The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1886-09-22
our Texas cities.

All acute anu ChItlul op-clNclH
have noticed the gradual but sure
decsGaucc of our south Atlantic coa-t
cities since the war. For a number
of wears the causes were apparently
deeply hidden. Many tucrc were who
ascribed this unpleasant phcnomeuon
to the uprootiug and destruction Of
our labor system. the falling of 10
the volume n. we'll AS the value of our
productions. liut this -ccmingll
plausible theory had to be- abandoned
when statistics showed the recovery
VI volume, and even AN excess over
anti-bcllum production The thought.
tai aud inquisitivo were compelled 10
look elsewhere for the cause 1t
seems now to be- well settled that we
| o We hi, decaleHcr to the railroad
age, which has sent our productions
cotton at their head, whiriing by the
| gntcways OF our southern cities on
| the swiftly moving railways to their
ultimate markets IN the northern cities,
or their points OF departure Tor the
ocean voyage to European mills anu
manufactures. The northern states
hnve had all the advantage of n largo
cash balance ia their favor, aud this
has operated TO build aud control the
limos of rail which affect the trade OF
our coast cities so surely and so dis.
nstcrpu-ly. Norfolk with the
bust harhor on the Atlantic coa.t
amounts to nothing Charles
ton with her magnificent
harhor has dcgcncratri 10 -hriv-
clrd lo,alism. savannah ha, far less
trade than before sherman struck the
SEN Mt her gates Mobile from busy,
active, busting, prosperous and No.
grcs-ivc southern city hn- shrmken
into the dwArfch dimnu-ion- of ~
mere wire grass village, ~, COntemp
tiblc in trade as it BE- in appearance"
aud PROSPECTS New Orleans the
once peerless crescent city of the
southwest with thirty-two feet OF
water on her bar aud one hundred
feet Al her whnryo- since this
iron ngc has been iuaugurntcd hn-
.. .'-'s'.,, .H "' ''e'. o'" Upuuugr sur
has the other of outlet to river
which drains more than half the con.
tincnt aud which is navigublo for
many thousands oimilc, cnst. w,-taud
north. The explanation to our mind
Is That she is oil the cast and west
line OF rail. Tho commerce ct tho
country is on the east and ives lines,
not the north and south lines. She
is out of the whirl aud can never yet
back into it again.
Tho lesson we gather from all this
Is that even if Galveston were not
wavc.washed rs she il, she i- on the
line, ontofthc whirl aud the cotton
aud consequent commerce which en-.
richci her before the war BE- wnlrlcd
past her gates to the east.
or II il IL given Ia her
" ''' 80 "" SUM UlhIRln ~ 10
leave her little 1t any real profit. This
applies also To Houston, aud it iudi.
'atcs Clearly aud cOmclusivrly. ut least
10 our mind, that the cities OF Texas
will not in the future bc found either
~ the coast OF Texas or near it. Tho q
business OF the world has simply been +,
reconstructed aud moved into diilpr.
mt lines Texan coast cities Ike
hose of the Atlantic son.board. .
lobiIc aud New Orleans have only to "
oW to the trade that which has gone
lrth, and from which there can bee u
q appeal ~,
Now In the hidden rccc,.cs ofthc
Tvs governing trade, san Antonio
a7 received blow, the iorcc of #
inch is seen aud felt, butts nature N
causc- are still concealed from All
@ only mark her dcaHlcucc, wonder
ltani sorrow over IL. Then also "a
'rt Worth d, shrinking. The draw.
Z in other lines is very prccrptiblc. II.
Il the cause, are recognizable. She
too near Dallas Two suns are
Yer hung out in one blue arch. ON
ie or the other goes down. The
'rt ha. the balance OF money. aud Of
pnrtunity against her Tn, late sta
lel drouth WAS against her Her
'de for this season is -trd.l there
, ana -ituated a. she Is, .he cannot
nd one seas IN Of loss
Waco and Dallas are the two cities Of
Ea' to-day which are gradually and
rely advancing. We are gaining
at tho others are losing. Waco il Ito
better AZ TO receive the.e u
esslons than Dallas, because yeI
owes les money, ha- her re
.rces better in hand, and has equal De
aud other sdvantage- and pays At oil.
smaller tax rate, This Is why we
dict that waco viii gather the tit
.stantial fruits of the dccadcucc of Jug
weston, Houston aud san Antonio, gu,
her than Dallas. Already il the WA
'und-swell quite Observable. the
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