Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-02
TERRELL AT HOUSTON.
The Candidate for Senatorial LaureIs
Addresses the People Of the
Bayou CITY.
Tho TariiI Question, the IniqniteS OF Inc
Pacifle Land Grant AMI the Cansts
1T tho strike Reviewed.

HOUSTON lbA.f July is--AiOh' AtSN'
w. Terrell a4ived In the city at O'Clock
this afternoon and spoke TO large audi
enoe at Armory hail tonight. His speech
was replete with sound views on the pres
ent tarif question, the iniquities Of the
Pacific land grant, the origin and cause
Of the late strikes, and the labor question.
In general his address was able and inter-
esting throughout and has made him many
friends in Harris county.
Referring TO the Improvement Of Texas
herbors he said: Why S II that Texas Is
forever treated by the federal government
In ner harDor improvements as step
childf with coast line almost double
that u any other state, with ten times as
much rich land bordering on the sea as
any one Of them, and great In oil the ele
mepts Of agricultural wealth, why Is 1t
that our cotton and wool seek the ocean
by a land trip 70 New York? Millions OF
our rich lands remain unworked, while
Ave acres on the granite bills OF Massa-
chusetts will sell for enough 10 buy q
Texas farm Why Is this? Our climate
Is more Inviting, our virgin soil Yields
more varied products, aud the ocean, mat
great cheap highway Of commerce, which
defaS the pools aud freight com 9inatlons
OF corporate power, Is at our doors.
Two causes combine to defy the laws o.
trade which should send our products by
the nearest path 10 the ocean, and Doth
mus, be removed before we can prosper
First, orr coast towns must be made
accessible 20 deep sea-gOing vessels. In
the five years between 1874 and 1880 ssh
600, 900 were spent by the general gov
ernment Ia Improving harb0rs and rivers,
and before that enough was expended TO
almost make q harbor for every Atlantic
state. Only few hundred thousand doll
lars have been doled out TO Texas aud
that at such long intervals as only to stir
tho shifting sands Of the
channel and make an Augeau
stabte-elosning work OF the whole job /,
We nave called on Hercules long enough
and must now put our own shoulders to
the wheel. We nave two resources, and
either would enable us to deepen the
channels 10 our potts. First, we have
nearly six millions Of school money now
loaned 70 the state, to counties and TO
railroads, and about thirty millions of
acres Of school lands resort to Dor
rowing that fund or any other fund which
viii Involve debt OF over 100000 could
only be made, even II desirable, after
amending the constitution, What we
need Is present help. The remnant Of
the public lands, that fruitful
source Of p'under and corruption
may even yet be- rescued from lane
corporations and do us good Ter
years ago, though ! opposed the prof.
gate waste Of our lands on railway cor
poratiOus, aided Judge Mccormick Z,
pass through the senate bill for the re
lief 81 Galveston, giving twenty i've sec
tons Of land for every ten thousant
dollars IN hoods to be issued by the city
| then said that such small aid wa
meanly parsimOnious In the state. TIL
bin was defeated In the mouse, and now
since we have given slxty.four million
Of acres as a present TO wealthy men {
build railroads, why not now dadicat
some lands to dig channels to float on
products To the scar We have about tw
millions Of acres Of land still left belong
ing TO the state embraced In reservation
that we can use and wort
over three millions OF money.
this could be rescued from the deviou
policies Of an institution known as III
land board, and devoted to secure dee
channels 10 our harbors, 1t would
more good than II ever will In any othC
way, Texas could devote the proceed
OF It's sale TO improving her harbors {
make the land itself basis OF credit {
Galveston aud other ports, under Law
guarding against the accumulation {
large bodies of land In single ownershI
ana stlll preserving it for settlement
AT CHEAP RATES.
Once turn seward over our oN
wharyes the commerce OF the count
tributary 10 our coast, and eve
county In the state would feel u
impulse OF new life and prosperit
Not Galyerton or Houston or s
blne Pass alone, but every city
Texas would grow and develop. No sta
can be truly great that has sea line
her own SO long as she permits h
cath products TO pass to II
markets Of the world throus
the haTbors OF other state
Why should not the general goyernmeI
be appealed TO for help with land ais,
We are proposing to devote nearly OF
hundred millions Of money to build sh
railway through q foreign governme
under pretense OF helping commerce, TIL
swelling the national debt and coutrIvll
an excuse for continuing high tariff.
we dedicate the remnant OF our publ
domain TO the opening OF our harbors Il
federal government would, through h
congre IS, from very shame, come forwa,
and help us, acre Tor acre. The Unit,
States granted to the dive states Of Obi
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and MichIg,
nearly 100000 OF acres OF laI
for canal and harbor purposes, Why m
not Texas obtain like favor I
her harbors under law restraint
the couceatratlon OF that land
corporate or individual ownership, al
protecting IL for settlement The fedel
government has stu over GOO, 000, o
acres nuapproprlated. Michigan a
Wisconsin received over l,000,00O
acres for harbnrs and ship canals, and
Texas viii pat her own shoulder TO I
wheel, a land reservation may be secur
from the federal government 90 meet
our wants. Remember, this would not
grant for the Spectator OF monopC
but by the state for
rHE sKCuRrY or HER COMMERCE..
But deep wapr alone Will not div,
commerce 10 our coast towns; you m
establish channel ntty feet deep at G
weston, and stun the natural laws Of tra
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