The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-08
TEXAS STATE Is BOOMING
DIR. ROBILLARD TALKS AYOIT HIS
TRIP TO THE SOUTH
WEST
SplendidIy Entertained by the Peo-
pie of That Section-FOrmer Citi-
zens of St. Paul Meet Him Kindly
Color Line Strictly Drawn.

DR.. RObillard has recently returned
from a two weeks trip through Southern
Texas and is very enthusiastic over the
information gained on the journey He
declares that Texas is the only state in
the Union where men properly enjoy life
and holds that not even excepting the
citizens OF our own state the Texans ex-
eel all corners in hospitality.
Il have been gone about two weeks
said the doctor yesterday, land in all my
life L never had a more enjoyable time.
L went from here to Hillsboro, Tex,
where 1 have brother and spent some
time with him. afterwards visiting Waco
Fort Worth. Dallas and Galveston.
Hll1sboro is city of about 5000 and
the finest people in the world live there.
had hardly arrived when / met Mayor
Quirkstad, John harrison, P Flanagan,
John Casey and ex-Congressman Abbott.
former acquaintance of your mayor
They were all masons and they helped me
spend my time in a most delightful man.
ner. Such hospitality as 1 enjoyed is pc
culiar to the South and cannot bt. equal
ed In any other section of the country.
The climate of Texas is very agree
able, and while 1t was cold and chilly
here we had several days with the Their
mometer 102 in the shade during one half
OF the day. On Easter Sunday 1 went to
church and found that the regulation
Easter bonnet had been discarded for
sunbonnets. under which one caught
laughing flashes of dark brown eyes and
charming smiles; the kind which make
one want to come again. Peach trees
were IN blossom and corn, cotton, tobac-
CO, millct and other products were well
under way in the fields.
waco was the liveliest town l encoun-
tered and while there l ran up against
genuine Texas citizen, the horned toad
1 bought one for two bits and brought
him home. He is a peculiar specimen J
nave been calculating the humber OF
horns to the square inch which he pos
sesses and have decided that If a man
had an equal number comparatively he
would count about 234, 765, ia of them
and would be excellently well prepared to
brush up against most anything, even a
St. Paul municipal campaign
Texas has been misrepresented 1t is
q grand state and its people possess
more geniality, hospitality and congenial
1rlendllneSS to strangers than any ]
have ever met before. Through the In
dian Territory, Arkansas and Arizona
the people are the same and in spite OF
the wild, weird tales told of that coun-
try, 1t is almost ideal in many respects.
In Mexico 1t Is different. 1 went across
the border and saw women using snun
sticks, smoking pipes and chewing to-
bacco. I was terribly shocked. The
moral code across the line Is crude, but
as the Salvation Army has invaded the
land, will no doubt improve.
''From Port Arthur to Kansas City
there is a strip of country which has no
equal in the world for mineral wealth.
Lead, tin, zinc. copper, gold. silver.
opals iron, coal in quantities which put
the Pennsylvania deposits in the shade
and the finest manganese beds in tho
world are found and it will be only a
matter of time until that country sup
plies the whole inhabited globe with
these minerals.
II think the country has grand
future. Even now, colonies Of Danes.
Swedes and Norwegians are developing
the country and 1T only depends on the
natural course >of things to turn the
country into garden spot Already
Hillsboro has First ward which made
me think of our own and a mayor there
is with Swede name.
ST met a Mr.. Walters In Hillsboro.
who was formerly resident of the city
and member of 50, B. P. o. e. He in
troduced me to large number of his
friends and made it very pleasant. The
color line is strictly drawn. After leav-
ing Kansas City I was very much sur
prised to find the cars labeled: This car
for white people, and This car for col
ored people, while / noticed that the
depots along the line had double sets of
waiting rooms, one for white and the
other for colored people. The negroes
are shiftless in many respects and the
dream of many good Northerners. OF
seeing them grand free people, devoted
to the agricultural arts, seems far from
realization. So far as ] could determine.
the city colored folks cling to gambling
and general laziness with remarkable
tenacity while the country colored are
just naturally lazy.
at would be good thing for many
peonle to make a visit to the Lone star
state One cannot appreciate what mag
nificent resources it has. Here In Min
nesota we think that We are nearly the
whole thing, but I was somewhat sur
prised to learn that in Texas they re-
.alize that we exist but, beyond slight
dent, we seem to have made no impress
sion on them. except in q few isolated
cases where the northern socia! side Is
apreeably remembered"