Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-28
why BEG ABROAD?
The Great state Of Texas Doing Her
self an Injury by Asking Other
states 10 Give Her wheat.
Fast Cannot help Their Drought
Stricken NeiRbbors oftbe Weet.

bAIBpIEt va ycbtefdhyt WHbu 4 was ~
creased up with machine grease where
was getting some work done, / stepped
into one Of these immense hardwar,
stores which look like ali out Of doors II
West Texas, 70 get an article needed II
tho shop a Rood.looking, intelllgen
gentleman oIlWes.ern appearance stepped
IN and proceeded 10 tell the milllonair,
proprietor that he was soliciting aid u
purchase wheat for the distressed people
u Coleman equity, Texas, Ire said that
not a grain OF corn, wheat or anything
WAS made therej that great destitutlon
was prevailing, and that he wanted
enough 70 buy carload Of wheat and
$40 Tor freight, was about 10 sneak
out In behalf OF the Coleman man, but
before got an opportunity the million
aire's cauBtic remarks changed my mind
will not give the names, but viii call
the solicitor P, which may stand
for plety, preacher or phllanthroplst, and
the other will call NJ, which NAV
mean meanness, miser or millionaire
NJ Is the stricken district larger
T.. Yes Showing map, including oil
tho mesquite grass region--all the coun.
ties settled the last ten years.
Nj How about those big crops read
about In the newspapersY
r.. That IL 10 the old farming counties
hundred miles cast. They will have
abundance 10 spare, but prices will be
high, and the railroads charge $50 car
from there.
Nj Has Coleman raiIroadY
n Yea; just built.
M Well, when was barefooted
boy up IN Boon's Lick, then the extreme
western settlement In Missouri, 10 1892,
when there were big spots on the sun, a
frost came ard bit all the corn, and we
raised nothing else. My father and his
aelBhbors went with pack.horses ono
railroads them, taking three weeks for
me trip, 100 miles 70 st. Charles, TO get
corn. Those that had anything 70 pay
With paid 10 cents those that had nothing
tho 81 Charles farmers supplied without
pay, Cannot your farmeIH. -IsAat t44tt,
showers fel1, supply them without pay2
And cannot the railroads haul the SUP.
piles without pay3
Farmers this year can Get cash for
their corni aud railroads are oorpora-
lions, not men
NJ How came these people out thereY
J SOC from your map that Coleman county
aud all tho etricken district rs whore the
old map, which studied On that old log
schoolhouse, with long windows covered
Y great board without glass, up IN
boon's LICK, where Gen. Clark, Gov.
Jackson, jim Birch and all those great
men We're educated) had great specks on
il, looking as II hot sand had been
spflnkled over II, and was called the
Great American desert. Down where
Coleman IN was part OF II and had |
another name, LiAno Estacado. / put
my nnger on That hard word and went nm |
70 the old lame pedagoguo (nobody that
eouiu work taught them, who did not
know English or Spanish; but he knew
mat no one else knew better, so he SMELL.
cd out tho outlaudlsh word and said.
"Llano, In Spanish, means sand, and az.
facade means on hre--sand on flre.n Aal
! sat down bad boy whispered, "That
Is the place nam whipped no for SAYING
sunday
~ II was then thought to be des.
eft, and was one then; but as settlement
proceeds ralns increase, and where those |
blg crops arc now, few years ago Il was
~ dry as 1t In now In Coleman county |
Then, settlers had to so to Louisiana for
corn
NJ And does settlement produce
rRinf
~ Yes, siri and these people deserve
tne more because they are public benefac.
tors, Tho state has millions of acres,
capitalists, who bought from the state IN |
lSs2 under the 80 cents act, have mil, |
lions, and the railroads have more mil. |
mons, all OF which In now practicable
worthless except 40 far as it has a specu- |
Rtive value TO be realized by the perma- |
nent settlement OF those people and tho |
subsequent Increase OF the rain, And n |
they were To retreat aud form the border
further back, all this vast interest would |
he injured
NJ, How did these capitalists and rail. |
roads got this lands
L, Tho capitalists worked il mn At Ans. I
tin and got the legislature 10 put a down |
TO that and after they bought II thew rot
" raised sgalnl and now the so cent lands |
are worth ~, aud soon will be worth sB.
u me settlements can be maintained.
NJ Then, cannot these capitalists sun.
port THESE people who are doing so much !
z, Oh, they are all In Europe or at the
WaNl,ng places In The North The railroads
Sot hese lands ey gift from the state
gauges going around and over the nils
BOT them, too Some OF the roads. for
instance the International, rot po. ono
acres per nile, as is exempt from All ,ax.
alton Tor twenty-rve years after its com.
pletIon' An Of them got at least sixteen
thousand acres, Many OF them, as the
international, got the very best OF black
lands, worth from $40 10 $40 per acrc
now None Of Il ~ worth less than a..
NJ, What road DO you wish 20 shlp hy
20 those people, that you want Sl4O 10
pay freight for q oar.losdg
I. by the Gould system, OF course.
NJ Did they got lands, toog
X fesi they all got them, aud all have
mlllions now 10 sell In the West,
M. After all these lands given them and
al these exemptions from taxes and an
the Dement'S they are deriving from these
settlers, do they now ask sil0 freight per
sas,loeH o. grain 60 feed these starving
peoples Then would buy In Toxas and
ship by the Santa Re road.
z, They charge $50 from the neares,
corn, Ia Bell county, and that Is as hish'
NJ Did the SAINTS Fe road yet lands,