Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-08


priation for deep water will be beneficial
to the people, and that the results to be
obtained, In the nature OF public benefit
will Justify the expenditure of the public
money for such purpose.
J IL Is an old political proyerb that com
I petition Is the life Of trade; and IL Is ais q
equally true that rival seaports and
competing lines of railroads and water
ways cheaper freights, and thus iuure to
the benefit Of the producing and CON
suming classes, and increase the wealth
Of the whole interior country. The more
competing lines OF railroads. and the
more deep water seaports there are on
the coast OF Texas, the cheaper Will be
the rates OF frcights and port charges
These principles of political economy
being recognized as true, we ask for an
appropriation Of sufficient money, com
mensurate with the public interest at
stake, 70 give as deep water at Sabine
Pass as well as at other points. And
we do this in generous spirit of rivalry,
looking alone to the public good, without
il-will toward other seaports, or wishing
TO deprive any other place Of its full APP
preparation for deep water.
But unfortunately, at the outset, we
are met by a very different spirit from
ibis, as manifested among certain class
oil people in the cities of Houston and
galveston; as for instance petition adj
dressed TO Lion. Chas. Stewart. signed by
the moneyed men OF Houston, and pub
lished In the Galveston News OF January
30, 1856. Now, we are convinced bv the
tenor Of that communication and the
well-known character of its signcrs, that
the same is the offspring Of certain
special interests, and petted monopo-
lies, which have already fattened
upon the commerce Of the state, TO the
great injury OF the people, by reason of
the want OF competing seaports and rail
roads, and that the sole and exclusive
OBJECT had in view by the signers of SAID
petition IL TO continue the same exacting
ana grinding monopoly upon the state for
the sole and exclusive benefit of certain
wharf companies, etc. and not
Tor the good OF the people; and that said
petition is coyertly circulated for signers
under the guise of working for the public
good, when its only purpose Is to serve
private interests.
For proof OF these views, as TO the |
spirit that actuates these special monopo- |
lists IN their efforts to obtain the whole of |
the appropriation for Galveston and Buff |
Ialo bayou, to the exclusion of other sea
ports, tits only necessary to cite one in |
stance OF the baleful effects of a MONOPOLY |
upon the commerce of Texas. We need /
only to remember the time, not fifteen
years ago, when there was no railroad /
between Texas and the other
states and the transportation lines at Gal
feston had complete monopoly of the
state, and in connection with the Calves
'on wharf company, millions Of dollars,
n the way Of unjust freights and port
,halges, were eXacted from the people.
Give us deep water at Sabine Pass, then
here viii be competition and commercial
WARY with Galveston, and honest and
wing freight rates will follow, and the
public will receive the benefit. And the
ew VIII not grow rich at the expense Of
he MAN.
Great commercial cities" have, within
he knowledge of the mostignorant of the
lay, been planted as il by enchantment',
IN The lonely prairies of the great West.
~ the aid of but the fortutous circum.
tance of becoming the terminus Of a rail-
DAD; and Sabine Pass, already a terminus
II one, has only to extend it in various di
ectlons distance Of from fifty to loo
niles from its present northern extern
non to connect with the various railroad
ystems OF the interior of our great state
nd with deep water assured nj a small
ost and in very brief time, compara-
lively, will likewise he touched into new
ue by the same finger of enchautment
Ieep water capital, energy and a love OF
ain. And ere our Houston and Calves
on friends shall have completed their
experiments for deep water the most
Stnellc and fastidious of them viii be /
htlreiy content to risk themselves Mt
,aolne Pass ON It's 'foundation,n subject
yourselves to ats conditions of lifep !
d respect to health, etc, society churches
chools and all that makes their lives tol,
raoie IN happier struggle amid the
ompetltlons OF truly redeemed modern
radc. '''O''eih !
Wlth the appropriation already expend-
u we nave obtained at Sabine Pass since 5
-ususI %, 1880, two feet OF water beyond
ne eha OF the jetties, and from three 10
our ieet within the ietty walls. This
as been obtained without any rise in The
.Vers above; and with their augmented !
urrehts TINS spring we expect a further D
crease OF two feet. !,
WIN these facts before us, we feel on. g
rely safe in saying that ST, 900, 900 ey- !
ended TINS year would give the port n
epth OF twenty-five feet before the close :
we therefore ask your assistance in Sc d
lrlng this result. - 50 !
GEoRGE w. 0'BREN, ;,
+, 9. McREYNoLDs, ~ I,
s. +. CARTER, Il,
J. L. LANIER, o.
i. J. RUSSELL,
II w. GREER,
nolnmlttee appointed by citizens of |
'herson county. "