Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-23
IMMIGRATION.
an Appeal for the Support Of the State
Organization for Another Year.
A Central Office as Necessary as State De
partment to Run Our State Government.
Texas Must Act.

AUSTIN, Tx, Jan. % The follow
ing circular win be sent out to every
county Judge and immigration commit
tee in Texas:
STATE IAIdIGRATIoN BUREAU OF TEXAS.
All that Texas has been made is the result of
immigration. All that Texas hopes to become
must result from immigration. Prices OF grain,
sales of land, progress and prosperity. are de-
pendent on immigration. What will the twenty
first legislature do to promote immigration?-
Fort Worth GAZETTE.
To the Secretary Of immigration, or County
Judge County. Tex:
DEAR sIR-You are aware to what
magnitude the immigration movement
has risen Reports come from every
section of Texas telling Of the great bene-
fits received from the past years work,
and little dreaming of what the future
has yet in store for every locality that
has been active.
The great immigration wave has struck
every portion of the South. Heretofore
Texas has had an advantage, but now
her progress will depend upon active,
energetic, well directed work, because
she has to meet every state of the South
as an active competitor in the field.
Texas has remarkable resources and
that is now being made for development
by so many worthy competitors, it is
doubly necessary that all her
advantages be told over and over,
and her inducements to investors
and immigrants be shown up
and kept fresh before the world. In all
the immigration work during the
past year, not pauper immigrant has
come to Texas, and, so far as we know,
not an Objectionable citizen. Many OF
the Southern states have regularly
equipped bureaus of immigration kept
mp by state appropriation, and other
states will make appropriations for like
bureaus during the present year. The
state Of Texas is handicapped through
the provisions of an unfortunate consti-
tuition, moulded in bygone ages, that ex-
presses itself as opposed to progress and
development, an instrument wherein the
spirit of 'sTexans for Texans predOmi-
mates to that extent that it is clearly
evinced that its makers would be liable
TO q severe case of hydrophobia wereIthey
TO be brought in contact with the whir Of
spindles, the sight of a mandatory,
the scream of a railroad whistle, the
rumble of an immigrant train, or the
presence of fence to i'm
pede the progress of a ''Texas long
horn'' from Austin to FL Paso;
and, therefore, it is, that through
the provisions of the aforesaid relic of
seeming antiquity, the present legislature
VIII be unable to give relief, unless they
awake to the necessity of a constitutional
convention, ana 1t behooves the people Of
the Lone Star state, in the face of
this emergency, to provide, through their
own efforts, the proper means to keep the
states best interests going until some ad-
equate relief can be obtained 1t is
Well-known fact that the state immigra-
tion bureau has had a hard struggle dur
ing the past year, and it is also known
that its influence and work has so spread
as to now include every state and terri
tory in the South in the great work, and
receive the hearty endorsement of the
highest and wiseSt in the land. Only
about one-third Of the amount promised
the bureau last year was ever paid into
its treasury, and vet five times the whole
amount promised was spent for the cause.
Up 10 the present time there has been no
provision made for the sup
port of the state organization,
though its work and labors in
crease every day. 1t is true that l am
general manager of the Southern bureau,
and have an extended field of labor, but
] cannot turn a deaf ear to the many ap-
peals ''nOt to give up the state work. -
As q Texan, with heart and interest here,
it is not strange that l should, in re-
Spouse TO much advice and many eXhor-
tatiOns, make another attempt to place
the state bureau on a solid basis for an
other year s work; therefore l make to
all the counties in the state the following
proposition which has been submitted to
them this day through their local immi-
grafton committees or their county judge,
and there is not merchant, banker,
LAWYER or real estate man in a single
town in Texas that has enterprise or pub
lie spirit that would not benefit himself
individually more than the amount asked
several times over during the
year. If you call meeting
in your county and elect a chair
man and a secretary, and send their
names TO this Office, with $50 cash, your
county will be enrolled and your interests
watched during the year 1899. While
this amount seems small, yet you must
remember that we have many interests,
including railroads, etc, that are inter-
ested in advertising and settling up
Texas, and while it requires a great deal
of money TO run this office, still there are
other sources from which revenues are
derived My present plan to interest and |
advertise every county is, think, a bet
ter one than the district plan. You can
get your advertising matter, insert your
special features and wants, and actually
count the number and specify the class |
you wish to secure. Your matter as fur !
nished viii be distributed everywhere,
besides being placed in branch offices, !
where it viii tell. In addition to this,
your organization, names of officers, as |
well as your county statistics, will be |
placed on back of maps and included IN |
matter gotten up by this office and the |
railroads, and your interests watched as
TO the matter of best obtainable trans |
portation for immigrants, investors, !
prospectors, etc.
1t is not thought likely that the state |
bureau would dissolve or quit business
even ii counties did not respond as re-
quested, but it is well demonstrated !
fact, as shown by the past year 5 work, |
that no county has been materially bene- |
fitted that did not contribute, while num- !
bers that did have received immense ben |
ehtS, and some sections that were very !
active have doubled their population and |
capital. In this progressive age, when so
many efforts are made for individual and /
sectional benefit, nearly all advertising |
matter aud every enterprise is looked /
upon with diStrust, and the masses do