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1t will be remembered that
something like a year ago, at
the invitation of Governor
Sayers and the legislature the
Merchant S Association of New
York and the Chamber of Com
merce sent a committee consist
ing of thirty representative
business men of that city to
visit Texas in order that they
might become better acquainted
with our people and possibili-
ties with view of investing
more capital here and helping
to develop our state.
The report of this committee
has been published and is brim
full of intensely interesting
reading matter. We quote be-
low some things said of our ed
ucational institutions:
What struck your committee
most surprisingly during their visit
was the high state OF advancement
noticed in many OF these schools, so
that as regards scholarship and ed
ucation in nearly every branch the
schools throughout Texas compared
very favorably with the schools of
our Northern States. 1t is also evil
dent that the general advancement
is far more rapid in Texas than in
the North, so that it seems not at
all improbable that, with their mag
nificent school fund, they may soon
even surpass In excellence our schools
in the North. The State School
Fund of Texas is very large, and, in
fact, there is no other state in the
Union that can compare with it.
The amount of this enormous school
fund. as taken from the official and
authoritative State Department of
Education approXimates S42,O0O,0O
OF this amount about one-half is in
vested in bonds and other income
bearing investments and about one
half is represented by land owned by
the School Board an area of about
twenty millions OF acres, exceeding
that OF the entire state Of Pennsyl-
vania.
Texans have every reason to be
proud of the immense school fund,
which guarantees free education to
every boy and girl throughout the
State. 1t might be well, as it seems
to us, II during child hood education
was compulsory in Texas, as it is
now in the Eastern and Northern
States. Possibly, owing to the fact
that the children mature at an earli-
er age in the South thanin the North,
the limit should be from to II in
instead of from l. to II as it is in the
North. But we doubt not this will
soon be the case, and it well may be,
for she has a fund for this purpose"
1--WE found the School Board and
the trustees and members of the
school committees always ready to
assist and aid us in our endeavors
to get at the educational status of
the State. They are deservedly
proud OF their fine showing in regard
to school-hOuses, the vast array OF
good school-teachers and the grow
ing interest displayed by all those
connected with education through
out the State. Indeed, it is not too
much to say that the school fund of
the Lone Star State isgreater in pro-
portion even to the size OF the State
than that of any other State of the
Union, and it must be remembered
that the State of Texas is a vast en-
pire in itself, larger than all New |
England with New York and Penn
sylvania combined.
"Daniel Webster. in his great |
speech of the 7th OF March, 1850, by a
bold figure OF speech, speaking of
Texas, declared it $50 vast that a
bird could not fly over it in u week"
This State alone is five times as large
as the entire British Isles, and equal
to thirty-four States, each the size of
1t is larger than
the whole of France, and, incredible
as it may seem, it is nevertheless
true that ii the entire living popula-
ton of the globe-fourteen hundred
divided into families OF
five persons each all OF those families