The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-29
WORDS 10 M POWDERED.



The communication of "nHlla5n IN
Your issue NJ this muruinh under thD
head OF " BLOW your owl huru,n is N
ihe point and meeting the require
menls OF ,hl8 city and tho numprou,
counties mentioned, How many Well
t0-do farmers IN Western New YORK,
Pennsylvania, ONO and other ot lht
old States Of crowded population, who
have the accumulated savings Of years,
with which they would loo glad 10 SGT
up their children with their own
farms, In some new country ? The
lands about them have all long since
been settled-orlglnally purchased ut
cheap rates aud ~ large tracts, which
rom year TO year have been divided
and subdlyided TO meet the demands
~ increasing population, Wtll the pre-
sent farm limits Of each are too small
TO divide into additional farms for the
retention and accommodated OF the
aud the values have been so
enhanced as to leave no profit in the
investment Of buying out adjoining
farms, 80 long AZ the great breadth OF
cheaper lands westward may be ob.
aimed and hence so great the tide ol
immigration for many years past from
these older States, 10 Kansas, Iowa,
Nebraska, Wisconsin, Colorado, Cali.
fornia, Oregon, Ne, OF the young,
bold, vigorous, and enterprisiug, and
often backed by capital enough to
start new homes and business. How
many hundreds Of thousands Of the
nardy and industrious farmers and
-killml mechanics have transpanted
themselves aud families from Norway,
sweden, Denmark Germany, France
and Great Britain to the "Great West, -
Iandng often with plttance Of purse,
nut whose industry, skill and frugahty
have secured homes, comforts and
wealth for themselves, and developed
hat great wilderness of u few years
since into one vast aud magnificent
panorama of agricultural perfection,
Iotted with towns, villages and cities
Of elegance and opulence, all giving
evidences Of prosperity, aud bearing
testimony TO the "bone aud sinewn
which wrought such rapid and MAJ.
velous conversion? How many man
enterprises, with their eX-
perience and capital, have pulled up
rom the crowded competition of New
England aud other Eastern States, and
planted themselves aud their artisans
N these Westernc tiles, and are to-day
rapidly enriching themselves by meet
ing the demands Of Tennessee, Missis-
,ippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas
with their wagons, plows, axes, lurni-
'ure, soap, starch, shirtings, blankets,
shoes, cotton, harness. etc? How
many of them are being supplied
rather how long could these establish
ments survive, not TO say thrive the
of our raw cotton, hides
and wool, or the Withdrawal OF our
patronage as their most liberal Con-
sumers Of their fabrications" How
many other owners Of mills and 0bun-
liant capital are yearning to remove
West, and who may be induced to
change their thoughts and inclinations
rom the West to the Southwest--to
rexas, Northern Texas and Dallas :?
Would you-would your neighbors &c
have thousands, hundreds ofthousands,
Of the same classes--the same charac-
ter Of developers, the same money
producers and wealth-eXtorters-to oc-
cupy the lands aud fill up the great
avenues Of employment and profit for
skill and capital? Would you increase
your bushels of wheat crops and your
barrels of flour, your bags of cotton
and bales of shecting your lleeces of
wool and cases OF tlannels, blankets
and yarns? Would you improve the
stock, multiply your herds, and manu-
lacture the hides into shoes and har-
ness ut home aud in your own midst?
Would you the true value of Texas
soil prove by the severest test of its ca
pacity in the yield Of whatever con-
tributes to the sustenance ana comfort
of man and beast and to the establish
ment of the growth and prosperity of
your towns and cities Of Dallas =?
If SO, then briRg these potent influences
to bear--these specifics, population and
capital. We say bring them, because
we know that they must be sought and
that industriously and persistently,and
lust precisely AS Illinois, Michigan,
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, nc, have
done and are still doing. They are
spending much time, tabor and money
in seeking and bringing these very ele-
ments of their deVelopment--these
very influences of population end
capital which Texas needs; and these
only to place her where most emphatic
ally, her natural resources and advant-
ages, so justly entitle her-pre-cminent
in agricultural, industrial and CONNER
cial greatness.
,Seek then to acquire such valuable
influences. To do so requires the care
full and judicious, but liberal dissemina.
ton of such facts about Texas, and
Dallas and yourselves and your laws
your taxes, and schools, and churches
and health and productions and trans
nortation and all such matters rs y0u
would yourself like to know, and 'eoaLd
know, before you would abandon Old
homes and associations and plant your
selves and your families and your
capital ana your All III I" ne" anu
strange country. Dallas business men
and property-holders can afford to sow
now generally and Ms certainly as
they sow, they will reap the harvest
if they sow not they will not reap the
harvest of other sewers; and who are
in all the Northern and Western States
with logged perseverance and
A liberal hand over the world, with a
most unfalteridg faith in the harvest in
its due time. Of course, they will not
sow seed for you, nor for me, nor for
Texas, and simply because it is not
their interest, not their business-and
can YOU blame them? Well, who will
but Yourselves? For one, allow me to
most heartily indorse the suggestion
of Dallas n-flood the whole country
behind and especially. the "Centen-
NAL D with such documents as may at
tract the attention of the world to Dali
las and Dallas interests, and l am ready
to contribute my mite.
SEIF-I INTEREST,",