Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-01
PASS HRoMNING,s BILL.


sus is grossly inaccurate, and that by
its incorrect returns, as shown by Roger
| Q. Mills in the April Forum, the state
is deprived Of three representatives in
| congress and three votes in the electoral
college, it still remains that even by
the most liberal enumeration this great
state OF 262, 300 square miles is sparsely
populated. Inspection Of the report
| shows that in the PIG organized and
twenty-three unorganized counties, one
county only hes more than sixty thou
sand inhabitants, only two go beyond
| fifty thousand. Tarrant is alone at 49,,
900, and the others fall below to point
| where the number only requires one
figure. Admitting Porter's figures to
be approximately correct, the vast area
OF unoccupied territory is at once ap-
| parent. Another fact is notable, that it
is only those counties that have the
larger cities that show any density of
population. Dwellers in cities are not
the developers OF q country; business
centers, it is true, furnish the
means, but it is the miner, the farmer
and the stocllman who must support
the towns. To use physiological figure,
the town is the heart, sending through
veins and arteries the life blood; but
the country is the body by whose exer-
ton food is supplied to sustain the vital
forces.
1t follows then that to conserve the
best interests OF q country it is neces-
| sary that development be encouraged.
This can only be done by inducing ir.-
migration OF class that is industrial,
energetic and intelligent. With no
irreverence one may appropriate Paul's
query, "how shall they hear unless q
preacher be sent 10 them?" The
human mind is so constituted that there
is nothing quite SO convincing as see
ing, and this is what gives weight TO the
appropriation bill now pending in the
legislature. BY it, Browning OF Don
ley proposes that the state appropriate
SlQ0, 0G0 for the purpose OF placing
proper state exhibit at the Columbian
exposition to be held at Chicago in 1893.
In substance the bill provides fer the
appointment by the governor OF one
general commissioner, to enter at once
upon the work OF collecting specimens
OF all the products OF this state, natural,
artificial and manufactured, agricul-
tural and mechanical, and also to collect
data appertaining to all the various in
dustries of Texas and to effect the best
possible arrangements with the rail-
roads and other transportation COM
panies for the conveyance OF the same
to the said exposition and back, said
commissioner to have lady assistant.
In addition the governor is authorized
to appoint one commissioner and lady
assistant from each congressional dis
trict, who must pledge themselves to
spend thirty days of each quarter in
active service. The general commits
sioner is to proceed at once to Chicago
and secure ample space and grounds for
the Texas exhibit, and during the ex-
position he is required to devote his
entire time and services to properly
representing the state"
The appropriation is asked from the
fund now in the treasury, and any
money accruing from sale of state ex-
hibits is to be paid into the treasury OF
the state to the credit OF the general
revenue fund.
The bill as now presented cannot in
any OF its provisions be charged with
extravaganza. In fact, the sum asked
for seems inadequate to q demand
which has been from 100000 to ST.
000.0 Whatever constitutional diff
culties present themselves, they can be
overcome as was done at the time OF
the fair at New Orleans.
The fact that the bill has been
presented by prominent man in the
Panhandle country adds Importance to
the measure. This section is part Of
Texas that has been as little known as
any, aud perhaps purposely misrepre-
sented. To Texas even the wheat of
Wichita, the vegetables and fruits OF
Tom Green county were revelation
during the exhibit at the Spring
Palace; and to the thousands from all
parts Of the world who will be at
Chicago in 1893 proper exhibit of the
minerals, lumber, agricultural and
manufactured products of this state
would be surprise almost as great as
when Columbus laid the riches OF new
world at the feet Of his royal mistress,
Queen Isabella Of Spain.
Texas is a new world. It's resources
are only partially developed, its riches
are unestimated. A we'll selected,
wisely conducted exhibit at Chicago
will be volume known and read as no