The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-06


pralries with nearby gushers spoutlng oil
Likewise a prejudice born Of Ienorance
has gained currency In the East concern
Ing the attitude Of our laws toward capl
But the course OF empire has taken n
southwark direction, and Texas will as
sumo first place among the states New
England has had It's day ms a cotton manu-
featuring district. Her mills. weather
stained, and silent as the eternal hills by
which they stand, tell their own story. AS
politics is dictated and controlled by com
merclal interests, we shall soon see New
England contendlng for free trade and the
South advocating protection But as Kip
ling says, that's another story.
To the point Every Texas town and
city should decide for Itself whether It
a worker on the way; whether 1t shall
leave its future development to chance
and It's own capital, or present It's re
sources and claims to the respectful con
The logic Of Beaumont's situation and
resources predestines great future. Ma
tire has done everything; given every.
II we want Northern aid and partnership
in the work OF rapid development. we
must level the mountains of prejudice ana
ignorance We should inaugirate n cam
paign of education and Texas should he
the subject taught. The object should be
the study OF our mineral resources and
our agricultural and commercial Adaptable
". We should maintain permanent branch
Offices in large Eastern centers Of populd-
tion for the effective PRONUNCIATION of
facts We should bring our town and
State prominently before the public Let
us teach them
Of the best people on earth, II has room for
ha million.
That Beaumont has FIVE railroads and
wants five more
That Beaumont Is on a navigahlc tide
water stream twenty-six miles from good
seaport
rhat De-,
ilrst-class inland pert capable of harbor-
Ing ocean steamers, and that beaumont Is.
aspiring to he first class inland port
That Beaumont oil fields can produce as
much oil as the balance Of the continent
now produces, and as good oil.
That Beaumont wants factories and re
finencs
That its situation is such that 1t can
not easily he bottled up and ruined by any
transportation monopoly or trust in the in
tcrest OF some other monopoly or trust
That Beaumont is contiguous TO the great
Eastern Texas pinery, equal, IL not supe-
rior to any in the world.
That Beaumont wants wooden ware fac
tories.
That Beaumont is contiguous to and sur
rounded by the greatest cotton country in
the world In productiveness. whose sue
cess or failure determines the price Of cot
ton aud cotton goods the world over.
That Beaumont wants cotton mills to
world at rdlcuously low prices, and to
utilize the cotton ut hand Instead Of ship.
ping It to England and buying 1t back at
Tint cotton mill at Beaumont would
mean an enormous saving in the price of
fuel and the price Of raw material
That II would mean an enormous saving
In transportation on both fuel and material
because both are at It's very door,
That the finished product could he sold
~ Texas and exported from Beaumont to
Mexico, the Philippines China and Japan
cheaper than from any other point.
That the cheap living It affords means
That while the rice industry of Jeffer.
son county is in its Infancy Beaumont mills
and ships millions OF bushels.
That we need more rice mills and more
rice planters.
That the sugar cane industry needs to
be developed.
That to the north of Beaumont immense
stores Of iron and coal await the miner
and the manufacturer
That Beaumont ought to be a great
That great as we are. our greater glory
awaits the full development of a country
whose natural resources have yet scarcely
been drawn upon.
That our laws are not hostile to capital
but merely seek to protect the weak from
tyranny and oppression.
Let us invite to Beaumont the New Eng
lander with capital and experience In and
knowledge of the cotton manufacturing in
dustry.
Let us encourage the building of cotton
factories at other Texas points to create
a home market for our oil, and when The
NlchTHHuan cAnal is n fact We may nearly
monopolze the Oriental trade.
Let us ask congress to improve our water
WAYS.
The ordinary board of trade or chamber
OF commerce MS now constituted Is too
weak and narrow Ia its scope and intiu-
ence and spasmcdic In its efforts to ac-
compllsh the work. We want a stronger
more comprehensive and more active or
SANITATION than any yet devised. and above
NIL permanent one. II Is business prop
oSition In which every dollar invested VIII
he returned ten fold
Beaumont needs cotton mill and needs
II now. Respectfully,
c w unwth