Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-23
TEXAS.
The Appeals Editorial on TranspOrta-
tfOn-Dtssatished Immigrants are
Those Who WOn't Work.
A Good Lesson Well TOId-An IHustra-
tyon that Ought Not 10 be Lost
Money as a Medium
Etc Etc.


From an Occasional Correspondent
FORT WORTH, October IS I notice
in your weekly of a d. te not long past that
you close an article against Texas i.rmigra-
ton by saying that going west TO grow up
with the country" was not what 1t Was writ
ten up TO be, or words to that edect, anu
urged those disposed to roam to remain on the
Old homestead, instead of flying on look Tor
the good land, which, like The horizon, re-
ced, at your approach There was much
sound, practical, good hard sense in that aTti-
Gle, and IL should De cad, especially by Ger
tain class that desire to emigrstt to avoid
work, old-fashio ed cornfeld work. Texas
has been written to be the poor mans para
disc; this is true if he desires to emaiu poor
man, for he can raise beef and bread cheaper
here than in any southern State, and the cli-
mate is less rigorous than any; bat in order
TO get above poverty men must work here as
well as elsewhere. All cal ingS that are sep
arated from the cultivation of The soil are full
to overlooking We have in this state clerks,
doctors, lawyers, mechanics, and artisans OF
every trade, enough, II they were properly put
on duty, to do the business of their liue Tor
twenty years without relief. Horace
Greeley's "young man so west" has unsettled
that the visionary enthusiast is the first to
run away wi The idea. The hard worker
looks well before ne moves, He mas once
worked himself from the ground, and in do
ing this he learns men and things IN practi
cal way that holds him steady IN The moving
gale. write this 1rtlcle not 10 delerior u
from my ado pied State, for know there are
forces at work in the natural course Of events
that Will people Texas in spite of any thing
form those who would cGmewhat they must
expect, and I abbreviated in Carlyles word
csis # Ged- Va" We Of 0 this state are
really tired of seeing men women and chill
oren drifting about from pill ar to post, Ike
the uomads of The desert. T8ey come uuder
heavy pressure OF the immigration they cut
their possessions hall In Two TO get here, and
they are never worth anything to the state as
producers till they spend their last cent and
starvation stares them in the face. 9hls Is not
general, for We nave men OF means sna
energy, who come here, and who know what
they can uOwItn Their means ana their mus
Gle, end settle down ana do it with a Will.
such men immed laJely com pei respect. But
this Himless, shiitleSs class that steer for the
towns and when they get there begin TO wear
out their eecond-rate clothes that they had IN
1.-THE states, /" and talk about what they used
to have, and who they were akin o. and what
they used to do when they mad money, and
abuse the country because there Is not more
life in 1t, when they are the class Who con-
same all and produce nothing, are not the
ones to thrive in Texas. A good Old-fashioned
TenneS can, was out here not long since and
told o. three fellOw-Tenut sSt aus who had wan
dered over the State since the war, ever on the
pad, looking for place where man could
get q ong without work, gathered ABOUT the
old man and said ~ ell, II : was nack IN ola
Tennessee just ike was when left, would
stay there" Eyes, but" said the old man,
"that what's the matter; If you had been
there you would not have been any better of
than here, because you won't work" The OLD
man said he meant business, aud would not De
here long before he would make a hole in the
multiply and replenish The earth. There are
some WHO imagine That Texas is such & place
AS they told me Arkansas was when l was
boy and fond of molasSes. The romancer IN
the family said that Arkansas was full OF mo-
lasses ponds and candy canoes, with candy
sticks for paddles, and tritter trees stood Out
in the middle of the ponds full OF but,eTed
fritters, and all you had to do was to step 1utO
the canoe and paddle out 20 them and shake
and sop. Texas will have larger immigra-
ton from the south and northwest tn8n ever
before for years TO come; and here is the silent
influence al work: The Ohio election means
that the bondholders will have gold or close
out, There are millions advanced by them on
property in these regions on greenbacR
basis. The contraction in currency Will con-
Iinue till the value OF property OF all Kinds
will depreciate in another year at least nifty
per cent. of the already low rates Men wal
be sold out and forceu out by scores to this
eighty acres and every head of family one
hundred and sixty acres for the coming. 1t
is true they pass on to the extreme frontier,
where they must band together TO fight the
Comanches ana KiOwas, but they will tell
you this company is preferable To merciless
Shylocks that suck up the life current OF the
nHtion. The same pale that rests over COM
meTce with you is here, only We raise our
state debts to pay. The cry with us is
" money" as medium OF exchange. Your
venerable river man, Captain jim Lee used
to say, TO illustrate hard times, " If steamboats,
were worth two bits piece, couldn't buy
sJage-plank." So il is with US. The time viii
come, however, in the experience too Of some
now in existence, when the south will rise
from its sackclOth and ashes and will rejoice
as did Job when his possessions were restored
with hundred per cent. on his investment.
That time will be when the specie men So
paralyZe the spindles and looms OF the north,
that they will be driven south to save the
margin on the expense of shipping and doing
up The raw material so far from It's base OF
supplies.