The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-11-26
Plain Talk In ,rexa-.

The address Of Lieut.. Gov. Hubbard
at the Agricultural Fair at Waco, Texas.
on the 29th ult., was so full Of timely
and valuable comm0n-sense that it Is
worthy of notice. Instead of INDUCING
in state rhodomontade about the sunny
South and the Lost Cause, the speaker
cried Rotate your crops, horizontalize
+" your hills, drain and underdraiu
I" You have soil, said lhe Lieut.. Gov
ernor, "that can produce corn aud all the
g cereals, cotton, sugar and various mi
" nor crops. You have innumerable
" herds of cattle" With such priceless
facilities why Il Texas in debt F'by the
million p 1t Is because Texas does not
know how to diversity. 1t is because
the cry Of Texans is always COTTON cot
@ ton cotton !" So the State annually
pays s., 900, goo when she might export
80 900, 600. She sends to Missouri for
her -four, when she nigh grow more
g grain than al the North West combin-
" ed" When Texas has soil peculiarly
fitted for cotton culture, she has been
selling "a priceless heritage for a mess of
potage." Why shouldn't she have cot
ton factories Of her OWN Wv should
she 90 on selling So, 900, 900 worth Of
hides and buying 80, 900, 600 worth Of
shoes p selling $1,000, 900 worth of
beef and burying SO, 900, 900 worth of
bacon? Why shouldn't her people, as the
Lieut.. Governor puts it, Give at home p
Why shouldn't It railway connect the
piueries of Texas, which could furnish
lumber to rebuild London after hun
g bred days confiagrati0n, with Central
s. Texas, with its grain, its cotton, and
rs cattle p Texas has an acre Of
about 30 600 square miles, while France
has only 250, GOO; yet France has 81. O00.
600 inhabitants-Texa5 bat 1.25O. 900 :
she emphatically wants people They
are coming from despoiled Louisiana,
. crushed Alabama coming at the rate
Of IL 900 a month. Last year over =
million of acres were brought into cultiva
ton. This year it will be more-that is,
if land IS sold 1. reasonable price, and
corn also Texas wants yankee labor.
" German labor, English labor, Republic
g can labor; and above all she wants al
d" laborers her own brothers across the
q" Mississippi. ''Texas wants education ,
adds the speaker and then he sound.
the keystone of his address. "Prate les,
at politics !" says he
There could not be more sensible ad
vice than was given upon this point Of
{" politics to those Texan farmers then
and there assembled. "a spirit of rever
&c ence for the law and order" wa.
inculcated. The danger of the mob and
of all manner Of violence was pointed out.
Better times for the South were promised
81 believe" said Mr. Hubbard, utterino
prophecy which seems already upon the
Of t4lt
=" woe come up from despairng States,
. that the masses are determined to eject
g organized corruption from high places
" and the country of Washington with It's
g associations Of the happier past, will bt
% restored
1T would not pluck single star.
says the orator, ''from the flag that float
. ed over over our ancestors and us.
This was the language addressed by Z
Southern speaker to Southern crowd II
1874; and it was received, we are told
. with great satisfaction" Then, though
a denunciation of whining, sickly dema
" gogues" was uttered with fervid force
nobody spoke Of lynching the orator. I
is evident that he took 1t for granted tina
he was before honest, sensible, well mean
ing men The character Of the address
youches for the character Of its auditors
Aua lids was in Texas State whicI
ou' few ye1rs ago hal Il characte
w5i-h il Is unnecessary for Us to describe
Evidently Texas is producing now some
thing better than bowie knives, horne,
frogs, and fever it is producing men
u would be strange If this State, born 0
u.ra southern intatuation, should TAX
the lead IN Southern restoration upoI
sound principles of political economy an,
OF public and social morality.