The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-15
AN APPEAL TO THE pOEpLE
Admonished to Join the Com
mercial Club.

To the citizens OF w aAahacule
and Ellis county; Be it known
that we have experienced two pretty
hard years ia the matter of crops,
and many have become discouraged
and sold their property and gone to
other sections TO try their fortunes.
Many others are going though just
whore they know not. Discourage
ment is "a disease when it becomes
eeueTel an emigration follows, and
many families are broken up and
lose out. We have grown selfish
and have neglected important duties
in guarding our interests.
BY united effort we can do much
to benefit our community generally
and thereby each individual will
succeed. our county is yet new
and undeveloped and we have lived
through the hardest time; our coun-
try is becoming settled by "a thrifty
people and there is no reason why
we should not enjoy all the benefits
Of advanced age. But we must all
work, work for the general good and
re~establish self-confidence
Now, cheer up and look around
you. This country will surprise
every one, and no man can stop it
or anticipate the improvements
which will take place within the
next ten years. 1t requires no
prophet TO see that In order for one
to enjoy this great prosperity he
must give ear TO his neigbor, and
listen to the rumbling Of progress
We are in position to enjoy all these
| blessings IL we will organize for il
aud hold the fort. Many do not APP
( preeiate the great number OF real
! estate transactions going on or the
prices being paid for farm lands.
When you hear Of your neighbor
selling his land for $50 or $50 per
acre you viii remark, "pshaw, /
/ have seen the time when / could
have bought the same land for e 90
per acre, but you did not and you
are further from 1t now.
/ We hope You viii not soon be
surprised to hear of farm lands
selling at Sl00 or $50 per acre, but
/ the other fellow wlII own the land.
Bat land is not all Employment is
the key 90 the situation, many enter
( prises await oar united action. We
can again learn the secret of success
tae establishing of confidence at
home,
There are many public enter
. prlses ou tae tapis, but who is liza
charged Certainly not our people,
but others from sections not SO fa-
/ v0red as ours. There will be la
few years electric railroads passing
through every neighorhood in this
blackbelt section Of Texas, and
every farmer will have his mail de-
/ llvered al his home and will have
telephone connections with his
neighbor and the world. Orr mud
roads viii be- converted into mag
uitlceut highways and automobiles
will give the horse "a rest. Our
East Texas iron will be manufac-
tured and worked up here, many
cotton mills will be running, as also
knitting and yarn mills, and tanner
les and shoe shops viii be I'm opera
tion. Every young man VIII find
employment at the age Of the free
school limit and will grow up in
these great industries TO be more
self-sustaining than many Of their
fathers now are, All these things
we will enjoy if we only will IL.
| Then lrdeed IL will be Grand Old
| Texas" ."
So come, every man in the town
and county who has an interest in
! grand old Ellis, to the court house
| next Wednesday evening at7:30 with
a fun determination to do all you
can to advance the interests Of his