The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-06
Iut,rsst,nc Letter From Texas.

EDITOR tNlDS LIVES II Is ulNu1s
plea ,ure to tell anyt!;nE OF interest to my
people. but il il "A difficult matter ut this dis
tance TO Judge what wDwlh he of interest to
them Ii has been my custom to write
letter to the TINES i'll the fall, and it may
he that the Editor appreciates the little news
the letter contains. if no one else does; but / |
must confess | cannot say much this time
The buricn of this letter will be extract from |
a letter written by young North Carollninn |
living at Waco TO the StdtcScHte On. CO. land |
,norE He says: II have now been in this |
country some time, and have made it my |
business to look about and inform myself ia
to the condition of the working people
do not suppose there has ever been II State
that has had the lies told on it that Texas
has You meet this and that enthusiast back
there at home. who, if they do not tell you
| money can be made here without cxcrtion,
will mt least paint the advantages of this
country in such Glowing colors that the poor
| y,ung fellows arc dazzlcd and strike out for
| Texas: and are very sorry they did so. |
| say nothing about moncycd men, for, indeed
| if n man has capital to invest, here is good
| place for him. but | speak of the farmer, the
| day laborcr etc, VIII" earns his bread by the
| sweat of his brow and he will sweat too, if
| he comes t. this country.
poorer people than ever saw before i'll my
| life Go out on amy public road and you
| will meet on au average of every ID minutes.
| Il wagon lual of these miserable creatures,
| father mother and nearly II dozen children
| for children are the on v crop that don fail
| hcrc-al packed up on top of few bed
clothes. and such Idle articles: half of them
shaking with chilis, and all the color of
| North Carolina pumpkin. These people arc
| poor. Althcy have in the world is in the
wagon; and they look like the picture of de-
spair Ask him were he is going and the
| man will tell YOU he does not exactly know:
but his crop failed down yondcr and his
family was all sick and he just thought he
| would move somewhere else. Ask him if he
is a native. No lie came from Tennessee.
| North Carolina or some other ohl State.
| ''Ilow do you like the country
| "Don't like it all.
| "Whnt make you stay here?
Am not able to get away. This is all I've
| got and these horses can't take me far, nci-
I thcr will this old wagon hold up long.
lie will further tell YOU: Il was we'll
fixed back y"nlcr. getting along all right,
but everybody said Texas was the place TO
| make money. 50 | came.
The young man goes on TO tell how much
| dissatisfaction exists among these from the
older States who are financially in better cir
| cumStanccS: au, he cites instances of many
whc would prefer going back East if they
could only 20 back with ~ much as they
brought West.
Speaking oc the cotton crop here he says:
The average crop "f cotton i = half bale to
the acre when the season is passing fair.
Ii good. a bIlc. bat this happens only once
in twenty years. "torn.' he continues,
can he made in abundance: but from 10 to
| II cents per brishcl i all it will bring. |
have not vet seen Il farmer who Is not iii
| debt to 1T least the extent of one crop, AMI |
have been in good position Ia see and talk