The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-16
PUT THE CITY THROUGH.
LETTHE wATcHwoRD BE, BUILD.
Railroads, Manufactures and General Ne.
veiOpment the Demand of the H,ur.
Business for the Mechanics,
Trade for Merchants

DALLAS, June l3. - Editor HERALpl-
Your urgent appeals to the citizens of
Dallas for activity and a constant for.
ward movement is worthy d great paper
like yours. Let the watchword he
"Build upp' Build, build, build, Go
forward! The wori is worth all tho
bluster and bloody war on gamblers
saloous, ardent spirits, drinking, etc.
etc. Let them all rip and the Longest
pole KNOCK down the persimmons' If
the moral suasionists haven't got anv
pole let them go without any persini.
mons. Put the city through; build her
up, A city is made for everybody and md
it's like the world: at takes
all sorts of people to mako
It." Have good laws to make
them know their places and let them
alone. It's free country, hut every
citizen is amenable to the laws. Lei
those who show better proofs of phsr
order OF civilization. morals and religion.
try to induce Others to come up. Above
all things, let them raise their children
In the sphere OF their own excellencies
and see that they do not become swe!ls,
dudes, drunkards and gamblers. Ii
they don't do this and say thew cen,t
then their high flying only proves them
to be chaff-nothing solid in them.
They are like the down thas floats on
the breeze, bright and feathary, out ear.
ries nothing but sud-
Mr.. Editor, there is right
and wrong way. SeIfshness
and Intolerance are wrong. Go for yonr
city and your city will 20 Tor you. PEG.
pie go to city to live because thew find
II peasant and profitable. II small city
is profitable place to live, Of course a
large one Is SO in proportion, and there
is put one way to make city; but one
way 10 max large city, and that il nv
peopling It. You can't make a citv
without people. sit takes people to
make q CITY," And now thar is INV
text. That is my subject and the object
Of this letter; and IT is such a truism: SO
mdubiLable, that it is siu gular that ey-
cry citizen in this city, and YOU in mar.
ticular,are not 10 hot pursuit. oft. Tue.
3 few more railroads are indis1
penable to the progress of the city; az
the northwest road to the coal region
road to Lancaster and Waxahachle:
the Trunk road and q northeast road,
but railroads alone will not make a
city, while people will. OF course there
is great leverage in railroads towards
inducing people to come; but there are
other levers more direct and more pow
erful. For instance, great manufacl-
urlng establishments that will ansc-
lutely require people to operate, manage
and attend to them. 1t makes no dit
ference what kind of people, so that
they eat and wear clothes and are i'm
large numbers. For undoubtedly,
the more there are the
more will be required. More
groceries, more dry goods, more drugs,
more CONTEMPORARIES, more beef mar
kets, more bakers, more brewers, no.
teIs, boarding houses, laundries, So
looms, theatres, etc, ETC., and doctors,
preachers, teachers, lawyers and every
boz y and everything else will have TO
be increased and enlarged If few thou
sand nparators are brought here to do
the work OF u lew large manufacturing
estar' hments. The way TO accelerate
the pr gress Of Dallas now is to get up
some OK ensive manufactures; cotton,
won.'n, wine, Nnisky, brandy, no mat
ter What, so that II viii require large
number of workingmen-laborers, me-
chanics, architects, etc.
Dallas has been a success from
the beginning, The right kind
OF men have been found at the helm
and the people have ever been ready to
meet the demands for means to sup
port the growth Of the city, and now,
when the great turning point is at hand
will those who control her destiny let
her fail or even lag behind2 Nay, give
her people; do not depend too much on
her great natural advantages.
Kansas City owes her extraordinary
growth to having no place TO make a
city. The first step was the employ.
ment OF few thousand men with the
necessary appliances to dig down the
hills and fill up the hollows. This was
enough; a rush was made to provision,
clothe and furnish this great army Of
lsborers and the result was city.
Bring people here. The growth of
Dallas has been acknowledgement
gratifying, and 1t is growing now as fast
IS it ever did. But accelerate it, push IL
forward, keep 1t on boom. 1t is fast
age and everything and everybody
must push ahead. A mere mercantile
city wont grow. There mnst be great
manufactures. There must be people.
Dion