Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
OUR REPUTATION.
1t is Not Good Among the People of the
North-There is.N0 Denying Facts.
We Want to Send Men North to Enlighten the
Yankees and Show Them What They
Could Do in Texas.
DEN1soS, TEX, July u, 1883.
To the Gazette

DEN1soE, TEX, July21, 1883.
To the Gazette.
The effort being made by THE GAZETTE
in behalf of immigration for Northwest
Texas is attracting good deal of atten-
ton in this section. To say that our
people Ga majority Of them) second the
motion is putting it mild. That so4z%
thing in the way of organization s1oufd
be effected is admitted on all sides.
AS one of our eminent citizens truth
fully remarked to the writer to-day /,
"Our drouth of two years ago was thor
Oughly advertised throughout the United
States and Europe, and here we have had
as good crops as ever were raised in
any country on earth for the
past two years, and no one
outside of those who live
in Texas seems to know anything of it. -
''Fact Is, - continued the speaker,
'peOple in the old-states are in perfect
ignorance of Texas, her resources aEn
the inducements our state offers to tfie
home seeker and capitalist. ;"
"Who is to blame for this state of
affairs?'' I asked.
''As to that - he replied, "it makes
but little difference. What we are most
interested in is what are we going TO do
to enlighten the people on Texas, and to
secure the confidence of the people who
are looking to the west for new homes?
In my judgment, - continued the promi-
'nent citizen, call that is necessary
to start the tide of immigration
and a good share of the surplus
capital of the old states to Texas, is for
the people of Texas to go to work and do
as people in other new states have done.
Work and money combined viii turn the
tide our way and nothing else will. -
How, or in what way would you pro-
pose to work, inquired.
"Why, advertise, advertise. Let the
people know there is such state as Texas
and that you want them to come and join
you and share in the profits of the deYel-
Opment of the state. Yes, printers ink
is the thing that will do the business if
it is properly used and placed III the hands
of the people. l mean by printers ink
that we should not only have printed
pamphlets, maps and circulars giving in
formation of the different COMMITTEES in
Guided in our organization, but we
should have our territory written up in
as many Of the leading papers published
in the old states as our means will admit
Of. If you want TO reach the people,
continued the DenisOnite, effectively
and promptly use the press. The lead
ing weekly papers n my opinion are the
best to reach the farmers and the lead
ing dailies, the business men and
manufactOrs. -
A gentleman VINO lives in Sherman
came up at this moment and being ae-
quainted with the writer and the Deni-
last remark made by the
P. c. of the ''Gate City, joined in the
conversation and led off by saying that
Ia had just returned from a trip to Ohio
and Indiana, and that if there was any
thing that Texas did need, it was thor
ough advertising and writing up in the
leading newspapers of the North.
" Why, > says the man from Sherman,
"TeXas is looked upon by the majority
of the people east of the Mississippi river
and north OF the Ohio river in about the
same light as the Chinaman is by the
people of other nations. They have no
more use for Texas than we and those of
other states have for the Chinaman. -
That is putting it pretty strong, I
remarked, and il that is the
impression people have of Texas, it Is
time something was done to enIighten
them.
Fright you are, says the Grayson
man. "'DOn t take my word for
it, but go North and mingle and mix
with the people as l have and you will be
convinced that l have not overdrawn the
situation
'WeH, - says the Gate City man,
what you say would be amusing were
it not so true. We that know Texas well
know that the reputation Texas has North
is she reverse of facts, and we also know
that we never can settle and develop our
state without the reputation we are en-
titled to.
cit certainly is a serious matter. and
one which we are are all directly inter-
ested in, says the gentleman from Sher-
man.
owe certainly can t expect to add to
our present population and capital to any
great extent with our present reputation,
at least from the territory you gentlemen
speak of - l ventured TO remark
Fright you are again, - says the
"and we will all have to ad-
nit that If we want capital and farmers
hat are able financially to develop our
prairie lands, of which we have so much !
We will have to go north of the Ohio and |
east of the Mississippi rivers to get |
Doth. -
- fully agree with you in that,
ays the Sherman citizen.
"Oh, well, talk is cheap and |
We of Texas have certainly done |
enough of that on the emigration |
question. 1t is time we went to work.
,hipped in the z. c. of Denison.
. If THE GAZETTE succeeds in round !
NC up Northwest Texas and we are not |
Included in that district, or taken in In |
he organization we can, and no doubt |
viii, get up a little district of our own !
md work with Central Texas. This |
We can do and for one hope to gee THE |
GAZETTE 5 suggestion carried out, for l |
believe it would be the means Of putting
III of us TO work. Success to the THE /
GAZETTE and the movement, - said
Sherman, - as he made ''Bee Line'
or the train.
This had the effect of break
NJ up our informal meet
nG. The experience and observation
+ the gentleman from Sherman is that
+ thousands Of citizens of Texas who oe-
asionally make a trip North. Those who
isit the old states invariably have the
anne story to tell on their return, viz:
he lack of information of Texas by the