Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-13

the hostility OF the Dallas papers to
everybody and everything outside Of
Dallas;
"Mr Pfouts-I will show you an ar
ticle I'm the Herald In which Capt.
Esds stated that he could make Sabine
Pass the finest harbor on the Texas
coast. He (Mr. Pfoutsl was working
for Dallas, and not for Galveston, and
what Dallas and her Merchants ex-
change wanted was to build up Dallas
They should 20 to work and extend
their trunk line TO Sabine Pass.
"Mr. Tre2evant next took the floor,
aud proceeded to wlther things like q
leaf in a flame. He said the only
proposition the government engineers
had made was 10 furnish eighteen feet
of water, If they could get all the
money they wanted. Msj Mansfield
had long experience, but like that OF
most army officers In engineering du-
ties, it had proved very unhappy one
for the people OF the United
States. / do not think that
these gentlemen, he contin-
ned, who are advocating Sabine
Pass are ia earnest. / am tired ana
sick of this thing. We read the squibs
in the Dallas Times and smile, and
we, perhaps, become quitesleepy over
some of the heavy articles In the Her
aid; but we forget that they are making
US enemies day by day. They pitch
into Fort Worth, into Galveston, into
any thing aud everything that Ia cal
culated to answer the impact with the
rtcoil As property holder OF the
city Of Dallas | am opposed to this In
| discriminate warfare which has been
inaugurated and kept up, perhaps
against every city IN cur state Only
recently the Dallas Herald departed
! from its usual tender strains TO adopt
a style of language through which II
might be mistake for a scOld, l have
been afraid 10 take IL up la the morn
| ing, lest the milk in my Coffee might
turn souI Applause. Mr.. Tres
want said he could prove to any con-
sentative man that It would cost more
| to build harborst Sabine Pass than
at Galveston BY ignoring Galveston,
and putting the energies of the gov
| eminent to work In building up Sabine
! Pass, you absolutely destroy fifteen
| million dollars worth of property In
| Galveston, it's accumulated wealth.
| From II standpoint of sound political
economy, the money would be gone,
aud lis loss would cost the state Of
rexss and the United States govern
ment more than the building of he
harbor. [Applause He secuted MIR.
Maroney's idea that the improvement
OF s tbine Pass with half The money
needed to furnish deep water water at
Galveston would insure competition
in ocean rates. IL would more
likely lead TO the trade OF that har0Or
being done by branch line Of boats
from the present monopoly. But give
US thirty.hve feet of water at Calves
ton, and the merchant msriners of AL
nations will visit In honest compeu.
ton LAppIauze.l He contended that
one great harbor, by producing the
aggregation Of capital essential to com
petition, WAS more desirable than bail
dozen haTbors without such an aggre,
CATION OF capital In the matter OF
the Galveston wharves, he said, with
deep water you will find that island
having wharves for distance of five
miles, and the Galveston Wharf com
pany VIII be absolutely driven out %
the city by free wharves on the Othel
side of the entrance"