Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-25

we deny them? States with rigorous
climates and poor soil have long ago
made art and science a blessing to
them. We should not longer make
| The lack Of them our curse. The North
and South OF this generation are wag-
! ing "a contest as determined as any, but
happily IL Is one 10 peace Instead OF
war The military prowess Of Texas
has been second 20 none, then let her
come 10 the front IN commerce.. Nature
has given her tho power to lead in this
All other things viii follow.
SOME STATES ENCOURAGE
manufactures by exemptlug them
/ from taxes for term Of years. No
otherstate could rs well afford TO do
| that rs Texas The taxable value Of
manufactures and their products is but
little more than s7,00J,0OO, while the
| total taxable values In the state amount
to more than SSj6,OOO, 900 which shows
that only about three-iourths Of one per
centnm OF the taxes would have 10 be
| remittod in order 10 put these now here
upon an equitable footing with manu-
| fncturies which we would not otherwise
got. Liberal donations for sites have
always been made by the owners Of land
upon which they arc built. But sup
pose that some Yankees might come
with these factories. That might
not suit some people who don't
know that the war Is over, but these
who do that. know that the Yankee is
now but one part and the SOuthcrnor
is the other part OF the new race, the
American auglo-saXOn. Climatic in
hueuces as well rs education have
made the Southerner's nature high
spirited. impulsive aud sometimes brit
to- while the same causes but In diff
eront degrees have made the Yankee
cool, calculating aud tempered like
Roman steel. No other people on
Garth could have freed tnc white folks
from the darhies In the South. With
In Tow more decades Yankee and
Southcrner can't b. distinguished one
from the other and this nation will then
be invincible,
CANALS, RAILROADS, ETC.
II IS undaniable that there are CON
iliCts Of interest between porti ms Of our
state which should DO reconcilcd in
steud Of aggravated. II Is better TO
build up than 10 toar down. Every
section OF the state has one or more
product necessary to the support OF
some other section. They might be
gotten from each other just as well
AS from some other state. As
population becomes more dense the
limits OF certain industries will become
even more marked thun now. Although
Eastern Texas viii produce mitch Of the
best fresh and canned fruits and vege-
tables and othor things, il will always
bo the exclusive lumber and iron pro-
ducing region. But Il generation OF
East Texans whose faces we will never
live long enough 30 500 will be doing
just rs we are doing now n-dnys
"cussin railroads, IL we depend cxclus-
ively upon them any longer to do our
frcighting Tho states big marble
ollca building ut Austin with almost as
many vacant rooms ia II aud about as
much use TO the state as the
BIC ALLIANCE BUILDING
at Dallas is 10 tho Third party, cost
moro than enough 10 build canal from
tho upper to the lower Sabine or Trim
lty. and would BE- the first Of many wa
torways throughout the state. When
thatis done "A commission OF nothing but
farmers would do us well as one OF moth
ing but statesmen The Erie canal Ia
Now York Ia over three hundred and
nifty miles long rises moro than five
hundred feet aud IL one Of tho most
wonderful Of public works In the world.
10 was built by the state and long ago
justified the adjustment Of all tolls.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal la one
hundred and eighty miles long, rises
over six hundred foct, Is also II grand
public work, aud has accomplished
more than mnuy railroads. Virginia
Maryland and Delaware and an the
states touching The great lakes have
fhAftuurI 4.
besides their uaylgablo rivers. Every
state along The great lakes and the AZ
luntic and Pacific soab0ards and those
along the Gultof Mexico, except TeNas.
have good hurbors with harbor de-
tonses, and wo have not even n nuvign-
bic river While tho national guvern-
mont has heuu begged for years hy
Texas 20 build her harbors enough
public lands have boon continually
sQuandercd for tho siuto 30 have built
them long Ugo. one modyrp canal
down through Eastern poSHs could be-
built In from two 10 four years and IL
would cause revolution la the COM
mcrcinl affairs Of tho state, which
would mako her present undevoluped
condition seem almost like q wilderness
20 Whit she would ho before the next
census. Tho bonded indebtedness OF
the state rs now about 81, OO0,OO0. The
cost of a canal would not b0 over So
0OJ 900, and with water rates for
freight 'hero would be no moro 10 cent
corn and cent cotton Ia Texas and no
hard times ~ long rs the crops didn't
fail. Western TeXus cannot be dove-
opeh without railways, but tho state
should never build one OF Thorn. She
has given enough 10 own every ono, but
t1t..ye Ia A. "a