Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-21
Good Way to Advertise Texas.
Galveston News, June II.
COMMANDER TAYLOR INDoRsEs IT.

COMMANDER TAYLOR lNDORSES
Your correspondent here called upon
Capt. A. X. Taylor, state commander
of the G. A. R. of Texas, and upon
showing it asked his opinion of the
feasibility of the plan suggested by Capt.
g A. knight and printed in Sunday 5
Dallas News:
"'While Texas is putting forth every
effort to draw people and capital from
the old states, especially from the North
ern and Eastern states, l would like to
make q suggestion to railroads and BUSH
ness men, which if carried out will, with
very very little outlay, bring thousands
of dollars into the state for Investment,
and thousands of good settlers. 1t is
simply to arm our Grand Army delega-
ton, who will go in few weeks TO BOs-
ton, Mass. to attend the annual en-
oampment, Grand Army of the Republic,
with facts and figures relative to the re-
sources of Texas.
HThere is wonderful amount of
ignorance and prejudice on the part of
the people of the North and East rela-
tive to all parts of the South and es-
pecially Texas. The belief is quite uni
versal up there that life and property
are not as secure in Texas as in Massa-
chusetts and other Northern states, and
as long as this belief obtains immigra-
ton and capital will be slow to move
this way.
''In Boston there will be thousands of
representative men from every Northern
state, and it will be good place to ad-
vertIse Texas and her resources. Our
Grand Army men who belong to Texas
by adoption will be living, walking testi-
mony of the fact that Northern men and
eX-Union soldiers are welcomed TO Texas,
and If our Grand Army men are properly
backed up by Texas cities and Texas
railroads with printed matter, with good
Headquarters room we'll located in a
prominent hotel, they will be able to
catch the eye and ear of vast number
of people who would be valuable addi-
ton to the population of this state.
GThe deduction naturally follows that
if our Texas climate sis healthy for ex-
Union soldiers, certainly Northern capI-
tai would be safe if invested here.
While most of the G. A. R. men of
Texas are not wealthy the same Is not
true of those living North, and what is
wanted Is q low rate of fare to Boston to
enable Texas to make reputable show
ing up there in numbers, and means
enough to procure for week q promi-
nent room at one of the principal hotels,
with such printed matter as towns, cities
and railroads would like to have placed
where it will do the most good.
''For years past California has adver-
tised at our national encapments on q
large scale and with good effect, aud
am told that the cities and railroads of
that state send delegations well supplied
with everything that fiTst-class dele
CATION of emigration agents should have
to do effective work for the state.
In response to a question, Capt. Tay-
Ior said: 81 had read the article be-
fore, and think that great deal of good
can be accomplished for Texas If the
plan proposed should be carried out. But
for fear that there might be some mis-
understanding of the plan, would like
to state here that it doesn't mean that
anybody should bear our expenses, but
we are simply willing to be instrumental
in working for the material betterment
of the state to the extent of our ability.
OF course if the railroads or the busi-
ness men would like to open handsome
room in one of the leading hotels in Bos-
ton, that a few OF the rare products of
Texas and literature concerning her vast
resources and general attractiVeness
might be displayed IN connection with
the extension of true Texan hospitality,
the Grand Army men would do, all they
could toward reaching the success sought.
OF course the actual extra expenses
would have to be disposed of in some
way, but they would be trifing compared
to the benefit resulting.
CIT is hardly necessary to refer to
the eight that would attach to a. ex-
position of the merits of Texas by
Grand Army men, such as Lyons, SIN
clair, Baer and others, who have lived
here since the war, or for twenty-five
years, and who intend to be Texans all
their days. The railroads would per-
haps come TO the front in the matter, as
those of California have done in the
cases of the annual meetings OF the
Grand Army of the Republic, of the
Knights Templar or the Knights of
Pythias, when carloads of native pro-
ducts would be forwarded TO any part
of the Union where the gathering took
place. ~
Your correspondent mentioned the
project to several other business men and
il met with universal favor, great
stress being laid upon the reliability of
the plan being well carried. Capt.
Taylor stated there would hs shout 200
Grand Army of the Republic members
present from Texas.