The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-06
"pRO BONO PUBLlCO.".
s WRITES AOEEP WATER LETTER
he Ea6s Galveston Bar job Hit In the
short Ribs and Deep Water for bal.
las Advocated = Attention,
Merchants Exchange.

a DALLAS, Jan. g. Editor HERALD
d was surprised, and l must ay m0rti-
Med, also, when l heard meeting had
<been held this afternoon by the mem
'bers of the Merchants Exchange to en-.
Hdorse the fraudulent jobbing scheme of
Capt. Eads and his co-adjutors to obtain
Hdeep water at Galveston. ] was exceed
Ringly glad to know, however, that few
thoughtful, rejecting men SO vigor-
ously opposed the proposition that ac-
ton was postponed until tomorrow. l
am in favor OF deep water for Dallas, and
it seems 10 me, every man, especially
The businass men, who have the in
terest OF Dallas at heart, would he Just
like am. When | say deep water for
Dallas, mean exactly what | saw. II
the Esds job is lobbied through con
press, and it can't get through any
other way, and 81 900 is appropriated
to ne squandered on Galveston's sand
bar, here will rever he any deep water
for Dallas. Dig out the Sabine Pass bar
lit can be done for One-seventh of
what Eads asks iOr), and you will get
deep water for Dallas; you will get
deep water Tor all north and norm.
southeast Texas. You will get
deep water for all The
northwestern states and territories,
even to the Pacific coast. You will get
deep water, too, that will not he weighed
down with the terrible incubus Of a
wharf monopoly taxing every pound OF
freight passing through the chaunels:
you will get deep water unburdened
with railroad moropolies; you will get
deep water that will build up a city on
the main land ana not on an island in
the sea subject to inundatiOn whenever
severe storm blows that is uu-
apprOachable by RAILROADS, save over
bridges which wash away, stopping the
wheels of commerce at every atmus.
pheric perturbation. IL is fact that
congress only proposes TO appropriate
$l3,500,0O0 for harbOr and river inn
prOvements, ana if S7,750,0O0 il given To
the EadS 'hene IL viii leave only So
100000 for the balance of the entire
country. How much out OF 50, 10000 for
the entire Atlantic Pacific and gull
coasts aud all the rivers of the entire
country, can Sabine Pass and Arkansas
and Pass Cdvallo and the mouth OF the
BraZOs nope To get? Should Sabine
Pass, mouth OF the Brazos, Pass
Cavallo, Arkansas Pass and the
mouth OF Inc RlO Grdnue ali
be closed that MIR. Eads ami his part
ners may make some S6250,000 prof or
the government for cleaning OUT Gal
weston bar? Must Galveston bo given
monopoly Of deep water on the coast
OF Texas, robbing the taxpayers of the
country of$6 80 600 to get it, and all the
commerce VI eastern, northern and
western Texas be forced through that
port, there to be fl8eced by that devil
fish, the Wharf company? Why should
Dallas pay tribute u Galveston on her
commerce both WAYS, or one way even?
The only argument possible 10 off in
favor of the Eads scheme at any time
was that he had associated with him
nearly all the men OF any standing or
influence likely to be influenced
by money, therefore, unless
his scheme succeeded, there
was no nope Tor deep water on the coast
Of Texas Tor many years. This argu-
ment IS Of no force now, because the
Republicans are no longer in power,
because The Democracy is at the fore
MIR. Etds' great influence is now gone
because 1t is known that every man
working in his behalf will be looked
upon with suspicion, espec tally when
he asks for S7.75O,O0O to DO that which
H,500,0O0 will do.
Pro Bono PUBLICo,