Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-28
Go 20 Texas.
Havana GllJ Republican.


This was formerly the style in which an
offensive person was consigned TO the SUI
perlatively bad. y change seems TO be
coming over the face of the words, and they
are now Il benedictiou rather than curse.
SEQ to Texas now signifies BE healthy.
wealthy and wise" at least II we may BE-
iieve the stories told us by the Texas ora
tors VINO visited US last Saturday
and brought with them Of the ''grancS
OF Eschol." the fruits of vine
ward. garden, orchard and field to back up
their statement They assured Us they had
quit raising hell" ii they ever had been
doing il. that the lions and bears were an
chained, the terrible CoEfeGerdtcS were all
gentlemen, the cowboy had become man
of peace. and there was nothing III the way
of our going down and possessing the land
flowing with milk and honey almost with
ont money and without price.
The cars exhibiting the wealth OF Texas.
three in number. arrived in this city from
Springfield on Friday evening. ana were
run upon the siding little below the lay
Tor house where they gave !; free exhibit
ton throughout the day. The cars were
visited by many OF our citizens, to whom
the exhibit was d revelation as to the pro
ducts and possibilities of that land.
The Fort Worth car, under the imme-
diate control Of Mr.. I. a. Wilkinson. immi-
grafton commissioner CT the Fort Worth
especial attention. i was supplied with Il
fine mammoth map of the state Ill
brilliant colors, showing all the counties,
principal cities and railroads. ocean
steamers entering the ports of Gal
weston. BraZonia ana Corpus Christi also
colleges built OF native stone, Chamber OF
Commerce at Fort Worth. etc. This was
on the outside of the car, and was a grand
advertisement of the state. 1t was the de
sign of MIR. Wilkinson himself, who, by the
| way. inauguratcd this great movement III
behalf of his adopted state
Mr. Wilkinson, besides being an orator
| and man Of affairs, is w:thal. something
| of Il poet. as viii be seen from the follow
| ing sirenic song with which he seeks TO
| lure Northern people to the Southland:
| Ho. We men of the frost-bitten states
| Lay by your tobogganS. unstrap your ska ties;
| Come to the southland OF palms ana dates;
| lie only loses who falters and waits,
| Homes for the million, homes FOR the free,
| Down in fair Texas. down by the sea:
| \ welcome. glad welcome is waiting for thee,
| Come 10 the Gulfland and happy you. Il be.
| Texas has opened her gates TO the world.
| Her banner OF progress TO the breeze is un-
| furied.
| Then come where no letters retard thy al
! vance;
| Where values are low and bound to enhance,
| Because Of thy presence among us.
In the afternoon the orators took the
| stand in the courthouse square and eXpati-
ated on the largeneSs and richness, the
! gories, beauties and possibilities of the
| state of Texas. The first and principal
| speaker was Ex-Governor and eX-Confed-
crate r. 5. Hubbard an old-time Texan,
good orator and progressive man,
though as yet Democrat. The other men
| were MIR Wilkinson, formerly OF Wiscon-
| sin, and Mr.. Slosson of Kansas, both Re
! publicans. who maintain their Republi-
canism in Texas. and thus are living exam
pies OF liberty il. that land. AL however,
sank their partyism in Il united effort TO de-
| velop the Lone Star state.
| Texas has made prodigious strides in pro
gress since the war, in population, in the
| development of her resources, in education,
and she is lifting up her eyes to the heights
| still before her. when Galveston, thanks TO
| Republican administration and billion
| dollar congress, shall become port of en-
! Try for the largest ocean steamers, and turn
the course of travel and traffic of the great
! West southwark.