The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-02-17
WHAT WE WAN n.

Within the single county of Travis, di-
there is every favorable variety of tempera-
ture and soil for the production of three
successive crops, each year, upon the same
spot. There are mountains and deep glens
and broad, fertile plains and the rivers ex-
uberant valley. There is stone, the best
for building purposes in America, easily
quarred, cheaply wrought, and only made
somewhat costly by that unworthy selfish
ness which sometimes af1icts towns and re-
stricts the action of railways. But this OBJ
struction to progress and repuision of toll
ing populations will soon be obviated by
broader intelligence injected into local
government, and the quarries, three miles
above Austin along the banks of the spark
ling Colorado, will become the scene of
active industry for multitude of quarters
and stone-cutters. Here, too, is water
power more limItless and more readily util-
lied than that which has made Lowell in
the North, and Augusta and Columbus, Ca,
In the South, the richest, busiest and most
productive of American cities. There are
cedar forests along the river and covering
the mountain sides never utilized, and the
world deems us barbarians who use the ma
terial of which Gods temple of old was
constructed as common fuel, building
| fences with it and destroying great forest
each year almost in the suburbs of the
capital. There is not bucket or tub made
In Travis county, where the material to be
used costs nothing. There is not cotton
mill, where cotton and fuel are side by side
and railways to furnish skilled industry
from abroad, at point where snow and
Ice are almost unknown, and where
refreshing winds blow perennially from
the neighboring sea and the heat of summer
Is never as intense as in the cities of the
North and East. Beside the richest corn
and cotton fields we have here collocated
every favorable variety of temperature, at
mosphere, soil, minerals, stone, water
power and transportation, scenery, wood
and forests, fish and game, where near
ly all useful vegetation grows or can be
grown. The New York Sun saws that be-
cause of defects of Southern systems of in.
dustry there exists an universal demand fol
white labor. In part, this is to be attrib-
uted to the negro's ignorance, Incidence
and an innate or habitual want of forecast
and ambition; and, in part, to his antaeo
nism to his white employers interest and
status. He has also 8 repugnance to i'm
proved culture, improved implements, use
full manuring, watchful economy and per
manent and active exertion and plan
Therefore, the large portion of the whites
particularly those who own the lands
clamor for white immigrants and laborer
of ali classes:
THE desired white labor should not onl,
be agricultural, but, in large proportion,
skilled in all the mechanical and artisan in
dustries. Household female employees alsC
are numerously required.
The immigrant labor to the Sautf
should hereafter become in part, at least
proprietary, as well as largely manual
THIS involves the urgency Of obtaining
:, class of Immigrants that are not only skill
letul and industrious, but intelligent, cana
BILE OF keeping pace with progress and o
thinking and planning for themselves
Facts like these affecting the fortunes o
the city and the coming of the Internauonn
road and the possibilities of its extensiol
TO the Rio Grande and across Mexico 70 III