The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-08
VINO SHOULD COME TO TEXAS,

The ~ Louis Times gives as credit
Tor great oandor on the subject Of im-
migration 10 Texas We took occasion
20 say that persons unacqualnted with
farming operations generally, and the
productions Of the south especially, aud
wbswere without the means 10 pur'
chase or stock farm, or even TO buy
tho necessary provisions for a year
should not come, We do not
regard tho circumstance ~ worthy
Of quite 80 much commentator m
II has received Is oandor indeed 50
lOro quality that its exhibition should
create q (ror6 The truth Is, our ~
Louis contemporary looks with an evil
oyo upon the myriods of emlganlS OF
the better |, O., the sofaustainlng class,
who ARE leaving Missouri and the other
cold and inhospltable states of the
northwest, for our favored land Of the
new promise,
The farmer in Missouri who works a
hundred acres aud who has raised say,
four sons Ia sure 20 be u little force
handed. II won't do to divide the old
Homestead into four equal parts and put
tho boys 10 work Tho hoardings Of
the years past are divided and perhaps
the old homestead sold, The money
Is in hand whercwith to purchase lond
to give each reasonable amount ol
sufficient to build up new and scpcr
nto home for them, 70 such people
to u family situated az this one is, aud
il is character sketch, we say here
ia tho place, and for the following
among other reasons,
The old Missouri acres will sell for
say u hundred dollars apiece the Texas
land, far richer more productive and
in mildcr aud more genial climate
surrounded with equally good markets
producing rs much wheat, rye, ools
barley, corn and sorghum, and cotton
which the old land would not, can be
hal for dollar and half per acre
This gives ample money to buy each a
farm, stock il, aud leave plenty Tor
ustenonce until the new land has
yielded enough TO support all hands,
These are the people, this is the class OF
immigration we need, aud these are the
the people who should come, and VIII
do well themselves and bc useful in
opening up and settling our new en-,
pWc
Colonel Spencer gentleman from
Georgia, came out here expecting to
find money growing on the trees, ol
at least within easy reach Of his wits
He was vastly disappointed when hc
found that 1t took labor, money and
brain, all three, to succeed hcre, lie
went back Lome in disgust, and j,
now engaged through the papers tell
ing the young men OF Georgia that they
had better stay NJ home, and gives then
no better reason than his own failure
which certainly reflects but little crcdi
upon him, aud can only deter the very
class which would hil il they were t,
come.
We can point to very many Georgian
who came to Texas pennilcss, and wh,
have succeeded 10y their own efforts
unaided by capital or powerful friends
Yet we do not advise this experiment
only in those cases where the detcrmi
nation to force success is powerful
enough to graphic with and overcome
MI the great obstacles which amy sensi
ble man can see that circumstances o
this kind would naturally place in hi
way. This fair land OF Texas has beer
not inaptly called the poor's man prom
ised land. So it is. But thel
it supposed that the poor MAJ
has energy, frugal:y, and both n know
edge of, and disposition to work
otherwise he will fail, rs did Colonc
Spencer. Let men como here with
little money, much energy and sclI-re
lance, and without some providentio
hmderOnce they will succeed, Withou
these qualities they would starvo /
death in the garden of Eden.
The President OF tho People.