The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-03
GalvestOn.

iHke 'ne wnole carr y VI.
social; y, = t1hacaf and commercial, and |
IL constitutes an anomaly in the his
tory of western and southwestern i
communities. 1t is peopled by a
race Of men grown rich upon COM
mercial monopoly, and while they
arc hospitable and genial yet these
self-same exclusives affect to believe,
and their monopoly privileges have
enabled them to so Impress the out
side world, that Galveston is all with
out fault practically, that her peo-
Pile have the patriotism, tho culture,
the grace, the refinement, the intelli-
gence and the enterprise OF the state,
and that the vast interior is wilder
ness of ignorance, inertia, fence-cut-
ting, numbering and lawlessness. Po-
litically she hath modes peculiarly
her own. She will resent bitterly the
charge that she is republican or any.
thing other than staunchly demo-
cratic, aud yet Tom Ochiltree is one
of her chief political products, and Joe
Atkins another. Wherever or when
ever Galveston has touched state
politics 1t has been with some such
defilcment as the one. which has re-
Gently occurred there. Why In one
whole ward, upon an inspection of
the ballot box, there was but one tick
ct which its deposition could swear
to. Galveston supports everything
in politics and is true to nothing
This is her record. Everything has
been made to bend to deep
water. For this she has schemed,
traded, traillcked, fawned and cajoled
the state "ad nauseum.' Any amount
OF money can be raised there for cor
ruption purposes, but not dollar car
be had for legitimate. political enter.
prises. She would at any time raist
half million dollars to corrupt con
gress on deep water scheme, when
that amount raised, and pledged tc
any similar or greater sum t'
be contributed by the govern
ment, would probably have induce,
the desired appropriation. She pre-
fers the crooked course, rather thar
the straight. 1t is her habit, her lido
syncracy, aud it is this trait, whicl
has earned for her politically the ex
ecration of the interior. These are Bit
ter truths but the telling of them is
wholesome remedy, ii it induces earl.
reformation and this is our only oil
ject in abiding to these devilish an
disgraceful traits.
Commercially speaking her mode
are much more reprehensible, if POI
sible, than they are socially, and pc
liticalIy, she is the blossom, nay tn
very ripened fruit of monopoly. B'
ing the one only sea port for man
long years, she buit wharf under
, charter which enabled her to lay a
, onerous and unreasonable burdc
! upon the shoulders of tn
people of the whole state, whicI
ground the faces of the poor aud thu
rich alike, while 1t filled the Golfer
of the wharf company and gave then
the means by which they were en-
abled to give the law of trade to tn
state as absolutely as though 1t wor
but ward of the city. Note tn
fact further, that in every and all tn
schemes for raising money to deeper
the water on her harbor approaches
she has Indignantly refused ever!
proposition to part with one singh
feature OF her wharf monopoly. Thus
does She practically in effect ask thu
general government for seven mil
lions of money in order that she ma,
gobble the substantial advantage
of such improvement by increasing
the enormous profits arising from he
already burdensome exactions upoi
the commerce oftbe state.
The railroad age, since we have
outlets to New Orleans and St
Louis, has to some extent corrected
abuses, but in all matters of heavy
freight shipments, in and out, the
ugly commercial features of hel
wharf monopoly remain, aud so they
will until some other port
is provided, which is sc
guarded that a few men may not sill
down and arbitrarily place exactions
upon commerce which practically
amount to prohibition. The people
of the interior have been very pa
tiently pouring money into the lap OF
Galveston for many long years, but
the signs of the times all indicate that
very soon this patience, at least, will
cease to be virtue, and the mouth OF
the Brazos, Sabine Pass or Aransas
win be selected by popular consent
aud a united effort OF all the people of
Texas will enable them TO procure
thirty feet of water. This would
prove poetic justice, and constitute a
fitting rebuke to the social, political
and commercial greed of Galveston.
S.