The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-11

many of the moulders of public
opinion, in Dallas and the surround
ing country, have thought, for an
instant, of the best place TO build up
an institution of learning that in a
few years will be the cause of pre-
paratory schools for the university
springing up in every county in the
state, thereby doing more for gene
raj education than all else that has
ever been accomplished In Texas?
The writer asks that the accumula-
ton OF the almighty dollar be for
moment dispensed with that the
great question of higher education
might be properly settled i'll Texas,
that we may, as has been done
in the older states, locate and estab-
lish university rejecting the en-.
larged intellect of Texans, and
attracting the enlightened people of
all countries towards our fertile pral-
ries and valleys and to our towns and
cities. AS to the location of the uni
versity this writer says:
"Voters should. consider carefully
the location that offers the best adj
vantages for the permanent and GER
tam success of the institution, where
IL Will be most largely attended and
where, being by law under the con-
troll of the state government, it can
be- most economically managed. Let
! Us select a place that is not only ac-
cessible now to almost every portion
of Texas, but that gives promise of
| being in short time easily accessi-
BILE by rail to all sections of the en-
tire state. Let us choose a COM
handing and elevated site for the
university, unsurpassed for universe
ty purposes in America, and stu
ated in a city, which for picturesque
beauty there is none more lovely,
not only in Texas, but in the
south. Let us have the uni
versity buildings erected at a place
where they can be built handsomely
of rock or granite at a far less ex-
pense than elsewhere, so that some
of the university fund may remain to
pay the salaries of the professors.
Let us send the young men who are
to attend the university, to place
noted for its local advantages of a
bracing and healthy climate, itelli-
gent society, prosperous churches of
every denomination, but also noted
rs being the capital of our empire
state. 1t is the city of Austin to
which we refer as the proper place
for the location of the state univer-
| sity of Texas, and the site for the
university to which we alluded is
the one set aside for this special pur-
pose in 1889 by the fathers of Texas,
which, ever afterwards known as
"University HILL" has, during all the
political changes through which the
state has passed in the last forty-two
years, been held in sacred reserva-
ton for the location of the univer-
sity. And though it has been said
they were not the Fathers of Texas,
and that in this advanced age such
talk is but sentiment and gush, call
them then old settlers, the pioneers
of Texas who left behind them the
comforts 'of civilization and with
brawny arms and brave hearts and
strong minds repulsed the Indians,
defeated the MeXicans, reclaimed a
wilderness into prosperous coun-
try and decided it to the present
generation. Can any true, honest, in
telligent man call it sentimental
gush to have respect and reverence
for the wishes of these early pi-
oneers? They evinced a remarkable
foresight and good judgment in the
site which they laid off for the uni
versity of Texas. And now that
all the changes that have taken
place since that early day have been
for the better, why not adopt their
choice and let the state university of
Texas have attached to its history
for all times the memory of the early
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