Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-24

tions and holding wind conventions and
talking about what we are going to do,wont
do the business.
''No, sir; you Just as well expect to go
out here in Tarrant county and harvest
twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre where
you or no one else ever sowed grain of
wheat, or go down to Erath county and eX-
pect bale of cotton to the acre where YOU
never planted a cotton seed, as to expect
immigration to Texas without working and
spending money for it
Speaking of Tarrant county, hear oc-
casionally on the street that there is some
talk of opening old Tarrant county up for
settlement. Good scheme. It's important
and good news for Fort Worth if true, but
you know said John, 1--WE have heard that
so often that it has become chestnut of an
uncertain age"
Well" continued Howard, ''you can in
form the home-seeker and investOr-if you
don't mind giving us little free space
that the Dublin district the county of
Erath and a good portion of Comanche,
Eastland and Hamilton counties) is now
wide open and ready for settlement. Yes,
sir, and we are spending money for print
ers' ink every day, just to let the dear peo-
pie know of it, and Furthermore, we offer
to refund their railroad fair if they find
anything to suit them in the way of
home"
Yes, you are correct The Dublin land
and improvement company fnean business.
| and while others are talkang they are at
work; They offer to refund the railroad
fare from any point in theUnited States to
Dublin providing the people come over the
| Katy (NIfssouri Kansas and Texas rail
road, or the Cotton Belt route, and pur-
chase property to cetain amount
.How muchpropert8?'
''F'rom $3.50 Il slOO0pr over, according to
distance traveII. You will see our notice
Nff
ing columns of TkE EAzETTE. If you give
me any more free ace you will have some
of those fellows WI never spend a dollar in
advertising kickifX about giving Erath
county free ad.,
Speaking of the Katy and the Cotton
Belt, Howard SAID: Whose two roads are
doing very we'll flor T8xas roads, in the
way of advertising and no doubt they will
improve as they grow oldsr. Fact is, none
OF our roads are hurtingAh mselves much
working for Texas, but thdse two are doing
more than any of the othel5b and should be
encouraged i9 the good werk by giving
them our business, both freight and pas
senger.'
Il will if you and The GAZETTE can stand
it, repeat what l have already said, time
and again. It's time the people of Texas
and railroads of the state got together. 1t
was as you know, for making this and other
similar suggestions as well as for inform
ing the people of the state that the rail
roads of Texas We're not advertising and
working for the state and that if they ex-
pected the work to be done they would
either have to do it or join the roads in it.
etc, that caused me to be called
and referred to as u crank.
refer to the state immigration con-
yention held at Dallas some three years
ago. For that and similar work l was re-
warded by being bounded like criminal by
certain railroad officials who defeated the
will OF the people at that convention an d
took charge of the convention by the dis
tribution of passes, favors aud promises,
and then let the work die natural DEATH
SIN that work had the press of the state
with me, without which we never could
have reached the people, and The GAZETTE
did noble work in that movement: in fact,
she lead off with the work and stayed with
it to the finish, and it did seem too bad 10
have the work knitted by those whom the
people thought were their friends.
Eyes, l am thankful to have lived in
Texas long enough to have the people learn
the truth about this matter, as l was CEN
sured quite severely by some for fighting
railroads 'misrepresenting the officials
etc. But time regulates all things, and /
have been partly if not fully indicated"
Eyes, many prominent citizens of Texas
as well as a number of our high railroad Of
ficials, knew that / was the man who started
the press that caused the people to come
together at Dallas to attend that conven-
ton, and among many others, none knew
this better than Col. Belo of the Dallas
News, W. Fl. Newman, at that time traffic
manager of the Gould system, and l could
name any number of bankers, real estate
and newspaper men scattered over the
state who were approached by me on the
subject of an immigration movement before
we took up the work in the press. But
this is ancient history now, and there is no
money or good in living in the past. The
only reason l mention this matter is that
feel it due my family, friends and self to
let the public know that 1 was right in
statements made at that time, and am still
fighting it out on that ticket, and have the
satisfaction and pleasure of knowing that
many of my friends throughout Texas have
finally been convinced that 1 was right from
the start"
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