Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-02
Texas immigration


To the Editor of the Gazette.
Your writer has been for the last two
dsys acting in connection with Others IS
the servant Of the people OF Fort Worth
and TarTanE county soliciting subscrip-
tions to the immigration fund. Oar pro-
gress has been slow, but enough has been
done to indicate grand success in the
end. ANY work we'll commenced is more
than half finished Twenty-Five years
ago, when the earnings of the great
Missouri Pacific Railroad were less than
our Rio Grande Railroad is to-day, more
than h6lt the work of building that great
road had been done, because the great
enterprise had been successfully started.
The corner stone OF the great work OF de-
veloping the state OF Texas WIS laid by
the wise men, sEd those who inspired
them to meet at Dallas IN convention,
and ask the cooperation of our
Texas railroads. That CO operation
was promptly and cheerfully given,
and then went up the cry from some en-
thusiastic friends, 1t Is done! It is done
This was great mistake, it is not done.
The work has Just commenced. Brick on
brick and stone on stone, now must be
carefully placed in cement, and piled
each on the other, until the huge work
looms sloft and attracts the admiring
gaze of the world. The solicitors have
gotten a few black eyes, but are still on
their feet rustling and writing down
names, with figures opposite to the names.
One man told US he was opposed to immi-
grafton. That if more muscle was
brought to Texas, it would reduce the de-
mand for the muscle already here; that il
more capital was brought to Texas, it
would reduce the earnings of the capital
here; that if more brains were induced TO
come to Texas, the brains we already had
here would be thrown upon the market,
and slaughtered as q surplus commodity.
argument, and we walked slong, sadly
contemplating the opposition that was
made to the Introduction of the horse
collar.
One man told US that he thought it was
good thing, and the real estate agents
should subscribe for the whole demand.
This could not be answered. Another
man said it was good thing, but he
thought the hotel keepers and the livery
stable men should make the entire sub
scription, that they would receive the
benefit. Another man told US he WAS op-
posed to bringing tramps and paupers
into the country, that they would have to
be fed, and if we did not give them GOOD,
they would steal it. Again, we saw the
minute hand on the town clock was NOV
ing, and were sdmonished that life was
too short to answer these arguments.
But we met one man who WIS q
lightning striker; he said: Come
back aud see him in two days;
he wanted to think the matter over, and
see il some good reason would not occur
to him for not making subscription; he
said money IVES hard TO get hold of and
very easy to get rid of. We are confident
OF good subscription from the last per-
son.
One man said he was going away, would
not live in such muddy country as this,
and We referred him to the County court
and the sand hills of California. But these
were exceptions; the most of cur people
that have means looked over the sub
scribers; compared their means with
others, wrote their names down, and put
the figures opposite.
Mr.. Editor, what harm would it do Us
in Texas If 10000 farmers could be in
duced to come to Texas from Missouri,
Illinois, etc., and raise mules. The mules
at weaving time would bring $40 to $50 g
head, and cost no more to raise than q
cali which sells Tor So, on account u o.