Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-24
American jour- 81 Of Educat!or.

| American Jourr 81 OF Educstior.
] Accepting pressing and cordial invi
| tation to meet and sgain address the
| leading educators OF this empire of the
southwest. we found sll our expectation:
| and prophecies made on former yisi,
more than fulfilled.
The only wayto knoE Tex,s is to visit
! the state, to mingle with her generous,
| hospiteble. large hesrted people.
Its traditions and history, its struggles
| and triumphs, its majesty and magnitude,
] its wonderful Climate and exhsustless re
sources, its giant progress-its schools,
public and privsse its unpsrsll. led and M
approach. able landed endowments to per-
petuate sna perfect its system OF public
education, eliminating in great State
University located st Austin, the capital,
and the most beautiful city on the
continent except Washington City
its churches 2ud 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 fruits wonderful mineral
springs, with their curative properties,
and the sea and surf bathing st Galveston
snd all along the coast-lts latent posi-
bilitIes, marvellous growth and indescrio-
sble future.
Where is the frame large enough to
hold these plctureS, or the pen or pencil
brilliant or bold enough to adeq uatcly set
them forth?
It cannot be done. That mister hand
or brain has not yet been fashioned or
taken shspe, that can properly illustrate
and elaborate the extent and wealth and
power of this Enpirel
/ Texas must now drop Its old tradition
Of 'the L me Star"
Texas is the rising star, marching with
giant strides to take the d rst place in the
galaxy of ststes.
Like 8 magnet, Texas Is drawing the
& over aud bloom and beauty and culture
Of the continent To herse!f-draWing capi-
tel and enterprise, drawing mind and
muscle sud organizing ability Of the high
est quality.
Toere is room enough. The climate Is
perfect. Intelligent, law abiding, indus
trious people, no matter from whence
| they come, or what their opinions may be
politically, socially or religiously, are
are most cordially welcomed.
We visited Fort Worth, Dallas, Mar-
| shall, Palestine. Huntsville, Houston
Galveston, Austio, San Antonio aud sew.
eral other important points. We min
gled freely with the people, sGt
during all this TINA we saw nC
disturbances snd heard OF none witt
one single exception, and thu
WAS at Galveston, where young mar
had taken aboard too much whisky snC
made fool OF himself, IS men generally
| do under such circumstances, whether il
Galveston, Tex, or in Boston, Mass
Whisky and manhood are always at wa
| with each other, whenever and wherev e.
| they come in contact.
| Land can yet be bough. very low il
Texas, aud now is the time to secure 1t
| or it can be rented on shares if you pre-
| fer, and every thing You need, but : house
and pluck, energy and capacity TO msnage
| will be furnished, and you share equal!
in the profit be il more or less, whethe
| you raise cotton or sheep or horses o.
corn or cattle.
| Good schools sre being established anC
are We'll pstronized all over the state
Churches are being erected, snd new line!
| Of railroads are being built and pushed OF
| TO speedy completion, with an abundance
Of esp!tal--crossing and recrossing eacl
other at short intervals in all directions
thus bringing TO the doors Of all the peo-
pie the products of sll lands srd zones
and chimes, and taking to all the market
CT the world again whatever the peopit
have 10 sell.
| We had supposed we knew, from 1
| careful and somewhat extended study O
the p,and from large correspondence
something about Texas.
| We confess We were mistaken.
We repeat, the only way to know Tex
as is to visit the state, and just now TIT
Missouri Pacific and the lion Mountain
Railroad lines are furnishing the mos
complete and extended facilities for dOiu!
This, with their cheap and long time tx
cursion tickets.
We never net more Intelligent cirCl
of ladies and gentlemen than at For
Worth, Dallas, Galveston, Huntsville
Austin, San Antonio and other cities.
We never saw people more devoted an
more determined TO build up goo(
schools, good churches, good homes an
good society than these ladies and gentle
, men with whom we came In contact a
the cities above mentioned.
You could easily put the whole popula
ton c; the United States, so 900, geo PEG
pie, into Ttx4s, and then it would not o
so densely populated as Massachusetts
and the religious tervor and heroic deed
OF Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill, glo
rious IS they were, pale IN the light C
: the devotion Of the Franciscan Fathers c
the mission OF Ssn Antonio, and IN
! Texas martyrs VIC died for liberty at tn
"Alemo."
: Inspired by these lofty idess the pres
. of the state hs2 become leader full
! alive 10 the wants snd demands OF tni
intelligent and growing constituency
; itself the defender Of liberty, the supper
! of law and order, and by virtue OF thi
augmenting aud extending its OF
power.
Secure in pesce, happiness and pro:
perity, with suca leaders, s great peopl
/ follow, illuminating the century Wit
, every virtue as they pass on and up int
history. J. B. MERwIN.