The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
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pcrtcd that anything like that number
wall he found within her borders dur
ing the present generation. Nor would
IL be desirable that any such rapid In
lux OF immigration should take place.
In tho settlement of II new country, rs
in all other things, II Is well not To
make too much speed. FcStiHo tcnte
is n sound rule in all the affairs of life.
But that Texas only needs citizens
and capital to become seli-sistaining
empire, no one will gainsay. She has
the climate, the soil, the size, the riv-
ers, the harbors, the productlons-in
fact, everything that is requisite to
make her as Independent Of the bal
ance Of the world rs it is possible for
civilized nation to be in this enlight-
ened era. That 1t should be the high
est duty of every citizen TO use every
means in his power to induce desirable
immigrants to settle within her bor-
ders, we take to be sell-evident propo-
sition.
Our thoughts have been turned in
this direction by noticing the an
nouncement that G. w. Matthews, of
Tyler, has been appointed immigra-
ton agent for the southern states, and
will leave on his mission Immediately.
This we regard as the wsest thing the
bureau OF immigration has yet done,
and we think it would be advisable for
it to recall the appointment of the sew
eral agents recently designated to go
to Europe and send them in the same
direction that Mr.. Matthews is going.
In making this suggestion, we wish it
TO be distinctly understood that it is
not because this scheme would bring
exclusively southern men to Texas, but
simply because we believe the labors
of the agents would be crowned with
more success in that quarter than in
any other. Individually, we are pre-
pared to extend to the new conner of
every country Except Africa and of
every cline the same generous well
come that we ourselves have met with
on the soil of Texas. We care not
what the INN igrant's political princi-
pies are or may have been; all that we
would wish to know is whether he is
an honest man and whether he has
come to better his own condition in
life and to aid in the development Of
the state. And these we are assured
are the sentiments of the people of
Texas.
In consequence of the misrule, OPP
preston and political degradation to
which the people of Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Alabama and South Carolina
have been and still are subjected, there
are thousands in each OF those states
who are looking longingly to the fair
fields and free prairies Of Texas as the
city of refuge from the miseries that
Surround them. All that these people
want, in order to cut loose from their
present surroundings, is for some one
on whose information they can rely to
go among them, to tell them the truth
about Texas, to point out therclative ad.
vantages and disadvantages of the diff
crent sections of the state, and to show
them how cheaply they can get here
by means of the arrangements made
with the railroads for carrying immi-
grants at special rates. 1t must be re-
membered that the newspapers OF
those states are eXerting themselves as
much to keep their population there as
the papers of this state are to draw new
people here. Hence we can not expect
full and frank statement of the advan-
tages of this state to be laid before their
readers. And, therefore, it becomes
necessary that agents should travel
among them and give them correct in
formation.
We believe that this new policy on
the part of the bureau of immigration
will bring many thousand of good citi-
zens to Texas next fall and winter. In
order that Dallas county may get her
full quota Of all that do come, we sug-
gest that the suggestion made by Cen
eral Robertson, in his recent circular
letter, be carried out ut once, so that
the desired information may be for
warded to the agents who are at work.
The suggestion is as follows:
respectfully suggest to the people
OF each county, either through their
county courts, or by voluntary associa-
ton of their citizens, to have prepared
by competent and reliable parties, de-
scriptions of their counties, character
of soil, kind of crops grown, and an
average yield per acre of each crop,
with means of transportation and dis
lance to market; relative amount OF
timber and prairie land, and in coun-
ties where pine and other timber will
make the lumber trade important, give
extent of such timber, and probable
market for lumber, with price of land
proportion of cultivated land in the
county, and terms on which 1t can be
bought by emigrants; if land can be
bought on time, how long? Also terms
on which land can be rented for one
and more years, with condensed de-
scription of mines, minerals, manufac-
tories and water power capable of run
ming machinery, with facilities for
growing successfully and probably the
different kinds of stock. The facilities
for attending school and churches
should also be given, and should this
suggestion be adopted, l recommend
that all the exaggeration be avoided.
Exaggerated reports of heavy and
large crops, or other advantages, it is
believed, will in the end produce in
Jury rather than good. Let the esti-
mate be a reasonable one, that the en-
igrant will fully realize when he comes
and makes his home among you.
HON. A. BRADSHAW.