El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-07

diversified farming in east Trxas, and
who has just returned to Texas from
the ChOctaw nation, is quoted as cay
ing:
1.-THE Indian Territory is now ripe
| for the allotment of the lands and the
allotment cannot be made any too soor
| for the general good of the residents OF
the territory. Every thing is in an un-
settled state there now, and a speedy
| allotment Ia the only way 20 sound
and stable condition of things. The
justice of the demand for allotment il
conceded by all men, and it is felt tn at
the progress of the territory must
be blocked and its development t
checked until action ia taken by the
government. 1t seems pity that the
thr fly farmers who have settled there
have invested capital should be held in
suspense so long. Action, action. is
the need of the hour
The great territorial convention re-
Gently held appears to be step in the
right direction. Its deliberations were
marked by candOr and consistency and
the prospects of bringing order out of
the chaotic conditions which now
prevail have increased hun 'redfOld
since the leading men of all shades of
thought got together and exchanged
their vi-ws. Gen. Earl ls understood to
have been one of the first men to
suggest the conference and to have
advocated it everywhere on his wagon
trips through the territory until it
materialized.
They are coming from the deserts of
the dim and dusty east, where to raise
q stunted turpip Ia the prospect OF
feast; where the farms are made OF
gravel, and they pillow with dynamite,
where the festive chattel mortgage
sings it's dirge by day aud night; they
are coming on the train, they are COM
ing from the regions where they strug-
from the cabin, they are coming
from the hall: they are COM
ing down to Texas where there's
room enough for all. They are coming
from the Southland, they are coming
from the North; from the valleys and
the noun tains-they in droves are
coming it'll their husbands, they are
coming with their hammers and their
needles and their knives; with their
pencils and their guns: they are COM
ing with their fathers and their moth
ers and their sons. They are coming
stout and strong, they are comm
short and tall; they are coming now to
Texas where there's plenty for then
all; where you meant dig potatoes
with q sabre or a dirk, where
when rain is badly needed then
the rain gets in its work; where the
rivers mourn and murmur on their
journey to the sea; where the breszes
tackle cornstalks big as fence posts on
the lea where the savage lately wan
dered on his search for human hair,
with his hoarse and bowling war-cry
floating on the summer air; where a
hundred braves would answer to the
chieftsin's battle call; they are
coming still to Texas where there's
plenty for them all: where the
savage used to wsnder yearning for
a crop of hair; now the farmer takes
his poker to the nearest county fair,
and now the corn is gaily growing
where the bloody wigmam stood,
where he burned the wsilipg captive
now the poultry scratch for food; and
the people who are coming to this
plessantest of chimes, show a happy
knack of keeping up with the progress
OF the times; they will find a country
beaming from the springtime to the
fall, when they land in sunny Texas
where there's plenty for them all.