, apparent to all eyes,
but new benefits to be had for the effort
And In doing so We Will show that
Dallas Is 40 completely Involved IL
all the greatness attsinable az any other
city In the SOUTH perhaps 3 little more 60.
Tho true route across the continent, north
OF Mexico Is from Norfolk, Charleston, vii.
m;ngton, New Orleans or Gavsston-ip
either case via Dsllss-to San Francisco.
This is route across region where the
children, native to the soil read about snow
and ice, aud regard it as fairy stories. 1t 10
q. land Of blossoms and rich fields that
not only promise, but yield q thousand fold
OF corn and wine and othsr products. En-.
rope has ascertained that The old route from
New York to California across Nebraska 10
one 10 be avoided when so
much better is offered. At this time, at
Antwerp, choice convocation OF progress.
sive spirits, headed by hs majesty LEOPOLD
H., king OF the Belgiaus, is celebrating on
new route across the ocenn between
America and the new world, by which that
unnatural and hideous old port, Liverpool,
Is to be left out Ia the coid and Lisbon or
Cadiz to be promoted-one or the other
aud made the grand European entry
port. The new route will be south
OF the fortieth parallel and nearly
lknA 10 Lao t.o
The merchants of Spain and Portugal favor
the new southern route. That nov fol-
lowed Is subject to client storms and float.
ing icebergs, all of which will be avoided by
the change. The herbors at Lisbon or Ca
dIz are good, ard that at Norfolk, Virginia,
is the best on the Atlantic coast OF the !
United States Belgian engineers pro-
nouncs the port OF Liverpool the most Diff
ficult OF all to approach, and declare
that owing to the long journey from
Queenstown to the Mersey, Liverpool must
soon become degraded IN importance and
cease 10 be Europe's chief port. Going
due east from New York. Lisbon Is the ma
tural eastern terminus of tho ocean trip.
Thus shorter route Is secured by many
hundred miles. and one along a calm and
emperate ocean road, SO that, winter and
hummer alike. steamers will enjoy i'm
punity from disastrous storms, from ice.
,eres, from rough seas, from multiplied
,erilv, and travel will increase TO
n extent even KING LEOPOLD
"a bis friends do not contemplate. With
10 water at Galveston another cutoff
occur, and when the time comes that
Z man will take the morning cars for
lnxss coast, take steamer ct sunset.
be Canary Islands three days later.
ysn days after be leaves the Dallas