The Dallas Daily Herald

R.R.
Fort Worth Advance.

Of course we mean the railroad bill, which proposes to put the whole railroad business of the state into the hands of three men. We have said before that there are some good features in the bill, but others wholly objectionable. So glaring are the evil features of the bill that we have been of the opinion from the first that the good sense of the house would not entertain a bill containing such inconsistencies. The Advance correspondent at Austin telegraphed us yesterday that our representative, Paddock, is firm in the support of the bill. If our correspondent is correct, then Paddock is not representing the sentiments of this constituency in favoring the bill in anything like the shape in which it was reported by the committee. The Advance has been pronounced on every proper occasion, in urging wise and judicious legislation, both state and national: looking to the proper controlling of railroad and other great corporations and combinations so that they may not grind the people, but this bill provides for the creation of a more dangerous enemy in that dictatorial triumvirate than the railroads themselves are liable to set up in the state. Again there is positive injustice to the people who have invested their money in changing this mighty state from a wilderness into almost a continuous scene of busy and prosperous life. At this the state is receiving more positive good from the railroads now being constructed or in immediate contemplation of construction than from any other source, hence it is the height of folly to adopt a law that would largely if not effectually stop the progress of these roads, besides inflicting both upon the roads and over the state that would prove to be a permanent curse.