The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-16
And FREE TRADE.
WHAT ABOUT OUR IRON oR1s7
Dan the East Texas mines he worked
la Competition with Pennsyiysnia
without Protect ionG-Tbe Cheap
ruoi Question, Etc

ABILENE, July t. Correspondence
/ have before me TnR HERALD OF
Thursday last oontaining an interest
ing editorial ON tho iron ores OF East
orn Texas. You say that portion o.
the State "ls neither rich cereal nor
heavy o0,tou-producing region As
an offset, however, to this rather thin
agricultural condition, you say East
ern Texas possesses in great album
dance "tho finest iron ores to ho found
IN tho world, which II duly developed,
will cause IL 10 flourish bayond the
dream OF even Its most sgnguins Gill
cons"
agree with You that Eastern Texas
has great quantity of excellent iron
ores. / also agree with you that TN IN
Immense store OF wealth Is left utterly
dormant and OF no avail, contributing
nothing to the people who walk heed
| lassly over IL. Niso agree with you
that II this vast wealth were
developed II will MAKO Eastern Texas
q very powerful community, such ~
Pennsylvania now IN, ana such as
northern Alabama Il rapidly becom-
| u
would be very good thing 10 see
Eastern Texas become very prosper
our, rich aud powerful community,
| instead of tho rather feeble and back
| wooda community she now Is.
But, now, Mr.. Editor, | wish 70 nsli
YOU how does all this compare with
your iree-trade doctrines which you
so uniiringly and vigorously atYo-
cate? Can you ever bnild up tho iron
interests OF Eastern Texas II you put
your iree trade doctrines into practice?
How can you-pray, now can you!
| AS you have brought tue thing right
| square TO our faces, in very tangible
way, / hope you will rise 10 explain.
IL would DO tough job Tor tho iron
manufacturers OF Eastern Texas
to compete with Pennsylvania and
| Alabama, owing 10 the greater cheap
ness Of fuel ana capital in those local.
| ties. Pennsylvania and Alabama
| have coal ut hand, and Eastern Texas
has none. Her iigni.o in its natural
condition will not Go for smelling
ores. Therefore, here is big advan-
tage for the Pennsylvania and Ala
bama mon. Now suppose you declare
free trade, which is such divine in
stitution in your eyes, and admit Eng
| fish iron free of duty. Tho English
have still cheaper coal, cheaper CAPT.
| tai and cheaper labor. The iron mon
| of Alabama would be wiped out at
once, as they could not at all stand
this additional burden of competition
with cheaper coal, cheaper capital and
cheaper labor, and even the Pennsyl-
| yanians would be sadly shaken and
| many would go by the board. They
could not stand at all without squeez-
ng their laboring men down TO the
starvation wages of England. Is not
all this true, Messrs. Editors? Then,
pray, how could the men of Eastern
| Texas stand it? Please eXplain-pray
do. You hold up before the peop!e of
Eastern Texas a glorious land ofprom'
Use, and then step in with your FREQ
trade and tell them that they cannot
enter therein. Isn't that refined cru
city? You tree traders are great fol
lows for loving foreigners and foster
ing their property, but when 1t comes
to fostering your own people you KICK
and call it robbery. It's e good thing
to send all your money abroad, but
very bad TO keepit among. your Own
people. Honestly, / think you free
| traders, such as The HERALD and my
old friends, Coke and Reagan, ought
never to be allowed TO have q single
| dollar, except what the foreigners,
whose dear advocates they are
| may give Cl8l. Inc mOJCO Oh US pro-
| tectionistg is: Let US Keep our money
at home and build up ourselves, and
lot tho English kick along as best thsy
can. We are Americans and not Eng
| lishmen, and we want an American
policy and not an English policy,
One more suggestion. 1t will DO 81
| long time, fear, before Eastern Texas
will manufacture iron, but the tirno is
not remote when Dallas will become o
great iron manufacturer. We will have
tall smoke-stacks and blazing furnaces
all around. We will be filled with
busy and prosperous laborers and citi-
zens. Tho ore will BIO brought to you
by railroad from Eastern Texas, those
people will dig it out of the ground and
soil IL to you. We will reduce it into
pjg.iron and then manufacture it into
all sorts of iron and steel things. We
will have coal very cheap from
tho Indian Territory, and by
the new road which they
are now to build. Then Dallas will be
a great city, and we will all be happy.
But this can never be under the free
traders. You free traders were made
for gangreened communities and PEG
pies, and not for live and vigorous
communities and peoples. You
should all be shipped across the At
Observation-Disclosures my old friends COX
and Reagan--where your hearts are
N. A. Il.