Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-26

oKLAUNION, TEX, July p. lssa.
To the Gazette.
l have noticed with interests THE Ca
zETTE s work in trying to arouse in
terest in Texas immigration. Il o~,-
took two months trial of the Tevs.
immigration society TO convince me t5.-
in our colony system we had better ana
far more practical immigration society
than the state had naugurated. ami r
offer no more proof of it than the results
of Its work IN those places that reaI.,.F
its benefits, and the fact that we r-s
going ahead OF n gTander scale than
ever, Notwithstanding the cry OF .sh,r---
bug, ''crank - fraud - af.
that come from the nqssaa..,
that have neither the ability ~
plan nor the energy 20 exeau-,
Our colony movement is srmpIyu COM
mon sense Immigration society, a-r Is
as good for one locality rs auo-na-
1t consists OF furnishing information p,
the stranger just as if he were one rf
our family, III getting cheap rates for
him to come to US, and when De comes
10 give him information that he r.r
act inteliigently, although q STRANGE in
q strange land; or in other words f. %
conducted in the interest of the home
seeker instead OF the hOme-seIIer. ans
that is the secret Of success. Wer.rf
in our early struggles to charge ona.f-
mission fee to keep it alive and be able
to 90 the work necesSarv for
success. We have not or.-
stopped the admission fee. Init
have built fine large Immigrant hr,-a
for the free use of the settler as h. rr-
rives, and the whole expense is made agt
of the rapid increase of the value of urr
land. Not ours alone DO we benefit rr.
every one who owns a foot of land I'm orr
county. We realize the profits ON r-.I
acres. The millions raise the value with
ours without care or expense TO Them
selves, the railroads get the business free
and the wholesale center (FOrt WORTH
gets all OF our business without expense
(clear profit. In our early struggle.
with poverty staring us. in the face NJ
every step, I satisfied myself of one
thing, and that is, that public spirited
men that work for the public for nothing
are ''cranks - ard if calling them crauks-
dOesn t shame them into hiding they
are frauds III the eye of the mCssLacE.
So, fer the last six months we have
started our movement on a practical
business footing, and find it easy sail
ing. We are now ready to commence
the settlement Of the Indian territory
between Red river and Wichita mount
ans and III unison with the settler, IN
Oklahoma work for the opening of the
Oklahoma territory, but settle the caur-
try under the existing law ''N0w. 80
what effect Will that move have on CLAY,
Wichita and Wilbarger counties? Just
the same as settling Greer did for Yer
non and WHbarger county. The border
counties VIII get the business, the Fort
Worth and Denver railroad viii
get the travel, and Fort
Worth and Dallas viii have opened
to them q country that viii pour
more business into their towns than the
combined Panhandle country, and 1t VIII
come from I60-ucre homestead settlers.
while the wealthy man from the North
will settle in the border county OF at the
wholesale center. Have we the right 90
settle that country now? Oh, YES. hold
the proof from the proper authority and
can produce it in writing. Texas opposed
the opening Of Oklahoma from purely
selfish motives. ''We got il ANYHOW, -
and over one thousand families were
crowded out Of homes and went back
North. They would have been splendid,
citizens of Texas to-day had
it not been for prejudice arising from
that opposition. If you doubt his
ask the agents Of the Fort
Worth and Denver railroad vino
went to Oklahoma in the creat
race on April %, hoping 70 bring the
overflow of settlers on to Texas. Tint
being The case, and business for Fort
Worth the object in view by TIE ia
zETTE, it is not unreasonable for us tJ
hope that THE GAZETTE and the papers
Of the border counties viii join i'm one
united effort with the settlers OF Okla
IOma to settle the KiOwa and COmaEchs
country. If so it will be easy sailing,
ana give HaTdeman, WiIbarger, Wichita
ma Clay q boom that will be interesting.
viii they oppose it? Then ''we'll get
t. just as we did Greer and Oklahoma,
and those that oppose it will get left, Just
Is before, and our benefits in a business
way viii go to our friends. Enlisted in
his movement are men that Fort
Worth ranks among her first class.
There are others IL Oklahoma that
stand first class in their localities.
t was to carry out this plan successfully
rom the Texas side and in her interest
hat Oklahoma was founded, and now
hat the time for action has arrived what
$ the feeling OF Fort Worth and TIE Ca
.ETTE towards US? What Of Henrietta,
Wichita Falls and Iowa Park Shall we
DIN hands, heads and interests in one
united pull combined with the Oklahoma
ettlers in the above movement? or,
hall OklauniOn alone be the only cnGm-
ZION of a just cause from the Texas slle
f Oklahoma? If so, the struggle viii
,e harder and the victory greater. Shall
Ve unite and make it common cause
With mutual benefits? or, shall OkIaUuluu
ego it alone?'' Consider the situation
arefuIly, and then if you are in favor Of
on general principles the details can be
at a meeting called for the pu--
,ose. BUCKsKIN JOE.
Rain at CarrCIItOn.