The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-05

we have been subscribing towards the bank
accounts OF New England millionaires, ano
towards building their mansions on tbs
Hudson
Let me read TO you something the Hon.
Henry Terrell United States attorney Tor
the Western district OF Texas, recently
said after a visit to Washington, Phila.
delphia and several other big cities o.
The East. He said:
when see all of these teemng multi
tudes OF elegantly dressed women ana
fashionably attired men parading the
streets in a cesseless stream day and night.
crowding the trolley cars and the elevated
roads. filing the railroad coaches. suuirm-
ing and jostling through the superb cor
rldors of the big hotels. lining the boule-
Yards In automobiles-all Of these things
SET me seriously thinking live in a part
~ the country where men dig out OF the
ground the sustenance OF life Up this way
nobody lives off the soil. They don't
seem to do anything and yet they wear
more iewelry and finer clothes than DO
we working people OF the South and West.
Where do they get all the money 70 nuy
this finery and support this luxury ! am
beginning to believe that they get 1t fnom
us hayseeds of the South and West. ]
wonder If there will ever be CHANGE !
wonder If the wealth of the country will
ever be held where 1t is produced and II
there will ever be an even distribution OF
the luxury which this wealth supports
Enthusiastically the East has the bulge on
us at present"
Every bale OF cotton raised in Texas
should be spun in Texas We have been
selling cotton at s25 bale TO foreign
manufactures and buying it back In the
manufactured state at $50 to s75, We are
deliberately shipping cotton thousands OF
miles 10 Japan. s2d allowing them to build
factories. instead Of manufacturing our
cotton and shipping 1t there.
The demand for iron and steel is so far
in excess Of the supply that other States
are working double gangs from G o olock
in the morning till o'clock the next
nlcrning. while ctr magnificent iron fields
remain undeveloT cd and our furnaces idle.
Certainly Texas does a large export bust
ness. hut remember our exports are the
products o. unskil.ed leber. and nearly ali
the products of skilled labor. which we
use are imported.
Among other things we export thirty
million dollars worth of cattle, to say
nothing of hogs, and we import twenty
seven million dollars worth of meat and
meat products, and pay freight both wayA
The fact of the matter is that in Texas
we have been giving too much attention
to politics and not enough TO business
filtration We have done. some mighty
good preaching. and some mighty poor
practicing, and we have too many people
telling what ought to be done, and doing
nothing themselves.
Az the greatest OF all Worlds fairs.
which will be held in ST. Louis in 1902,
there will be fine opportunity for Texas
to show TO the world great exhibit Of
1 her products and resources, and to make
magnificent display. We can show that
Texas produces something besides cotton
corn, cattle and colonies. Our minerals,
agricultural and other products would i'm
mediately attract the attention of pros
pectors, homeseekers and others. We
could make an extraordinary display Of
early vegetables and fruit that would inn
press the right sort of people. A great
fish and game display would attract the
sportsmen, and some rich stranger who
came down 10 shoot ducks might feel so
delighted with our climate and prospects
that ne might be persuaded by some OF
you real estate men 10 buy some Texas
dirt
An exhibit of the undeveloped resources
and raw material to which | have called
your attention would be a surprise 10 many
interested parties in other States and
worth millions to Texas
At Omaha We were able to remove many
false impressions in regard to Texas, and
! We should continue the work at St Louis,
! You will remember that at Omaha We took
/ Up an exhibit on thirty days notice. which
attracted much attention, 1t compared
| favorably with exhibits from other states
H. = l. T. nj
! is abundant evidence that great good to
Texas resulted from the Omaha exhibit,
and II we fail to be represented at St.
4 Louis with an exhibit on scale in pro
| portion to the greatness Of our state, We
shall miss a chance that will not occur
| again in lifetime.
! believe that the Texas Real Estate a.
/ ISOLATION are the right people to take this
matter in hand and firmly believe that
/ If they do it will be a success. II an APP
| preparation is made by the state for this
| purpose il should be turned over to them,
/ they should be allowed 10 run the show
outside OF politics. and held Responsible
| In many states the history Of appropria-
/ tions for exhibits at expositions has been
that lobbyists got part Of the amount for
getting the measure through and the re-
mander was turned over TO some political
king bees and lady commissioners. VINO,
while perhaps honestly and conscientiously
doing their best. really knew nothing about
exposition details or the work connected
with an exhibit Most OF the money went
for their expenses and for social purposes
and very little or nothing at all was left
for gathering, preparing, installing and
maintaining the exhibit itself.
We should certainly be sociable, but
Texas does not need to spend thousands
of dollars at st. Louis for the purpose OF
advertising her hospitality. Texas hos
piality Is already well known all over the
United States, and | may say throughout
the world. II we go to ST. Louis we should
go there with an exhibit. and go there for
business. and not to provide Are feats for
feeding the host of parasites and played
out politicians who generally manage 10
get invitations TO banquets on such occa-
sions, The main object should be to ad-
yertise Texas, to tell the truth about our
state, and with a magnificent display I'm
press on the visitors the wonderful possi
oilities OF our future, and the chances they
would have in that future, for obtaining
health, wealth and a comfortable home i'm
the Lone Star State.
The time has hardly come to 20 into de-
TAILS OF this contemplated eahibit. In the
paper which ] read in WaSc, I referred
70 rms matter al some length. having been
invited to make suggestions Briefly stated
,ney we're that We should have a Texas ex-
niolt building, where great collective ex-
oil