The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-03-21
TEXAS IMMIGRATION

teutiou or import OF which is ditiicult
to un iorstand. The spirit of the meet
Ing seems to nave b. n opposed to
the cmigrat on board aud is work
and yet tho resolutions are 'l no.t the
90 .nterpart of tle re- o.u )n- adopt
cd by tuc Dala- convention. aud the
position taken hy the executive COM
miltet. la the wh,l six resolutions
there Ia only one sent .nca at variance
with the : s'ate committee OF .m,gra-
tion or the men who are most active
in securing 1t, and that is a criticism
of tao course pursued by the com
mittec to secure the emigration. Both
the emigration committee, aud the
gentlemen oi the West meeting agree
that migration is wanted, they hoth
agree as to the kind want ut, but the
West mccliIg mixes the t) lowing
criticism: We believe that the means
now being used TO induce imm gra-
tion will nd t, bring cl .ss of pee
pie among Us VINO will not prove
desirable citlzen-, therefore we enter
our earnest protest against such meas
ures.'
In This we think gross injustice is
done the staje immigration board, lst
we think our iriends AZ Vast spoke
before fully nquiring what were
he means now beng uled to induce
immigration. II they had stopped to
inquire They would have found that
Just such resolutions rs they uassed
axe the exact methods being used 10y
the committee, i. c. making I'm JWn 10
the world tlatTeXas cA attended hearty
welcome to the Industrious OF all
| climes and that 1t had tho resources
| to bless with wealth and plenty, al
who have the industry and tariff to ac-
| quirc it, but that there is no room
here for the idle and vicious. our
west fri .nds dencunce advertising, and
yet we will guarantee that four-iiths
OF them were brought TO Texas by
some method of advertising; at laast
that they did not come by the rou e
suggested by the West meeting,
the marriage of the young
men and women OF Texas.
There is no onc now proposing to
pay the WY of any pAuper to Texas
There are no boomers VINO can pos.
sibly be Interested in bringing any
body to Texas who has not the mouey
to inv, st in cur lana, timber or miu-
erals or who has not the experience
to develop our resources. Texas is
rich in unsettled land and undeYcl )pod
resources There is not real estate
or corporation boomer who can pos
sbly be benefited hypluper immigre-
uon.,l they boom Texas it is ID make
money, and money Is made only out
of those with the capitai to buy land
or the experience to develop ma'eri a
resources. Prof. Cook said people
are III lde to believe Texas had great
t untouched domain where III lions Of
= acres could be had for the asking Sc
: she has and he cannot deny it,there are
25,00O 600 acres out OF which the young
men to whom Mr.. Jameson allud
= ed can pick their forty acres of md a
an expense OF s. year for the entire
tract, and the young Texan who can
y not get HIM home at that pric,
> should, with the red man be crowded
out of the way. There is much cheal
:, knownothlng cl,p-tr6p about thi
thing. Texas has from the first set
? tlement by Austin been an immigra
ton state. She owes her settlement
to it, she owes her deliverance from
the Mexican yoke to the Immigrant
they were the men who filled the pos
\ OF the Alamo, died at Goliad an
e won the victory at san Jacinto The
J. foua ht our Indian wars, bull. ou
- railroads and are now coming to tn
Is state to bu our factories and dt
velop our untouched mines of veal Il
n While The EXAMINER goes this f.
~ its editor is q native of Texas Will
we will guarantee that four-dtths
n the West meeting We're immigrant
is Oar good neighbors at West are ju
T. simply mistaken in the character
work being done and the imm gran
coming to Texas No paupers ha'
.o their passage paid, the work of Il
IA Il IL executive committee is in cNa