The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-02-07
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OF that for Chtcago's intelligence
Running into the city We PARSED
cotton yard on which were several
hundred bales OF cotton lying on The
ground. enclosed rs wire fence. but
the thing that impressed the Chicago
an was not the wastefulneas of such
practice. but the ease with which one
or more bales could be stolen. car
vied 10 The next town and sold Not
withaauding my explanation that
sach a thing was next 10 impossible
and that when done the thief was al
WAYS caught he elung tenaclously Ia
the idea that It could be successfully
done The white-faccd Hereford
cattle In the pastures. as mild man
nered beast rs grows. was the cause
OF the question from one OF the younf,
men direct to me Are these Wild
cattle2"
Now all these things are common
| place In themselves. bnt they seree
to emphasize two facts Cd The
people of the North and East know
little of Texas. Texas people. Texas
conditions or Texas possibilities. t2)
That we are doing very little to make
| our stale al lAN itNpdi'No hhS ~ ~
those people. We wonder why East
ern capital, which goes begging In the
East at per cent, does not seek in
vestment In the southwest where 10
Is per cent can be easily realized,
unmindful of the fact that eastern
capitalists know very little of US, our
conditions, possibilities and resonrc-
es. and that little is, more often than
otherwise, INSTRUMENTATION as damag-
ing as IL ia untrue.
None of these men mentioned are
millionaires; some are trusted en-
ployes. some are business men in a
small way. others are men of indie
pendent means looking about the
country. What information they
might gain about Texas was limited
to the knowledge of any Texan with
whom they should chance to fall In,
and who was sufficiently preserving
to puncture the shell of their native
reserve and pour in that knowledge
through the opening. While we may
pride ourselves that I'VE know more
of them than they know of us we
have ample cause to be ashamed that
our lack of enterprise and progressive
spirit is largely responsible for the
ignorance that prevails north and
east concerning Texas
At Pecos ! met n gentleman from
Washington state who was coming
10 Carlsbad. CHANGING over my copy
of the Dallas News and impressed
with it as a newspaper he asked:
whats the population Of Dallas?'
When told 10000 he expressed sur
prise. Now why should any intelli-
gent man he surpassed that Texas
has a city of so, 900 people? Thus
it is the country over. Ask any man
who travels north, east, or west and
he will tell you a similar story. A
few years ago | called on an advertis-
| ing agency in Chicago with whom
my papers had business transactions
I had letter Of personal introduc
ton to the head of the firm He re
ceived me pleasantly How far ar
you from BALLAST" was the frs
question. do YOU raise cotton
your section?" | collapsed. | Wa
under the impression that every ma
whose business required him to kno'
| the conditions existing in all local
ties where he did business knew tina
| Waxahachie was the center of tn
| cotton industry of the state, but m,'
while we VINO live there and love tn.
old town think she is the biegeS
/ town on the map, when We get AVA
/ from home we find thcr people vii
ask with n kind of where-did-I-
near-that-uame. where is WaNa
( -you-call-it?
Waxahachie needs to wake up
stretch herself as a strong man abou
to run a race: find out something o
her own possibilities, put that in
few hundred thousand booklets an
send them broadcast over the country
What's the use Of a Commercial Gu
If it does nothing further than elet
officers. set date for next meetin
; and adjourn Some one told N
when at home recently that a club ha
been organized, but I'm wager Il
Z cigars for the whole organiZatiC
y against % ticket home that the clr
- hasn't even had stationery print'
on which 90 answer an inquiry as
B. whether peanut raising Is profi'ah
Al iu Ellis county
on. wake mp, SO man ever ear
D. cd % dollar Whir ne slept.
NJ W j. Il.
oh titS Council Meeting.
The regular monthly meeting