Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-11
TEXAs.

| TFNAS.
There is scarcely parallel Ia be
| found TO the outrageous Justification
and scandal which has been circulated
in reference to Texas aud "TeXicans,n
as the jolly cowboy would put IL. The
social status of her people, the poverty
of her lands and cattle; the morals,
manners, murders and methods of the
people of this state have each come in
for a share of distorted fact, equlvoca-
ton, deceptive statements or down
right falsebOod when they become
the subject of conversation or of
newspaper comment. The total in
difference of the Texan To the opin-
ions expressed in reference 10 his state
or himself coupled with the sinister
motives of those urging the wrong
statements, and the deep pocket in
terests of other sections of the Union,
have all combined to keep these false
hoods on the wing, until now they
have been blown 10 every corner Of
the globe and taken lodgment in
many minds MS deepseated conyic-
vions. Texas, as a state, has just ~
rich lands AS any other and nearly five
times as much as many of the largest
of them, either for agricultural or
grazing purposes. Texas has mineral,
coal, gold, silver, and copper In
equal ratio of acreage 10 any, ana
very much Ia excess of many other
states. She has the finest variety OF
woods on the earth, and Of some kinds
in inexhauslible quantities. Texas
has as many rivers, creeks ana sIhaii
streams neandering through her vast
expanse of territory, has as many
springs gurgiing from her hilirides'
sparkling with as much crystal purify,
and as health-giving ana liie-s'istiin,
ing as those found in any other equal
number of square miles IN the world.
Her climate is unsurpassed: the baliny
zephyrs waited over the whi,e-crested
waves of the gulf; the notorious
"norther,r so horribly over-pictnred
to the inexperienced, and the ever
gentle breezss waving from
east TO west and from
north to south, tanning alike
the brow Of the heroic cowboy with
his herd on the undulating prairie, OF
the lovely lady IN the home OF the
rich ranch owner in their progressing
towns aud cities, are all calculated To
paint the pink iinge OF health on the
cheeks of those who dwell beneath
Texas sky. In social quality her peo-
nile are educated, refined, ACCOMPLISHED,
intellectual and grandly generous,
with practical, everyday life rcpub-
llcapisni characterlsing their inter
course with one another, ana dIs-
tinetIy marked with an ease and grace
poetic in motion, and ciarmingly cap
tIyatipg to strangers. The Texan
n,ale-and feinale-is n model OF
democracy, as illustrated IN their bear
i,g. Afiible, kind-hear ed and nicely.
polite, without the slightest faint Of
dudejsm or snObbi-bness, as the moot
Thorough democrat could desire, 10
illustrate the opposite OF aristocracy.
Texas is an empire Of itself, and u mas
been the most genuine independence
of her people of the estimate the psI'
ance Of the world placed upon thenI'
which has permitted the false impress
slons made by the sinisier.niinded' ior
selfish purposes, 10 go thus long UNI
needed. The people OF the Lone star
state are arousing 10 realizing sense
of these misrepresentation, ana nclc,
after. when over-painted, sin.clounsu
pictures Of Texas are placed ~ we
scandal market Of the world. Tor tne
purpose OF preventing the industrious