Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-21
GOING TOO FAST.
No Need of Settling Texas in Rush.
Time Enough When Other States
are Full.
Danger of Crowding Longhorns and Children
Into Deep WateF-Let's Wait for the Moss
to Grow on Our Backs.
'he Brownsyille Cosmopolitan saws.

( The Brownsville Cosmopolitan says:
I SThe state immigration bureau of Texas has
been closed for want of funds to keep it running.
From the first the counties have supported it
coldly and this year but three counties have sent
III $50 EACH or $50 in all. So they have shut her
| up. The fact is that Texans know that the state
can secure all the immigration that she wants,
| and that of the very best, without any vaunting
on the outside from bureaus, etc.
AUSTIN, TEX, July 10, 1889.
To the Gazette
The Cosmopolitan as right If people
want to come to Texas they will come
any way. The fact is we have people
enough in Texas now. If we should by
any means cause crush of people and
capital to come TO Texas, what would be
the result? Why, our children and their
children would, in the language of ex-
Governor Ireland, ''be crowded into the
sea, - and now that we are about to
have deep water, they might get wet if
not drowned. Let US look to the future
and provide for our children or rather
guard well their interest And again >
Dear GAZETTE, just stop the press mo-
ment and think of what would become of
us Texans who are to-day, and have
been for years past, getting from - to Is
per cent. for the use of our money.
Why, if we should have big crush of
immigration to Texas these poor
"TeXans' and others would have to be
satisfied with per cent for their money.
And again, cheap money would finally
lead to manufacturing and opening up
our coal and iron mines, also the granite
and rock quarres, and all that would
cause a great demand for labor (skilled
and common) all of which would make
cities where we now have towns, and
points that are now "side tracks,
would grow to be towns. 1t makes one
tired to think of where this "'lmmigra-
ton agitation will end If we don It
stop it it will ''drive us into the sea - to
say nothing of our children. Yes, dear
GAZETTE, some of us are cramped'
for room now. Ride out of Fort Worth
in any direction and you will see one
poor man (''land poor on an average
to every 5000 acres of land. The same
will apply to Gainesville, Henrietta,
Wichita Falls, Abilene, Colorado City,
SWeetwater, San Antonio and many
other towns and cities too numerous to
mention. Let us have elbow room
if you please. Give us the good old days
gone by, when one man could have q
county for himself and his ''long horns.
Speaking of the "poOr long horn, yous
Will drive and compel him to ''rOost'' on
top of the mountains of New or Old
Mexico with your immigration racket. -
True, there are more cattle in the old
settled counties of the state than there
saFai IN the new and unorganiZed counties,
but they are those new breeds, g Short
horns, - Jerseys, -" HerefoTds, - etc.
What are they as compared to our "old
time long horn rustler? We
Roc hn
"long horn'' will be like
the buffalo shelved with other ancient
history.
"Stop little'' and give the man
that is getting u and Is per cent. for
money and the ''poor man with five
to twenty thousand acres of land a
chance to make "feY more good
loans' and add Ga few more acres to
the range'' or have the ''use of the |
land adjoining for few more years. %
If Kansas, Nebraska and California |
want emigration and capital let them |
work for it. Their troubles are moth
ing to us. If they wish to ''fool'
their money away in buying printed |
matter, ETC., let them do SO, |
they may have to. We don't, |
and when all other states and terri
tories are settled the people |
Will nave TO come TO IeXaS. we that |
are here now and have made Texas what |
it is to-day may not be here then, but our
children and their children will
A friend at my side while 1 write sug-
gests that "'the best way to provide for
your children - Is to ''protect your in
terest by assisting in the development
and settlement of Texas now. - This
may do to preach, but it won It do to
practice We are going fast enough to
suit this "MoSsBACK. -