The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-06-18

LtrrHE wArcnwoao &c. BUILD.
Railroads, Manufactures and General De-
velopment the Demand ofiha Hour,
business Tor the Mechanics,
Trade for Merchants

DALLAS, juno Ia Editor HERALD. T.
Your urgent appeals 10 tho citizens OF
Dallas for activity and constant for
ward movement is worthy a great paper
like yours. Lot the watchword be,
"Build upW Build, build, build! Go
forward! The wori IL worth all the
buster and bloody war on gamblers,
saloons, ardent spirits, drinking, etc,
etc, Let them all rip and the longest
pole knock down the persimmons. II
The moral suasionists haven't got any
pole let thom 20 without any persi IN
mons. Put the city through; build her
up. A city is made Tor everybody and
It's like the world: at takes
y, sli sorts OF people to make
them know their places and let them
alone. It's a free country, but bvory
citizen is amonable to tho laws. Let
those who show better proofs of higher
order OF civilization. morals and religion,
try 10 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 swel!ss,
dudes, drunkards and gamblers. II
they don't do this and say they can't,
then their high flying only proves them
10 be chafi-nothing solid in them.
They are like the down that floats on
the breeze, bright and feathery, but car
ries nothing but sud.
Mr.. Editor, there is p right
and wrong way. Selhshness
city and your city will go tor you. Peo-
Pile go ~ a city 10 live because they find
II pleasant aud profitable. II a small city
is profitable place to live, of course Il
large one IL so in proportion, and ttere
Is but ono way to make city; but one
way 70 make largo city, aud that IL by
peopling 1t. You can't mako a city
without people. at takes people 10
mako a city" And now that is my
text. That is my subject and the object
induhltable, that 1t is Singular that ev-
cry citizen in this city, and you In par
ticular,are not Ia otpursuit Of it. True,
a few more railroads are indis-
penable to tho progress of the city; ~
the northwest road TO the coal region;
q road to Lancaster and Waxshachie;
the Trunk road and northeast road,
but railroads alone will not make a
city, while people will. OF course there
is great leverage in railroads towar Is
inducing people to come; but there are
other levers more direct aud more pow
erful. For instance, great manufact-
nrlng establishments that will absC-
lutely require people TO operate, manage
and attend to them. 1t makes no dill
ference what kind Of people, so that
they eat and wear clothes and are in
largo numbers. For undoubtedly,
the more there are the
more will be required. Mere
groceries, more dry goods, more drugs,
more CONTEMPORARIES, more beef mar
kets, more bakers, more brewers, ho-
tells, boarding houses, laundriss, sa-
looms, theatres, ETC., ETC., and doctors,
preachers, teachers, lawyers and every
body and everything else will have to
be increased and enlarged If few thou
sand operators are brought here TO do
the work OF few large manufacturing
establishments. The way to accelerate
the progress of Dallas now is to get up
some extensive manufactures; cotton,
wooden, wine, whisky, brandy, no mat
ter what, so that it will require large
number of workingmen-labore me-
architects, etc.
Dallas has been success from |
the. beginning. The, right kind
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 " no control her destiny let
her fail or even lag behind? 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 mako q
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; rush was made to provision,
clothe and furnish this great army Of
la borers and the result was city.
Bring people here. The growth of
Dallas has been extraordinary-very
and it is growing now as fast
rs 1t ever did. But accelerate it, push it
keep 1t on a boom. 1t is a fast
age and everything and everybody
must push ahead. A mere mercantile
city wont grow. There must be great
There must be people.
DION.