Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-13
INDIGNATION NETTING.

Citissns Of Sherman Protect sgsiDst Gross
Errors h. the STATE immigration Map.
Special 70 the Gazette.
SHERMAN, TEX Msy 12.-In response
to call published in the evening papers
yesterday by A. Falton, pres don't Of the
Sherman Improvement Association, which
association Is composed of the leading
capitalists Of the city, mass meeting If
the members Of the association and 9
large concoarse of other citizens WAS
held at the court house last night for t1e
purpose Of protesting against fraudul.nt
features and gross errors con
sained in the map Of Texas which
is being issued by the executive commit
tee OF the State Immigration Association.
Judge A. C. Turner WAS elected TO p e.
SIDE over the meeting, and Msjor j. b.
Dlls to act as secretary. After the
chairman stated the object OF the meet
log, the recent correspondence between
J. +. Evans, president Of the GrsysoD
county immigration board, ana F. b.
Cniltcn, secretary of tae state immigrs-
ton < ecutive committee, regarding the
defects in the map, WAS read, and
several speeches were INSIDE befvre
the meeting by leading citlz ps, de-
noupcipg in strong terms the
parties who devised the map and pre-
pared statistical reports.
A committee on reso utiops composed
oi Msror j. P. Gsren, p. Harrison and
j T. Evans WAS appointed to draft reso-
lu.lous expressing the sense OF the
meeting and reported tb g following. which
were unanimously adopted:
Resolved l. That while we have been
and are in sympathy with the state immi-
grafton move, and have lent our symps-
thy ard Il lsncial aid to the state bureau
Of immigration, but We feel impelled to
denounce the great wrong that is about
to De perpetrated on our Own city in COM
mon III all others in the state, BY the
circulation Ct mop that purportirg TO be
correct ano official, is gotten up In the
special interest Of one town In the state.
That the giving TO all otherc ties and
towns in Texas, their full number Of
| railroads in X stence and in operation
does not justify or palate the fraud per
petrated oy giving any one town roads
that bzve DO existence or any guarantee
that III ever will De built, as has been
done win five lines that hsvo been &C
credited to the town Of Denison on the
said map.
That we further denounce the wrong
Del strsteh ON many sections OF the sta'e
by cullipg United Safes Signal Service
reports as hes been done in toe table fur
nished with ssid map, selecting from
government reports dates so as TO show
certain favored locsliiss as having 3
much greater average rain fall than an
aonsst nowing entities III m to, and Sc
iectiug for other localities ffomyears tnet
will show for them the lowest possibl.
average and much lower tlan the signal
sc vice reports by an honest showing
would prove TO be their average r lin is:i
4. That other tables purporiing TO give
and comparing lax rates OF sou hern
states, and in which the rate Ct taxation
for Texas Is shown to be double wn.t II
IL, proves gross negligence on the part Of
parties Charged win the preparation
Of said table, and proves them uLtlt for
the trust.
5. That since A. R Collins Of Denison,
| and s member OF the executive board
from the E ghteenth Senatorial district,
repre- sents that he was specially commits
stoned by The state executive board to
contract for printing OF SAID state map,
and that he IL responsible In person for
the insertion Of the said fraudulent roads,
that we recommend to the executive
board that they ri CT the SO msls and
see that they are destroyed, and that the y
see that all msps circulated end all sta
llsticsl il formation given out be go PEE
pared IS 10 do equal justice to all SEC
Il, ms Of the state.
On motion Captsin o. T. Lyon, J. P.
Harrison aud G 3. Dorchester were sp-
pointed 5 committee to furnish copy Of
the reso utions to the State Immigration
IaAssUcianon watch meets st Austin On
| Tuesday next, May Is, and that said com
mittee wait On the executive committee
and request that the map be properly Cor
ftcred.
On motion the daily newspapers OF
Sherman and those throughout the state
were requested % publish the foregoing
resolutions.
Adjourned.