The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-27
TEXAS AND KANSAS.
The Fort Worth Democrat asks tbs



The Fort Worth Democrat asks tn,
STATEsMAN:
Why land csn be bouzht 10 T,xa
for fifty cents an acre as productive a
that of Kansas which costs 50 pel
acre. Is it because of immigration
ch'cked2 Aud why is immigration
checkeol Is it because OF crime en-.
c. uraged aud popular education dis.
cJuragec2 And who is it that com.
mu'es the sentences of convicted Grim
iuals, that wouldn't encourage immi.
grafton 20 the extent of paying a do.
lar family for immigrants, and that
vetoed public appropriation ma le in
acco. dance withDcmocrst'c precedents,
Democratic constitutions and Demo.
cratic pledges Will TIE Austin
STATE NAN tell US why land in Kansas
is worth S. and land IN Texas only fifty
centsg
Stop just there. Who cruelty re.
fuses, if the SheIman papers bo trust.
worthy, to pardon murderer Who
seeks even to have university and
school lands put upon the market thai
immigration may be promoted and
State revenues increased? Who is go de-
voted to the promotion of immigration
that he would deprive the great seat OF
learning of the future of Its richest re.
source that population of to-day may
be multiplied and untaxed, and popu.
lations of the future deprived of rich.
est revenues for costliest learning
He vetoed bill appropriating mil
lion dollars to schools, worse than
worthless, as attested by Dr.. Sears, and
then this Governor approved, from nc
cessity, bill which wastes only two-
thirds of this sum. Taxpayers saved
much and the cause of education lost
nothing. II the Democrat would know
why multitudes rush to Kansas and
the West let it irqulre why gold and
silver were scattered SO profusely about
LeadYille, why Kansas is on the iso-
thermal line of migration of the
worlds moving millions ani Ttxas is
far of this highway OF prog
ress. And yet Texas, because
of its extraordinary attEactiveness of
soil and climate grows in wealth and
population, in spite of its location in
remote corner of the continent, with
amazing rapiditY. That the railways
OF the eastern side of the Mississippi
converge at the St. Louis bridge, and
from that point westwardly transconti
mental railways move restless multi
tudes is no fault of the government o:
Texas. Kansas is only fortunate that
she is on, and Texas luckless that
she is off, the path about the
globe which its millions follow
by an irrepealable law of migration.
But Texas does exert forces of at
traction and has charms enough, des-
pite marvellous lies disbursed as genu-
inc coin of patriotic truth by Northern
newspapers and plrty-leaders, to draw
hither the best European and American
populations. When these have come
until population is as dense as in Kan
sas, when Texans are as rich, when
we have regained all that wac
lost by war, when It. xas recoY-
eTs from the shock given by
buresux, reconstruction committees
and ghastlg MameIukes that preyed
upon society, wealth and civilization,
when Texas and the South and towns
Of incident to haHG 5fsn BfsEsa
in Kansas but thrust into ballot boxes
IN Texas, when Texas and Its towns
and cities like those of X ansas, are
governed by white men, and finally
whan the population of Texas, per
square mile, is as dense as that of Kan
sss, this will be the richer, more pros
porous, and more delightful
abiding place of man. Let
US say to the Fort Worth Democrat that
Kansas, by trans-continentAl railways.
has been made tunnel through which
the wealth and multitudes of the ma
tions are forced, while Texas is in still
water. There is no mighty current OF
nations crossing Texas. This is an
ultimathule that becomes a garden
only because God smiles and His winds
blow and sun shines and the sea laves
it's glittering, shell-paYed shores more
kindly and generously than any por-
ton of His footstool.
When stalwartism is no longer re-
warded for abuse and vilification
of Texas and of the South with offices
and honors, when the choicest farms
In the finest climate in the world exert
legitimate sttractiveness, when we
have recovered from the effects of wal
and of wretched and more ruinous
governments, when we have discover
ed that that government is best which
governs least and when people learn
teat they can educate for themselves
their own children, more wisely and
cheaply, than any government or ring
for them, then Texas will be richer
and happier and more popuous and
and productive than Kansas, and not
till then.