Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-27
TEXAS REVISITED.
The 0sIy Way 10 Kuow Texas Is TO
YisL. the State. and NiHgie With
Her Generous People.
Palestine, Huntsviilcp RoustoD, Gal
weston, Austin ard San antonio.
American Journal of Education.

American Journal OF Education.
Accepting pressing and cordial invi- !
tation to meet and again address the |
leading educators OF this empire OF the |
southwest, we found ell our expectations |
and prophecies made on e former visit |
more than fulfilled.
The only way to kno Texas Is TO visit |
the state, to mingle with her generous, |
hospitable. large hearted people.
It's traditions and history, its struggles |
and triumphs, its majesty and magnitude, |
It's wonderful climate and exhaustless re |
sources, its giant progress-its schools, |
| public and private its unparalleled and I'M |
approachaole landed endowments TO per-
! petuate and perfect its system OF public |
education, eliminating In great State |
| University located st Austin, the capital,
/ md the most beautiful Gig on the
continent except Washington City
its churches and asylums-its rail
roads and rivers-its seaport and
inland cities-its farms and ranches-its
cattle, sheep and horses-its cotton and
corn and fruit-its wonderful mineral
springs, with their curative properties,
and the sea and surf bathing at Galveston
and all along the coast-its latent posi-
bilitles, marvellous growth snd indescrio-
able future.
Where is the frame large enough to
hold these pictures, or the pen Or pencil
brilliant or bold enough 10 adequately get
them forth?
1t csunot be done. That master hand
or brain has not yet been fashioned or
taken shape, that can properly illustrate
and elaborate the extent and wealth and
power Of this Empire!
/ Texas must now drop its old tradition
Of "the Lone Star"
Texas is the rising star, marching with
giant strides to take the :st place in the
galaxy Of states.
Like magnet, Texas is drawing the
flower and bloom and beauty and eult4fe
of the continent to herseiE-draT wing csPi.
al and enterprise, drawing mind and,
muscle and organizing ability OF the highs
est quality.
perfect. Intelligent, la abiding, indus
ftEious people, no matter from whence
they come, or Whist their opinions may be
] politically, socially Or religiously, are
are most cordially welcomed.
We visited Fort Worth, Dallas, Mar
shall, Palestine, Huntsville, Houston,
Galveston, Austin, San Antonio and sew
al essa other important points. We min
Tiled freely with Hhe people, and
during ell this tina we saw nc
- disturbances and heard of none with
lone single exception, and thai
was ct Galveston, whsTe young mel
had taken aboard too much whisky anc
made fool Of himself, as men generally
DO under such circumstances, whether ii
Gslseston, Tex, or in Boston, Mass
whisky and manhood ere always OF wa
ps55sh each other, Whenever and Whereve
,Sfey come in contact.
rs I1pd can yet be bought very low il
ID Texas, and now is the time TO secure it
= or i. can be rented on shares il you pre-
fer, and everything you need, but house
ard pluck, energy and capacity 10 manage
will be furnished, and you share equal
in the profit be it more or less. whethe
you raise cotton or sheep or horses o
corn or cattle.
Good schools are being established an
are well patroniZed all over the state
Churches are being erected,a and new line
of railroads are being built s1d pushed o.
to speedy completion, with an abundsnc
of cspitsl-crossing and recrossing eac
other at short intervals in all directions
thus bringing 10 the doors Of sll the PEG
pie the products o. sill lands and zone
and chimes, snd taking to all the market
of the world sgain whatever the peopl
have to cell.
We had supposed we knew, from
I careful and somewhat extended study G
J the map, and from large correspondence
something about Texas.
We confess we were mistaken.
e. We repeat, the only way 30 know Tex
as is to visit the state, and Just now tn
G Missouri Pacific and the Iron MoIntai
u, Railroad lines are furnishing the mos
y complete and extended facilities for dom
~ his, with their cheap snd long time eS
We cursion tickets.
We never met more intelligent circl
Of ladies ard gentlemen than at For
Worth, Dallas, Galveston, Huntsville
10 Austin, San Antonio and other cities.
ed We never SAW people more devoted an
PIE PIE more determined 10 build up goo
,Tk schools. good churches, good homes an
. good society than these ladies' sna gentIe
! men with whom We came IN contact
s. The cities shove mentioned.
s@ssasNfsc could easily put the whole popula
~ tor of the Uuited States, so. 000,0O pee
e ple, into Texas, and then it would rot
s. 20 densely populated az Massschusett:
and the relieious fervoT sud heroic deed
Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill, gle
" Sious as they were, pale in the light
- ne devotion OF the franciscan Fathers
TIA mission of San Antonio, and t1
- TeSss martyrs 3Eho died for liberty st tn
AZ ''AlaUesss,sssss<ggs
~, Inspired Sy these lofty idess the pre-:
en- of the state has become leader full
ip; alive 20 the wants and demands OF N
at intelligent apd growing constituency
itself the defender of liberty, the suppo
of law and order, and by virtue OF tn
a. sugmenttDg and extending its on
ant ooWsr
ne N, SECURE in .sesce, hsppiness ssad pro
on perity, wish such leaders, gsest Peep
led follow, ilIumiasfing the csatsTY wi
"A, a, every virtue ss they psss onsnd up in
ou' history. / &R .MEgwIN.
no ---7 - 49, s,
"Men must work. and wousaBsep,
So 1utS 4eEorldswsy"
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