Year: 1877

Within the last few weeks there has


been several gentlemen from the north
here, looking at this part of the state


with view to smbarking capital in


manufacturing enterprises. The sd,


vantages and disadvantages have been


keenly discussed, and by men fully
competent to weigh them correctly.
So far the general verdict is. that for
cotton and wooden goods, We can here


IN Dallas, compete with the world on


the score ot cheapness AS well as quail


lty' The wonder is always expressed by


these gentlemen. that We have not


already both cotton and WOODEN mills


IN operation. The explanation is three


fold. First. we are not manufsctur,


'ng people, being essentially pastoral
IN habits, tastes and practice. Second.
the balance of capital has been largely
against us, and third, We have heretofore
lacked the necessary skilled labor


The northern and European skilled
labor has always refused 10 work
side by side with the negro. To
any one OF all Of these causes is attrib,
utable the dearth Of our business in
these respects. But they are now prac-
tically imperative, at least this is true
of the labor difficulty. so Low when the
repeal of the resumption act gives us
an equal distribution of money and
banking facilities. the other grea: diff
Guilty will be overcome Then. there
will be ne reason why Texas should not
manufacture her own cotton and wool.
and reap the double profits of produc-
tion and manufacture.


Cotton goods manufactured in Texas
would have long start ahead OF the
same fabric manufactured in New Eng
land. All Mexico, the West Indies,
Brazil and the Pacific coast general.
Is, would be thousand miles
nearer to us than to them, and
IN the future such an advantage would
give us the monopoly. As far as it con-
Germs wooden fabrics we could al least
transport our manufactured wool north
and sell j. there upon terms equal. al
least, with those who bug the wool here
and transport it, together with its im>
purities to the north for manufacture.
Such advantages, taken together with
our milder climate, cheaper living and
other things in our favor, ought now To
make very beehive OF mills and
furges for Texas. Nor is this a mere
dream Of Eutopia, but the sober deduc-
tions Of reason itself.


The sharp, calculating northern busi>
ness man has only to take glance to de-
termine him, and he is not OF the charae-
ter who will long permit his preiudices
to stand in the way of his interests. If
only those Boston people who were so
lavish with their investments in the
northwest were to come here we would
soon have such revival in manufac-
AtA'o ~ NhAAha SCI - AAktAchtltl illAtlS ana
one hundred thousand hands to work.
TO the manifest advantage of all the in
terests and people concerned.


The presence here OF the men referred
10 is an earnest to us that the fame t,f
our peerless country and its great ad.
vantages has gone out into the world,
and soon the first fruits of it will be
discsruable in the action and profitable
employment among us, OF an immense
army OF busy and intelligent men and
women workers. IL is our duty as the
owners OF the soil to give these people
hospitable reception and to go to some
trouble II necessary, to show them all
the tempting richness of the prospects
before them and Us