Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-05
TO SHOW TEXAS.
EXCURSION OF THE NATIONAL
EDITORIAL CONVENTION.
Bring the Scribes Into the State, Show
Them Our Natural Resources and
They Will Never Tire Writ
ing About Us.
FORT WORTH, TEX, June 2, 1891.
q IIt VdLtItt.
This is an age of advertising.

To the Gazette.
This is an age of advertising.
What Texas needs is more advertising.
The people of the North and East are as
ignorant of what Texas really is as we are
| OF Africa OK as Col Dickinson. secretary
of the Worlds fair, says, We know u
great deal about the outside world, because
most OF us travel and see for ourselves, but
the outside world knows nothing about us
for they have never been here to see what
we have"
The manner in which Texas entertained
the order of railroad conductors who were
here snort time ago, will be of much bene-
fit 10 the state from the fact that they re-
turned home with Il good impression or the
state, and as they We're all representative
men, from all sections of the Union, Canada
and Mexico, and as rule passenger con-
iuctors they will talk great deal about
their trip and the state, and in that way
give US I great amount of advertising.
But we have chance next month, if
we but take advantage of it, that will do is
more good and give us more free advertiS-
ing than we could secure for many thou
sands of dollars. I
Some time about the year 1876 the Atch-
ison. Topeka and Santa F'e railroad, having
large grant of land in Kansas and want
ing to sell it, considered the best plan by
which the state could be advertised.
What did they do!
They sent an agent into three or four
states east of the Mississippi river who
invited all the editors of newspapers in
those states to visit Kansas on free eX-
curSiOn on certain date.
This was gladly taken advantage of Ly
the newspaper man vino is always willing
to go on an excursion which will cost him
nothing.
This party of editors visited Kansas, saw
everything that was to be seen, returned
nd lie bai NIL
of the wonderful things that they had seen
in Kansas. This was what started the
wonderful tide Of Immigration that Kansas
had few years ago
The money that the Santa t'e road eX-
pended on this excursion was returned TO
them thousand times over in the next few
years.
Now we of Texas have the same oppor-
tmity, only in Il much greater degree. My
plan is this: Next month the national ed
itorial convention will be held at St.
Paul. MINI. There will be newspaper men
from every section Of the Union. Let our
state newspaper association go to work at
once, without delay. and see if the railroads
will not give them free ride to Texas and
return. | believe that they will DO this If
the matter is brought to their attention
properly, so that Charles Edwards of
Austin and John Hoeney, who are the dele
gates from Texas TO this convention, can so
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the great state of Texas invite these mold
ers of the public opinion to visit our great
and glorious commonwealth ana see us as
we are and our wonderful resources.
| will venture to say that many who will
attend this convention think that Fort
Worth is a frontier Indian trading post and
that Indians and buffalo can be found but a
few miles from the city. What they will
see If they do visit Texas will aStOnish them
so much that they will fill their papers full
when they return home of the wonderful
things they have seen in Texas, and in that
way we will receive advertising that money
could not buy.
When they arrive in the state each city
on their route should show them what it
has and entertain them. Side trips should
be arranged, for instance, trip up into the
Panhandle. where they will see the great
wheat fields, where four or five counties
grow 5000. 600 bushels of wheat. more than
the whole state produced a year ago.
There can be no question but what this
would be the grandest thing in the way of
IN advertising scheme that the state has
gone into yet. VIII THE GAZETTE attach
her tow line ''onto" to it and boom" it!
W. S. DECKER.