Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-07
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE
Sons Of Toll SOlidly Arrayed Agalps
Monopoly and Wrong.
Social Ideas Which May Yet Overshadow
the Whole Country.

Social Ideas Which May Yet Overshadow
the Whole Country.
Magic Growth of Alyord-Fr0m Sylvan
Solitude to Active Trade.
Special Correspondence of the Gazette
ALvoRD, May 3.-The wonderful
changes wrought by the railroads
throughout the state Is matter of sur
prise to those who are accustomed to
the settled and staid habits of the dem
liens Of the old commonwealth. The
wilderness Of to-day is the city of to-
morrow, and where the prairies APP
peared the bleakest and the woods the
densest and most uninviting is often
transformed, as if by magic, into the
most flourishing towns. Two years
ago the site of this town was sylvan
solitude where no man found local
habitation, nor the place even name.
when 1 drove up to yonder tree,n
said DIR. Proctor, one of the pioneers,
pointing to one of a clump in front of
his large two'story house, "this place
was about as wild-looSing as
you can easily imagine; the
grass was as high as my buggy.
wheels, and if anyone was looking for
a town they would have TO travel
| further ~ Thlra haa han.,
transformation in this short space OF
time; streets lined with business
houses churches, hotels and resi-
dences have been erected until now
there Is one ofthe most thriving towns
in the state. Hubbard IL Co. nave an
excellent Touring mill, and are pre-
pairing to erect II cotton gin of great
capacity, and the brick-yards in opera
ton Will furnish material for Rlore
substantial buildings than the pine
forests of Eastern Texas have been
supplying Everything seems to indi-
cate progress and advancement; the
huge trunks of the felled trees are
: palng converted into wood that finds
, ready sale in the prairie towns, and
. It's removal opens broad streets. New
buildings are going up in every direc-
ton, and their white walls glinting
through the trees can be seen on
all sides. and at night when
lamps are lighted in the coy homes,
e and the busy business center is de.
:, serted, one is forced to fancy that he
is in the home of fire flies giimmerinp
through the branches. 1t is one OF
i the places where energy, public spirii
n and enterprise, coupled with favored
! location, have combined, and though
+. much has been done the beginning is
only known. One secret of success Il
{ in the liberality of property-owners.
n When home-seeker asked for land
e whereon to build his castle, prices were
\ not raised up TO the moon, The Fort
: Worth & Denver City railroad owns
. number of lots, and many more are
e owned by citizens, all OF which are
N held at figures accessible to men OF
10 small means. IL would be a blessing
y If the same spirit was displayed ia
V other places where workingmen are
at cooped up in sultry quarters forced
he TO breathe the hot air arising from
IA brick walls and parched payements
ana ali because some man happened Ia
VI secure the ground while it was chear
e. aud is holding 1t while Others buiIf
IN around and enrich him with that "nn.
l.. earned increment which John
- Stuart Mill says does not Justly belona
10 TO him. In this place the wish o
y, every wife and the ultimate object n
n every husband Is gratifi ID and nccom
m plished-everybody has home, nnf
- the creeping vines, the fragrant flow
p ers and the evidences of care and tns,e
al on all sides observable, speak of 1i,.
n. happiness aud contentment foun,
therein.
y, Tue country around is the riches
III section of one of the richest corntie
by In the state; there are hundreds y
he. thousands of bushels of corn store,
In throughout the country, which sneal,
~ OF the Independence of the farmer
ire who can afford to hold tho
&c, sa siyePP, but Ut say wh Mh't , viii y0
,is lake,. People seem healthy, stron,
- ahd vigorous why, out of one hundre,
CT men ! coulu select hinety whose broa,
lie chests would sell to some of your ba nj
~ ers for ten thousand dollars an;ao jan;
~, their owners could and woula disnoa
i"i OF them. IL Is one of the heaitii;oo
places In the state, | am told. fhe nj
III. Is so pure that the ground is covered i
in some places with petrified shells tres
- and branches. Since the town starts
'e' ~ has attracted many merchants fror
Ter those little country towns distant fro,
N the railroad, and with its adyantaoa
in and the start II has taken there is n
no doubt but whatit will be one OF tL
he best business places on the road "
nut ~
he The Farmers Alliance held mee,
ds lug at this place to-day. The loda
ho contains over 100 members. and ne,
!. accesslons are swelling the numhe
y" every meeting. II Is supplantinv In
tie zation in several important rssnsci.
,re ~ originated, am told in the state
=" out In the west, when under tha a nj
ne ministration Of Gov. Coke there - WA va
Ter such tide OF immigration flowing T i"
le- These immigrants came in tno. W
oh purchased homesteads and comr n up y
vn Improving them. They Were ss,o,'
~. ished 70 lind that the titles to the Ian lam
irs w were IN question, and that a sli
or well-worked technical ilaw so mn
:" where In the chain ~ so t',s