The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-14
SILLY STUFF.

| The Boston Herald TeprUduces In lis col
umns The instance OF that resident OF Lon
don, recently IL tbs city and said TO be
representing an Eug'ish and Scotch sind
cate that desired toinvesg 100000 pounds
Bterl Ing in Texas lands, and who returned
| to his home making reports adverse 20 the
status Of Texas as q IIw-sbiding ttatr.
| This is the way the EVIL works and trayt O..
! So prominent Is T,yas in the eyes
OF this country and the world,
that whatever is done within her
borders is watched with the keenest OF in
terest. And unhappily, also, 60 tenacious is
the memory OF the evil days when the
state vas being SO rapidly setied up and
was lull OF a lawle. sness that came with
the people who emigrated from the older
sta ties, that it 10 thought by many We are In
the same old chronic condition. When
this is SO with the citizens OF neishbors OF
the south we can the less wonder that
the Imagination should be wilder
in more distant localities. The gentleman
in question who left US disappointed and
disguised" was evidently not q man OF good
judgment, brond-viewed, and Of clear die
Ger rmen'. II he was here to invest some
So 000. 900 as stated, and was surprised ct
the temporary fence cutting difficulties, he
could have we'll afforded to wait month or
ii o to observe the working of the legitla
ton had to suppress the evil. He would
have then seen how QUICKLY and de,ermn-
eddy the legislators do their work In he
inter OF peace, law and good order. He
would have witnessed how completely the
m .rauding, depredating cutters would
ce lse their operations, ss they have done.
when the law placed its fat with adequate
penalties upon them.
1t is perhaps fortunate for the syndicate
that the agent did return to their domicil
II his judgment was 90 bad in the case re-
viewed 1t 10 more than probable that he
would equally have erred in selections Tor
invest meDts of their funds. CAPTAIN
ADAMS, banker here, and COLONEL sIxr-
SON. representative himself of great for
eisn capital, were at that time holding ard
making the most important investments
In Texas securities, with feelings OF the ut
most safety. The bonds OF the state were
far hey ond par and out OF range Of pur.
chase save at an annual interest not
exceeding per cent, and the citiEccs
OF the Unified States in possession
of them declining now to sell even under
such condition oil things. He would have
esceriained that lands worth so cents per
acre couple OF years ago anywhere In
Texas could not be bought now OF less than
50. He would have learned that owners
Of such land, even in the fence-cutLing Sec
lions, far from desiring to cell, would only
too glsoly have bought more could they
procure II a, reasonable figures. He repre-
sented country where capitalists are only
too delighted to obtain per cent. annual
interest on good securities; he had every
oppor unity to invest here for them at 800
per cent. In advance of that figure, so
anxious are citizens 10 secure funds to i'm.
prove their vi aces or their businesses. And
yet he returns 70 England to report that
Texas is worse of than Ireland, so far as
of property 10 concerned" Texas
can survive euch silly statements. but in |
the meanwhile they hurt.