Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-12
JUSTICE DEMANDED.
One Who Knows is Pointed Out Few
Items He Had 0verlooked-The
Excursions From the Fast.
FORT Worth, TK1.. Aug. IL, 1896

III your issue of to-day appears q COM
municatlon entitled Didn't Work it
Up which is signed "One Who
Knows and purporrs to give an ex-
PLANTATION of the alleged failure of the
Southeastern harvest excursions to bring
people to Texas.
The article may be true as to some OF
the Texas railroads, but is so manifestly
unjust to others, that l deem il but sim
pie justice to them TO set your CORES
pondent right in this particular matter.
He says:
1.-THE Southeastern roads sent TO Texas
last winter over fifty travelling passenger
agents TO work up and advertise the
holiday excursion TO the Southeastern
states from this state. The result WIS
that thousands of tickets were sold. How
many travelling agents did the Texas
| railroads send over into the Southeastern
states to work up the excursion this way
the last of July? l will veutute to say
that there was not one agent represent
Ing Texas line sent into the Southeast
ern states to assist in advertising the late
excursion to Texas? When Texas rail-
roads work for business as other roads do
TO work business and people out of Texas
They will have the people to SHOW and
| speak for themselves.
Now the facts are that the Fort Worth
and Denver had Messrs. Radcliffe and
! DeHart of their passenger department
J in Tennessee and Alabama tor two weeks
| previous TO the excursions referred to.
! The ''Cotton Belt' had r. NJ. Carter
| and six other men in the same field. The
! Texas and Pacific had three men and the
'Irou Mountain route had several
more, all working night and day to get
! people started TO Texas. The result
was that the Cotton Belt brought in 900
people. the Texas and Pacific about as
many more, and the Fort Worth and
Denver carried nearly 1000 prospectors
into the Panhandle from these excus-
sions. If Zone Who Knows would
! take the trouble to ascertain
what efforts the roads above
mentioned have made, and are making,
to bring people to this state he would not
be IN so great a hurry to condemn Texas
railroads in such sweeping manner. If
lone Who Knows" could get outside of
the state few miles and see how the
various roads leading into Texas take
advantage of these low rates to advertise
their business, and, at the same time,
run up against the competition that is
doing everything possible to divert travel
TO other sections of the country, he
would perhaps know more than he seems
to now. for one am IN favor of giving
our railroads full credit for the work
they are doing and of encouraging them
to continue.
The result of the July excursion was
fully a. good as could be expected and
nobody has been making any "excuses'
for them unless the article quoted from |
the Dallas News was intended as an
apology and l will venture to say that |
no RAILROAD man or emigration worker |
ever thought of making any excuses to |
anybody. l believe that our railroads |
can be trusted to throw their men into |
any field that promises business for their |
respective lines, and 1 am not one that |
thinks they can be made TO do more by |
continually crying down the efforts being
made.
Let us take it for granted that the
roads know how to run their own busi-
ness and get ourselves in line to encour-
age them in every possible way instead of
obstructIng the work.
An idea seems to prevail among a
great many good people who are inter-
ested in immigration to Texas that all
that is necessary to be done is to give a
mau bundle of handbilis and tack
hammer and let him make weeks trip
North or East and the people will come
hocking in. A great many of these good
people are morally certain that If they
could be furnished with free transporta-
ton, the aforesaid bills and tack-ham-
mer, and their expenses Paid, that they
could go out among the people of other
states and move them to Texas by the
thousands. notice that these mission
aries make about one trip and
in some instances bring back one or two
personal friends who are looking for
good job in Fort Worth or a soft snap in
the Panhandle, and having done that,
they are satisfied to let the railroads do
the work in their own way. If am not
zone Who Knows" has tried
his hand at some of this missionary work,
and would perhaps like to go out again.
at the expense of some railroad, and
work business into Texas.
The fact is that the work of inducing
people to remove permanently from one
section of country to another is one
that cannot be done spasmodi-
cally, but must be systematic
rally and persistently followed up
for long time before results are OBJ
tanned, and since it is only within the
past two years that any particular work
mas been done in this line for Texas, 1
think the present influx of population
ana capital to this state is ample proof of
he effectiveness of the methods used.
rhe railroads are spending thousan of
dollars all over the country to "move
people, and Texas Is getting her full
hare at this time and the promise of
more in the future. What il the South
eastern roads do send their men to work
people "out of Texas at Christmas
ime? Let me ask zone Who Knows
low many of the people Sho went out of
Texas on these holiday excursions stald
tut?
Much has been said about those same 6
ow rates out of Texas last winter, but I
-enture the assertion that the great ma
GRITTY of people who took advantage of
hem to visit their old homes came back T
gain and brought others with them. t
JUSTICE. 7
SHUT DOWN.