Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-06
COMING TO TEXAS.
The Movement on Foot to Settle Por-
ton Of Ireland's Poor in Texas.
The Picture OF the Lone star State Drawn by
an English Journal Texas and Ire
land Both Benefited.

| Liverpool journal of Commerce, Nov. 10, 1890.
While there are greatly divergent
views held concerning the extent to
which the potato crop in Ireland will be
blighted, there Is absolutely no differ
| ence of opinion as to the statement that
great distress does and will exist in the
agricultural districts of the three coun-
tries during the coming winter. The So
| cieties which do great deal of good
work in alleviating the annual chronic
suffering OF the country laboring and
farming classes are issuing specially
strong appeals to the philahthropic for
increased subscriptions; and the Liver
pool Journal of Commerce, in late re-
view of the wheat crop for 1890, pointed
out the very remarkable fact that the
keen, level-headed corn merchants of
Liverpool were fixing their estimates and
prices upon the assumption of great
decrease in the crop Of potatoes. Even
last year, when there was undoubtedly a
very good harvest, the distress was eX-
ceedingly acute, for the fall in prices
affected the solanum tuberosum az much
as anything else, and the unfortunate
Il
good market for the wherewithal
to pay the rent, were bitterly dIsap-
pointed when they found that the SPLEEN
did yield meant, in some cases, less
prices than suificed to pay the cost of
carriage. The difficulty of meeting
with this chronic ever-present distress is
one which has engaged the attention of
every English and Irish statesman for
some considerable time back, but its So
luton, except in the way of emigration,
is just as near now as it was twenty
years ago. Equitable land laws have,
perhaps, helped to improve the WELT to-
do farmers, and through them the peas
antry, but the latter class are still cry
ing out bitterly for bread and now and
again it is found utterly impossible to
refuse governmental assistance to the
unfortunate people. 1t is not, there
fore, an objectionable sin for those who
have found that only one remedy has SO
far succeeded IN making any permanent
impression on the poverty of the peas
antrY and small farmers if they should
turn again to their old love and endeavor
at all events to do some little good
by again pursuing the beaten
track. 1t Is rumored on very ex-
cellent authority that movement
is on foot for the purpose of forming an
emigration syndicate, who will buy land
in the Western and Southern states of
America, and advance money to intend |
ing settlers for the purpose of establish
ing a large number of the most distressed
people in the states mentioned. If our
be correct, it is not the in |
tention of the promoters land there are |
many good names amongst them) to |
pauperize the people by presenting them |
either with passage money or land, but |
the transaction will be purely business
one-a moderate interest being charged |
for the loan-and so certain is the surety |
of repayment that not the slightest diff
Guilty is apprehended as to the raising of |
the necessary capital. 1t is said that |
the sum Of flo is sufficient to pay for the
outfit, passage money and railway fare |
of each adult passenger right to the spot
Of his destination in such state as
Texas, and once there the promoters of
The proposed association are confident of
their ability in q short time to turn the
most poverty-stricken irish peasant into
a thriving, prosperous farmer, the
owner of his land in per-
petuity, and the founder maybe of one
Of the first families in the American
republic. Emigration has undoubtedly
. great many enemies, but the forces ar
aged against IL are as much due to those
v no in the past have mismanaged affAirs
Is to the natural love of home so dear to
he Irish heart. The pictures painted in
Martin Chuxzlewit' were uufortu-
lately only too we'll borne out by the
Acts of the case, aud to the spirit of
many a brave-hearted Mark Tapley i'll
Iue to the fair fields and happy home