The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-03
GETTING COLD IN THE EXTREME
TiES-A PROPOSED REMEDY.

uriance of every facility to
deal directly with any part
Of the traflicing world.
The enterprising West quickly caught
the infection, and the South at last
awoke from her dream and followed
the example. Our trade course is
wholly revolutionized from what is
was a score of years ago. Congresses
in even the smaller towns compress
our cotton, and railway agencies give
overland through-bills-lading to New
York or Europe. Factories here are
also springing up to twist the staple
into all manner of wearing apparel, to
convert our ores into all sorts of i'm
PIGMENTS and utensils, and to fashion
our timbers into all kinds of lumber,
furniture, and woodenwares. Year by
year we are growing less dependent
ON foreign shores, and consequently
more independent Of port accommoda-
tions. Hence it is that three or four ports
are found to be all-suflicient to do our
foreign trade, and those, from obvious
causes, are now in tho Northeast.
Their capital induces tho business,
their peculiar facilities retain it, while
the railway companies are deeply in
terested coadjutors because OF their do
sire for the "long hauls." These are Of
the why's that Mobile, Pensacola, New
Orleans and Galveston have had their
day and are now in the dissolution
process. This is why these extreme
points, like the extremities of tho dy-
ing man, are growing cold-the circu-
lation ceasing. This is why they be.
gin to resemble the disintegrating bark
that is becoming useless to the trunk.
The same causes that carry interior
Alabama products which once found
for them shippers, by the river route,
a market in Mobile, or In New York
via the long sea journey, directly over
the rail to this latter city when the
Mobile IL Ohio road was built, did op-
crate to carry interior Louisiana and
mississippi produce in the same mag
netic direction. In yet earlier days
Pensacola had passed through the
same experience, and Charleston and
Savannah can a similar tale unfold,
while poor Galveston sits and signs by
tho sad sea waves, and in her despair
bemoans the coming of that luckloss
westward star.
All this may be unfortunate for
those ever beautiful and once thriving
cities, even as it saddens US to con-
template it, yet IL is nevertheless true.
In South Carolina, Columbia and
Camden are fast surprising Charles
ton. In Georgia, Atlanta, Columbus
Macon and Rome are Outstripplng
Savannah. In Alabama, Birmingham,
Admission and Montgomery are sham.
ing Mobile with her annually deCreas
ing population. New Orleans for sew
eral years past has witnessed the co.
quoting and the ultimate marriage OF
her Mississippi and her Loulsiana
with st. Louis and the Gothamite, fol-
though bone of her bone and flesh
Of her flesh they have deserted their
mother and gone after richer lovers.
Impelled by the same causes, North
ern Texas and Central Texas have
been for some time virtually divorced
from the "Queen of the GulEn and
have observed with regret the depart
ure Of her glories. Misapprehendins
the real root of the evil, Pensacoli
turned her entire attention to deep
water, but she finally conceded tha
like unto HAMAN it "availed hei
naught." New Orleans rejoiced in hel
1888 feet ut mean tide" enough to tloa
the Great Eastern, but real estate val
ues continued to decline, aud a gen
eral depression among her averag,
cltizenry and their several, businesse!
has to-day become truly distressing
What is best TO be done under thu
circumstances by our Southern sea
port cities is problem they mus
} work out for themselves, and at tn,
, earliest moment if they would aver
the direct disaster, but to our view
comes but one solution, and that is by
= building up of trade with the Contra
: American, South American and Mexl
: can countries. These will be to then
/ what Europe is TO Boston, New York
, Philadelphia and Baltimore; wha
Asia is to San Francisco and Sal
Diego. New Orleans, in her proposed
peculiar Exposition,w with Its signlncan
name, seems to have struck the key
note. win Galveston follow in tn
wake?