The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-18
AN EARNEST Ape AL.
A Very Important Matter-Waeo
Give Attention and Act.

Ill W.
,th of this month-next Tues
aay-one week from today. This
one week settles the question
whether or not our people can sae
great opportunity and seize it while
they may. S. me people sit silently
ba3k hoping and believing some
others were going to pay for every
public enterprise, enhance the value
Of their property while they do
nothing.
We are now making Il mistake,
and when the opportunity is lost,
and we realize hat the priz, was,
many of us will creep out of our
holes aud say we would have con-
tributed if anyone had asked us.
Just con ,ide this request.
We have some blessings not pos
sesscd by any other city in Texas,
and to have Mr.. Rockefeller be-
hind us in endowing college will
be something no other city has.
Shall we lose it because we are too
! poor TO raise ,OUO.
DR.. Carroll has about despaired.
lie has worked hard and OILY sue.
ceeded in raising 1852, and most
of that from members of his owu
congregation, after the school trus.
Lees out Of their own pockets raise
5000.
This should not be looked on as
sectarian school. 1t is an lnstl-
luton Of Waco. and matriculates
more scho ars than any institution
N the 5 ,uthern States, end if we
succeed IN raising the pattry sum
asked we then secure the aid of
Mr.. RI, k efeller, Il patron who
Chicago is proud to claim, he hay
ING contributed about two million
dollars TO an institution in thai
oity.
Is it any honor, distinction or
adv antage to h9 on the test with
Chicago with such patron as Mr..
Rockefeller? Texas has no limit IN
her ex pansion, but if Mr.. r. ,ckefel-
Ter sees We are the center Of a vast
population, Increasing fas. in mem
bers and wealth, may give US be-
yond our most sauguiue expe ia
II tions. at some future time. Tha
LsyAs will give us beautifully, and i'm
non, dia!ely is certain.
Ime He had his agent write and ask
~ as if We were getting rea ly to draw
n onhim for the last of the debt, that
he might prepare for endow m ant.
mis- is a sub ect that appeals to
every mechanic, tradesman
professional man, and also TO every
emotion of our natures, as it will
build us up materially, socially and
intellectually.
Dr. Carroll tells me he knows
whereof he speaks when he says,
that if we raise this money it Sc
cures us endox IN snt, and then thu
college will have 70 double its room
TO entertain The students.
The money these students leave
here permeates every branch o
business, and we all receive its ben
ehts IN some way.
One Jew firm after giving 1880
heretofore, is now the largest con
lrlbntor to laise the present $1,000
All honor to them,
Now that we are all feeling tn
returning wave of prosperity, ant
value enhancing confidence being
restored we should not repulse such
great opportunities when they ar
Knocking a. our door.
You may say it here and can
II leave. True. But it is the endow
ment We are after. 1t is simply, will
We pay $1,000 to be assured on'
man who will put in tens of thou:
ands-and perhaps ultim stely mil
hon: and thereby solidify and en-
nance the values you may leav
your family. When Mr.. Rockefel
Ter once endows il, it makes us al
institution for all time, and is tn
maik-the shining mark-for othe
great philanthropists when they az
looking around for some institution
to leave their fortunes to.
One man has given to Harvard
College S36O,O0O every year fl
the last four years, and as our stat
IS so vast and her future so immense