Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-10
HOW TO DO IT.
Ten Thousand Dollars Spent in Adver-
Using Texas in the North and East.
How 1t VIII Accomplish More Than a State
Fair-Why the Tide of immigration
Was Turned Westward.
ENNIS, Tex. July S, 1889.
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ENNIS, Tex, July S, 1889.
To the Gazette.
have read with interest the article in
Sundays GAZETTE, ''Texas situa-
ton. -
In the year 1888 visited the LOUIS
vile exposition to advertise Texas, and
wasted two months time and several
hundred dollars to learn that Jay Gould
& Co. controlled the immigration bust
ness to Texas.
In this wise it seems that all roads
leading from the East to the West or
South had been in the habit Of paying
agents handsome comission on all tick
cts sold over their lines, and as long as
this was the rule, and the commissions
about the same over the Southern as over
the Western roads, the agent allowed
the immigrant and tourist TO take his
choice.
But this arrangement did not
suit Mr.. Gould or some
of his avaricious employees
and so they cut off agents commissions
from all tickets sold over their roads
leading South and to Texas, while the
owners or managers of the roads leading
West continued the commissions, and so
it became matter of dollars and cents
in the agents pocket whether the immi-
grafton came South or went West, and
the tide was set westward and yet con-
tinues. Then again some mutton headed
railroad officials got up large lot of
engravings of costly courthouses
and jails built in the North
Texas counties, and had them put
in beautiful frames and hung on the
walls of the waiting rooms in the cities of
the North and East. And the immi-
grant agents for the West and their roads
would take their walking sticks and
point out to the immigrant the fine court
houses and jails they had down in Texas,
and comment O. the lawlessness of the
Texas people and the need of costly jails
and court houses. And since the de-
feat of the prohibition amendment the
Western agents have another good argu-
ment against Texas and Texas people. and
they use it for all it is worth,
as they do every murder and crime re-
ported as committed in Texas.
1 had a weekly paper from Western
Kansas-poor, drouthy Western Kansas
last week and it had nearly two col
umns of Texas tragedies. One was the
Terry Gibson affair at Wharton, all in
spread eagle, sensational style, telling
of the demand by the sheriff for state
troops, etc.
No doubt the papers in the Northwest
have to keep this up to prevent an eX-
odus to Texas, while some of them may
be aping our great Texas dailies. What
we Texans want is to counterfeit
that work going on against us North East
and West by sending some of our best
talking and working men to these cities,
when the immigrant can be talked to in
person, and let them tell of the schools
and churches, the mills and factories of
the state of Texas, tell of the iron ores.
the pipe clays, the marble queries, the
black rolling prairies, etc.. and prove
the pudding with samples, pictures and
engrayings. Tell and convince the i'm
migrant of the vastness of Texas territory
and that as compared with the area
of any part of these United States
there are less murders, Tobberies, ETC.,
to the population than most anywhere in
the world.
A perpetual baby Texas exposition in
New York, Boston, Chicago, st. Louis
and other cities, with the right man in
charge to show it up, will accomplish
more in one year for our state than any
uNt SIdIo 4dlIS HSlO III 1SAdo. DOAlSN0
$40, ZOO properly used in and around five
large cities East and North to show Texas
and her products VIII bring more results
in increased immigration than 500, 600
spent in state fairs.
And let the fairs in the state be kept
going, as they are the greater stimulant
to our Texas people to make them inn
prove their stock and develop their
farms. TEXAS BOOMER.