El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-30

White Oak6 route OleLlDRu Ieb CO
itself by fitting up the most delightful
headquarters in the heart OF the city,
and treating every visitor like an
honored guest. The White Oaks took
to Cloudoroft nearly ore fourth of all
the people who landed in Ell PasO
during the week, q phenomenal record
for q side trip. The Texas and Pacific
and the G. H. & s. A. helped Cloud
croft by giving il wide advertising.
and helped FL Psso as directly in so
doing.
The traffic arrangements on all the
roads were perfect. There we're numer-
GUS special agents here to look afssr
every special party. and nobody was
lost sight of in the rush. Altogether
the week just past has given TO the
people of Ell Psso spectacle of perfect
cooperation between the city and the
railroads. We have seen what can be
done when the city and the transporta-
ion interests work in harmony. Il is
railroads that made the town, and they
could bresk it quite as successfully II
they wanted to.
The railroads are our best friends.
It is q pity that there is always to be
found Ger tain elements in every cisy
who seem to think that the way TO get
favors from the railroads is to keep
them scared up, as the saying goes.
They think it is necessary to carry on
continual warfare against the roads in
order to kespatLem within the bounds
of reason. Most men who have had
any direct dealings With railroad men
will say that they are almost uniform
~ open minded. They require facts
upon which to base conclusions. They
must be shown where any course OF &C
tion would pay their road. They do
not pose As philanthropis's. But when
they csn be made to see that their In
terests are identical with those of any
with regard to any psrste-
ular project they are ever ready to take
the step that means progress.
Friendship for the railroads does aot
mean letting them make nuisances Of
1t does not mean that they
shall constantly encroaoh more and
more on the streets In the heart of the
city. Il does not mean that they must
be left without any restrictions as to
their terminal facilities or as to the
in which they use the privile-
res that are accorded them by the
But 1t does mean that
hey shall always be approached In q
,pirit of fairness and justice. that their |
Tide shall be considered, that while |
hey are held strictly up to the letter !
If the law, the Law be not W ads more
,nerous than justice and reasonable
regard for the public welfare demand.
The railroads are the pioneers OF
progress. They always march in the
ran. They inAugurste new eras, they
create cities: they centralize the in
lussriss of any section where they
will. What would Fort Worth be
vithou the railroads? What would
amount to? What has Kan
as City or Denver or Omaha to make
great city of. If the railroads were
AIKEN away 1t may be said, and
ruly, that most of these points al
eady had the elements of CONNER
ial metropolis before the railroads
anne. But the railroads, while TAX
ng advantage OF what already exist,
nvarisbly create trade in a proper
ion far greater than that which was
Store. 4
Ell Paso needs to take all this to c
cart. Ell Paso must realize that every q
abroad that enters here constitutes 1
no arm of powerful machine that is |
rawirg wealth, trade, and population I
Ito this little metropolis. Each one of r
r az If 1t were the whole thing.
ach one represents q particular class G
business that the city wonld have to a
, without If the roads failed. We n
AZ declsim violently in general terms h
.ainst DETERMINATIONS; we may de- II
ounce the rosds for their alleged d
'asping policy; we may fuss and q
me and threaten-it all does no good, II
nile it certainly does harm, by caus- O
g the railroads to look elsewhere for O
Q cooperation that is as necessary to t.
en- a. to . successful city. v
On she ether hand, let tho bus: ness
an Of q city treat the railroads as, first
all, friends. Let them meet in . G.
irit Of fairness and justice to all. Let y
EN- bring forth facts and figures in 1
,ad of boycctts and lawsuits, and the d
ilroads will be found to meet the peo-
> no less than half way. u
Abovesllthipgs, the city and the citi. :.
ns must never break faith with their
ends. the railroads. A case in point !.