Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-13

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his hOliloquy I interrupted him with
the side remark, LAS compared with
Massachusetts,, no but when Il 90 mes
TO comparing Ohio with Texas. Won
are next to nowhere. with poor
chance 70 get theren He looked his |
doubts, but 1 set them at rest promptly |
by demonstrating to his entire sstis- |
faction that Ohio is less than one |
sixth as much of n whale as this COW |
country In which he now proposes to !
vegeiate In the future. Ohio Is nearly |
five times rs large SO Massachusetts,
but Texas is 90 much larger than Ohio
as Ohio Is larger than the province
OF which "Bosting and culcherl arc
the central attractions.
Tennessee, even, IL larger than Ohio,
and Kentucky Is just behind, but all
three of theee great states are Just
about one.half IS large as the Lone
Btar staten
Indiana is No "a, Maine ia No. %,
South Carolina No 20 and West Viz
ginis No. 30. aud each one Of them is
larger than the kingdom Of Greece;
each OF them, except West Virginia,
is about the size OF Bonnie s OF
lsnd." Yet Texas Is nearly seven
times as large as Indiana, more than
eight times ss large as Maine, not
quite nine times as large as South Caro-
lima and fully ten times as large aS
West Virginia.
When we get down to Maryland,
| No. 81, we begin to strike
| the little fellows and no
mi take. And after spending
a year or more in Texas, and getting
up into New England, we feel like
taking bearings hourly 10 determine
in what state we are in, as we sauuter
about for mornings walk. Our
Yankee friends urn up their noses,
| slightly, when we venture TO indulge
in such a rejection sloud, hut we can
| always make them turn up their eyes,
too, when we draw the papers on
them,n and show them that their lie.
tie "lRnd claimsn could be 10 lost in
"big TeXRs,n that surveyor would
have to find them when wanted
Fact? Absolutely fact, as will be
Understood when give the figures as
follows: Maryland Is but one
twentieth as large as Texas, while II
would take twenty-eight VermOnts,
thirty New HBmpshlres or tnlrty-t NO
Massachusetts TO make up &
state rs large as Texas; these
three ststes standing IS Nos. 81, 80 anC
"a in Our list.
New Jersey has exactly ss many
, votes In the senate OF the United Statei
AZ we have, and 30 each have Connec
tiout, Delaware and Rhode Island
And in point Of ability, perhaps the.
are as we'll represented as we. Blu
, whenever either OF the senators from
I these little "baillwicksn get ION thei
Z ears" and begin to put on airs"
f fancy Mr.. Coke or Gen. ha1ey could
3 take the starch out ofthem"byTemlnd
ing them that, 30 far as extent OF lsti
Z tude and longitude 10 concerned, thei
[ states are not extensive; on the con
$ trsry, New jersey, No. 80, and thirt
OF one hundred other states as eXten
: sive as New Jersey would just Occup!
[ Texas, while it would require fou
a more thanthe half OF one hundred state
as large IS Connecticut, No.S6,to cove
T the ground And ~ for Delaware
II No, 81, one hundred and thirty sue
S states would not "hll up our borders
while we could lose Rhode Island Il
e one OF our smaller counties; or 10 pu
I, the idea in another form: II Texas WEI
- TO be cut up in states, each one the si2
ia of Rhode Island, We would have Jul
1
In the United STATS senate, instead
Ir two, as now.
II / apprehend I have written quit
II enough on this subject, big as 1t Is, b'
n before / quit 1t let me add one mol
,e observation, viz: ThGt the empI
" state Of Texas il moro than two an
81 one.half times "a large % all the Nil
a ole states, according 10 the old geo
Of raphies, Hf New York, New Jerse
"a Pennsylvania and Delaware combine
and ali the New EnglEnd states
,e Maine, New Hampshire, Vernon
il Massachusetts, Rhode Islal
ID and Connecticut could
or nestled down in one corner
n. this state, and still leave unoccupu
4 of the state a territory large enough !
m three times ~ many more states
- equal aggregate extent.
11 II Is ia view ofthe above facts thS'
~ venture TO remark In conclusion thi
We Texas is 2 whale among the saLdln
"a that 20 to make up tho school OF nSh
dubbed by common consent, lh'
m. United Statea of America