Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19

tary to foreign nag. Fifty
years ago you were an in-
dependent republic. You were I'D
mitted TO the Union and invested win
statehood in 1915. These are the prosale
ceronIcllngs of q romantic life. Su.
they do not tell ofthe baptism OF hre ana
blood which you received, nor OF your
development to greatness in the sweat OF
toll. Etched against your morning
horizon are the picturesque outlines OF
priest and peou, of cavalier ana
Comanche, of trapper and trader; anu
the heroic figures of Travis, OF Houston,
of Fannin and Stephen Austin. When
Texas rears its Pantheon, the ,hrst
statues must be taken from the Alamo
and from Goliad. Applause
II is the realization OF long cner-
ished hope to be q visitor to the state OF
Texas. The deeds of you heroes, your
MARTYRS, filled my boyish thought as the
minds OF Greciau lads were impressed oy
the Had and the Odyssey. The tihge OF
romance touches the early history OF
Texas as the wand OF fortune fails upon
the latter. The eye of every citizen OF
this 81 lendid country turns to Texas win
admiring glance. For this is the giant
of our Federation. Heretofore II mas
been looked upon mainly as giant III
stature rs an immense, unoceupieu ter
ritory, that would in time be cut up mo
four or five large states. But upon TINS
question stats patriotism mas mahliesteu
itself, and il has come to be known tha'
Texans are Jealous of preserving IN lis
original integrity the empire they re-
ceiyed from their fathers. Besides be-
ing gigantic in size, Texas Is being SHOWN
TO be enormous in value. The voice OF
-. In tha land. ana
populur imagination is dismissing the
pictures OF missionary and frontiersman'
of revolu,ionist ami Republican, as be-
ing bart of a pust that can never be re-
! heated, the heroic hge of state;
aud in their places is re-
celying statistics as to population,
cheap lands, fertile soils, salubriouS eli
mates. mineral and agricultural re-
| sources md the other attractions OF
growing state. As result, the halo OF
romance which shone about the brow OF
Texas is being replaced by the goiuen
nimbus of prosperity. If were less wen
acquainted with you would undertake
| TO In form you OF the immense resources,
the past achievement, the present prom
ise and the future grandeur OF your stste.
l should depict in the most glowing IAN
| guare could command the advantages
| you enjoy, the opportunities you preseh'
! for investment, the room you nave ior
toilers, the lands for settlers, ana so on
and so on. But since studying the mat
ter / have felt how inadequate are my
powers for the presentation OF such iae's,
and how feebly equipped l am as com
Dared with your average citizen. There
| il not q Texan at home or abroad VINO
| cannot tell YOU the area oud acreage OF
the state, or who will ignore an oppor-
tuni,y to do so. And he will go further
and tell YOU what states Gun be set down
in the middle of Texas and leave rim OF
preater area than the largest of our COM
monwealths-and how many days II VIII
take YOU 10 truvel from one end OF Texas
IN the other. He will tell you that the
soil grows everything under the sun; thnl
cottou mud corn, and bananas ana
erapes, and oranges and apples, ana po-
tatoes and peanuts, aud other incothpati-
BILE cereals, fruits and vegetables gro"
side by side on the same land, IN one ln-
closure, and that, surveying these neigh
borly products of separate zones the
mild-eyed lamb and the spirituelle heller
Craze on pasture OF perpetual prouuc-
tiyeuess and Lizard the lean earth as they
walk - l am not one of those wnt
would attempt-[applnuse
To paint the lily; to gid refined gold;
To add another perfume to the violet.
No: your newspapers are filled witt
OVERWHELMING statistics, with unanswer'
able arguments, showing your greatnes
.s f, state. aud upon no theme are thel
more liberal In adjectival description O
more flowery in rhetorical fancy. Read
inp the Texan accounts of Texas l hav
bpen compelled TO believe that tn
, same elements which cause your SOIL Ut
touch of the harrow to burst into proui
gal effiores ence inspire your peopie 10
rnyishing eloauence on Its fertility ant
bouutifuluess. Aud the trouble ABOUT
Is. that we, who are interested in the al
vaucement OF our own states. must con
fess that what you Texans say Is SO.
do not know what to predict or your STAT
. when every resident turns himself into
|. committee of one to make known its ut
fractions. 1t is like Chicago, when sh
. was seeking the location of the World
fair. Every letter that went out OF tina
citv for months enclosed circular set
ting forth the alleged superiority or Chl
coro rs q site for that great exposition
!, II il impossible to resist such influences
l 7 rsceiyed n letter from Texas some week
ago, and found within Its pages ei'p
ming which | will read for you:
K, STATISTICS OF THE GREAT EMPIRE STAT
4, OF THE UNION.
topu "a, ,ol N miles. PA. 3
Y Length, miles. '..-...''- :
s Breadth, miles. -'-''''''''''''''''' 1s
ct
g fnde1endence declared ............ Is
q Admitted into the Union..... $1,000 -, zsz e
Il Area ID acres ;-....'-'-''''''' &c 'HS0 n