Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-13
NEWSPAPERS
OF THE EAST
LAUD TEXAS
Good VIII Tour Brings
Closer Contact With
Big Commercial Cen
ters Of Country

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~ June, " being abundantly shown
hy recent comment By newspapers
and other publications and ~ letters
received 81 the All-Texas Ways and
Means Committee from those sec
tions.
Anew England has been given .
better idea Of Texas and Texans.
writes George ". Clifford, native
Texan who IS now a citizen Of Bog-
ton. and adds that Ne has received
many inquiries from investment
houses about this state since the
visit o. the All-Texas party.
The tour, according 20 the New
York Sun, has served 70 bring the
metropolis and Texas closer to-
aether, and the New York Graphic
declares that such enterprises serve
70 snake a more united nation OF the
United States" The Graphic sug-
gests that a party az New Workers
should tour Texas.
"Such visits are productive q
great good" says the Graphic. They
establish friendly relationships IN
business ~ we'll as a purely social
way. They help one Part ~ the
country 70 recognize the problems
and the ambitions Of other parts
Perhaps" SAYS the New York Sun,
sthe chief bond Of affinity between
New York and Texas is a common
rsstlessness-a common disinclina-
tion 70 be content with things as they
ere. New York ran understand p
state which makes a seaport out Of
an inland city like Houston. causes
Uncle Sam 70 create harbors AZ Point
Isabel and Corpus Christi, turns the
desert Of the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley into q fertile and fecund garden.
replaces the lonrhorn Of the plains
with fine beef cattle which can hold
their " IN the Kansas City and
Chicago markets. pumps ceans Of oil
from its lands. endows &c state uni
versity with one Of the nations fin
eat libraries, fosters county farm
agents and practices crop diversifi-
cation while maintaining the hege-
mcny or King Cotton"
May Surpass New York
The Boston Herald points out that
Texas Is on the way 20 become the
most popul0us state an the union. do
we New ~Englandcrs realize" IL asks,
shat Texas-whose governor has re-
Gently been visiting us-while uni
versaily known az the largest state
IN the Union, stands a good chance
Of becoming the most populous, too :
Watch the trend. In the assignment
OF seats that followed the admission
Of Texas into the Union, and for the
whole decade that followed, Texas
had just two congressional districts,
based upon population, as against
thirty-four in New York. Roughly
speaking. Texas was one-seventeenth
As populous. By the civil war census
Of 1860, Texas came 20 the front with
four congressional districts, against
thirty-one in New York. "A little
more than one-cighth az popuious.
The next census stood five Texans
70 thirty-three New Workers. a little
better than one-sixth. The decad
of the eighties gave Texas III TO New
York's 81. close to one-third; the
next census stood AZ Texans 10 81
New Workers. Then came is Texans
to 81 New Workers.. Now il is IS
Texas seats 70 43 for New York. The
disparity in area Is 40 great as 70
give Texas q wonderful opportunity.
II has PCS. GOO square miles against
New York's 10000. II Texas were
one.fffth as thicklv settled as New
York pcr square mile. II would have
the larger population. Is that ratio
impossible al achievement? The
Texans say Mo-"
The New York Times remarks that
the object AZ the All-Texas Special
Good Mil Tour was TO %acquaint IL
ranrial and manufacturing ccntcrs
Of the East with the imperial re-
sources Of Texas and 20 stress the
interderenaence which is 20 obvious
that Il Is often forgotten" Comment
Inc IL continues. The trade bal
ance az the Union II 10 finely adjust
I'd that New York could not be 50
great as III is without Texas. nor
could Texas realize rs commercial
Importance without New York e.
The more that Is done ~ emphasize
and clarity this relationship the bet
ter for the two American empires.
Capital Sees Opportunities
Northern capital exclaims the
NeR York American. NJ AZ editorial
which appeared IN ell Hearst revs-
papsrs throughout the county. us
1ust learning the opportunities 70
manufacture raw materials where
they are grown. II would he a good
thing for the country w continues.
If she investment bankers could be
induced "a visualize the wonderful
or Texas. There they
would find IN a single state ~ en-
rire greater IN area than Germany
before the waf sheered her. and IN
ffnifely richer I'm natural
there they would find five million
sll-Amerean people. = blend Of the
South, the stock that wrestsd the re-
public ~ Texas from Nexicc, ard
immigration from the midwest Il
IN A race and An environment r. FRO
duce independence, industry. vision.
Perhaps no state in the Union has
~ many strings 70 fts how as Tex
a.. She leads all states IA cotton.
wool. livestock and oil. Her known
Ell deposits are 20 huge that they
ewceed an calculations. and II con
frolied will drown our eleven billion
dollar 81 industry. The state rais
e. every known agricultural product
~ fhe country, from winter wheat
- the wind-swept plains 20 semi
~tropicsl fruits and grains IN the r.
rtrnted delta or the Rio Grsnee. ~
lnr in the latitude q Miami. North
ern capital Is Just learning the op-
rortunifies 70 manufacture these
raw materials where they are grown.
Florr mills. meat products. reffr-
eries, leather goods. and above ak
cotton and wooden goods beckon 70
~ with Astounding opportunities"
when viii the East get over its
fond illusion that Rexas - still a
state " cowboys, stud poker and
knndits - asks the New York Tele-
erarn. AS Governor Moody told Bos-
fon rewspapermen. II they were e
Tan asleep in their own town and
unke up tomorrow IN Dallas, Hous-
eon or any other large Texas city.
thew would find themselves sur
rounded by taller buildings than they
were accustomed 20 see. He might
have added thaf the buildings would
have d less dingy appearance. that
to street airs would BE- cleaner,
that ordinary people would re- liv-
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