Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-31

CeptiOn OF any mind.
10 show that all this Is not hyperbole
as applied TO Texas but plain facts we
have only TO glance back at the progress OF
settlement and civilization from the begin
ming. Aside from the stream OF popula-
tion which early set in eastward from the
hypothetical cradle Of the human race and
which was soon brought TO stand on the
Asiatic shore OF the Pacific oceau.w we have
the longer MISUNDERSTANDING stream, FIRST
TO Greece and Rome, then to Western
Europe, then over the Atlantic ,gnd dnally
across the continent of America 10 our
Western seaboard on the Pacific. And
there upon the opposite sides Of this great
ocean these two streams must forever
cease their aow-the Asiatic civilization
on the one side, and the Latin and Anglo
Saxon civilization on the other--eyeing
each other now with wistful interroga-
ton, II not presently with bloody intent.
For, although in times past the world has
been full OF wars over the shadow OF ou
idea, in the name of religion or OF civili-
cation, the old-time right OF might never
having found a substitute, the old-time
ultimate appeal OF brute force never
having found anything TO take It's place
aud although the war sentiment In some
quarters is becoming Questionable, and
men are talking about the total abolition
of brute force in the settlement of the
affairs of nations, and the sub
stitution OF arbitration and interna-
tional congresses organized on the basis
Of reason and intellectual rule, yet the
signs Of the times point TO something
more real aud tangible for men to fight
about than anything they have ever yet
had, and that is q fight Tor standing room
Up TO the present time Europe has had a
West for It's surplus populations; the
United States have had a West; but now
when there is no more West, what are
Europe and America TO do? What will
the civilized world do with no more saw
agism left within the temperate zoneY
This is why the near future OF Texas
seems to us so pregnant Of mighty results
Lands orPevery side OF us are higher and
III many cases poorer than our lands; as
against 81 and S. an acre land in Caliior-
MIA sells for $50 and 500, and in Oregon
and Washington from $50 TO $50 an acre
There is no more West for the young man
to 90 TO for cheap land, and there is but
one Texas.
Again, as land becomes scarce
we should be more careful what
elements of population we in
vite or admit. AS Mr.. Bancroft has
frequently pointed out in his writings, If
this matter OF indiscriminate and unlimit-
ed immigration had been properly taken
up by our people and the influx checked,
the United States would be vastly the bet
ter for IL to-day. Probably Texas has
suffered has little as any state of the re-
public from the importing Of a bad ele-
ment from Europe, though we have had
enough OF it here. We want those here
only who will read and think and work.
The writings of-Alr Bancroft, carefully
studied by our people, would exercise a
great influence throughout the land for
good. Among other things we would see
how baneful has been this promlscuous
immigration from Europe and Asia, and
promiscuous voting of ignorant white
men and black men alike in the other
states and territories covered by his
works We would learn more highly to
prize our position, our privileges
and orr illimitable possibilities. In
the absorbing struggle for wealth men
are apt to forget what they owe to them
selves, 10 their families and to their coun-
try In the way Of el encouraging ana patron
iLing such works 5 these of Mr.. Bancroft
"There was glamour says recent
number of The GAZETTE, hanging around
all this region long after the more south
ern sections were fully known, arising
from the early rumOrs of strange nations,
rich cities, and intec-oceanic straits. For
long time it was the III Dorado OF Mex
leo, the colony OF a colony, with fields of
enterprise In war, Mining and stock rails
ing. 1t was the grandest Of missionary
lands, where Jesuits and Francisc0ns
stroYe to redeem souls and establish syg-
tens for communal societies. The cross
becomes the real path-opener, in whose
wake follow the typical missions and pre-
sidios, here intensified in reality more
against foreign encroachments than
against the Indiaus. Round these places
settlements clustered-the friar, the sol
der, the settler, mingling with
pirates, smugglers, and political
schemers, the dusky aboriginal being
good for all. Thus the history OF Texas
unfolds with peculiar interest as it drops
from the nerveless grasp of Mexico, as
sumes independence, and finally merges
as the largest member, full of mighty
possibilities, into the more progressive
republic We might go on and elaborate
concerning the restless colomsts Of the
oAANNN Rbs'NNN SNN OpNnhlsS iOl lItsU
enterprise, the results of which, both
political and social, can be traced through
subsequent empire founding all along
the road westward OF the Pacific ocean
the effects which remain to-day and which
never can be wholly obliterated, what
ever the destiny OF the people and the
country. But enough has been said we
trust, to satisfy our readers that this
work of Mr.. Bancroft is of Importance
is of vital Importance to the people OF
Texas in all their social and material re.
latlons-and we greatly misunderstood
our people If they do not extend to Mr..
Bancrofts collaborators not only cor
dial welcome, but efficient and material
aid by every means in their power.D
The ideas and sentiments OF Mr.. Ban
croft, rs we find them fully set forth in
y - ssissss issssssA are idss,!ca! with
found thinkers q the age. The foremost
principles of progress he aims to apply 60
the work he has in hand And, further
more, he is now doing for Texas what he