Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-01-01

part ObyiAia these difficulties, and
l trust that spirit will soon become
- generally diiiased among our PeO-
pie as 90 completely TeeliS this
ifrsgflaFily aid place as on an
equal footing with other stock ,rais-
ing communities with which We ars
bound 10 eompeie,
Ladies and Gentlemen; l have
now reviewed in = very eursory and
s0meWhat desuhogy manner sOme
Of the Ohlee8 of associations Of this
ehsFatlsF, and in 50 doing have
necessarily anticipated tho benefits,
in part, resulting from them. Per-
nit mo 10 say, however, that l havo
not language 10 paint them in such
glowing terms as that may not be
fully realized. No human tongue
eAh tell nor pen describe the mag
hitudo Of tho beheEis that will DO
secured 10 our people when all
these thing are fully accomplished.
Tho Imagination, N II were, be-
comes oppressed when il attempts
10 scan, by prophetic vision, tho
mighty events about TO turn up in
our history and which begin TO cast
their shadows before them.
Think oftho time when the Trini-
" will bo nayigated TO our city and
Dallas bo made port OF ontry.
When this entire connry shall have
bocn eheckored by railroads, and
tho snortings OF the iron horse shall
DO heard as he bounds by every
hamlet and cross road. Whom telo-
grams will DO received every morn
ing giving us tho latest intelligence
from the mcst distant, as we'll as,
every other portion Of tho Federal
Union and from beyond tho oceans.
When on. lahds shall have been i'm
proved to the highest state Of culti-
vation, and when tho lab0rs of tho
husbandman shall be crowned, not
only with the great staples Of tho
country, but with fruits and luxuries
now imagined to belong only to tho
Tropics. When we shall have been
placed in direct connection with tho
best markets in tho world and when
we will, in groat measure, control
those markets.
When tho genius Of our people
shall have been fully aroused and
their untold wealth shall have
adorded tho country with princcly
residences. When our villages shall
have become cities and our cities
shall have been transformed into
great marts for tho selling and buy
ing of tho commodities, not only OF
this, but Of other countries. When
manufacturing establishments shall
have sprung hpih dilTeroht PARTS Of
tho country, and when the tall stec-
pies of magnificent churches in
every neighborhood shall reflect
back the rays of the rising and set;
ting sun. Whom the eternal tramp,
busy hum ofcommercial life like the
rumbling of distant thunder shall
porpetually roll from Rod Riesf to
the Gulf of Mexico and from the
Sabine to tho Rio Grande. In short
when every man who desires them
may bo rich, happy and contentcd:
These Ladies and Gentlemen nrs
somo of tho results flowing from
such associations as this. These
are some of the legitimate effects OF
such organizations.
know thcro arc those who are skeptical
on this point, and pretend not to under
stand how such associations can effect SO
much, Let me tell such how they effect 50
much. Ladies and gentlemen assemble, Is
al present, froth different parts Of the
country and compete for prizos in each
department, the rules and regulations be-
, ing that the best specimen exhibited id
that particular region carries away tho
prize. The minds Of those who contend
will naturally be aroused to greater effort
and emulation; at each succeeding exhibir
ton the spirit will become contagious and
will finally pervadc all of our people,
There never wns successful podagogpo
that did not practice the sGms PLAZA IT, de-
yelop the latent faculties Of the childrcn
confided to his charge. Men and women
are but grown-up children, and the sans
plat viii win With them; Ytu may tell
me that ii is the RESULT of Innate Aekk ne6a,
/ answer that it i5 hdtrati natite; and II
you wish to get good ont Of it You must
work in accordance with the freaks and
fancies of human nature. Millions Of
failures have been made by trying to work
in opposition to those freaks and fancics
and trying to drive by force. Millions
more will yet be made in the same way
Ii may be doubted that such grand results
could lCW from stich small Beginnings-
But the germ is here, aka; II properly
mana aged, it will continue to grow aud in
crease until an exhibition Of this character,
in this country, will produce ms intense
an excitement and o far moro refined emu
latoa than did tho Olympic games Of an
Glen. Greece or the bloody arenas of I'm
perial Rome, Shakespeare puts into the
mouth Of Brntus these words. "There IS
n tids In the affairs Of men, which, taken
at the flood, leads on 10 fortune The old
&dage that admonishes MS to strike whon
the iron is L6,, means the same thing
sui SO when you SEQ organizations Of this
character springing nP-irrh rue country -yQ;i
may re rardihem as indicntions that The
spin, Of Improvement is moving in the
minds Of We people, that the tide is ap-
rrohr aing : food and then is the time
fsr all 10 ttEika. If you will receive it
A,3 10 ygn. duty it will prove precursor
. taG great revolution in this respect When
ola Nehemiah and bis comrades returned
20 lebuild the walls Of jerusalem il was
, said, The walls were built "for the peopis
had a mind to work" And SO IL our pec-
PIE have nnird to work, these things viii
/ b accomplished.
And, fellow-ciiizens, we can do these
things without foreign aid, though We
would be glad TO have it. l do not care il
the long, black catalogue Of "Lawlessness
and Crime be made as long again and
| twice as black as ever before, and SANDERS
be circulated in every other State OF the
I Union on ours Of 80 damnable character
as wonld make the Devil blush till all hell
turned red, and thus frighten away all
emigration and cut US Of from etery dol
lar Of Northern capitsl, yet We can seeonn-
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