The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-14

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Our increase in exports and imports. tor
eig9 and coast-wise, is unparalleled in
modern States.
Look at Galveston alone! Her exports
In 1919 were 500 226, SEQ Her imports
In 1870 were SS' O59, $40 Her imports in
coffee from Brazil, from 1871 to 1875, was
81 o42'STl. Since, in 1875, We have be-
gun to ship abroad grain and hogs and
our industries have so wonderfully devel-
oped. our imports of life sustaining pro
ducts have fallen below our exports. and
Will 80 continue What is true of Calves
ton, is, in the same proportion, true of
Houston, Dallas. Jefferson, Austin, San
Antonio, the great trade centres of Texas.
The population of Texas, in 1850. was
2l2, 600; in 1860, 900 900; in 1870. Sls.-
900; in 1876, 1000, 900. .- .t -st
From official estimates of our late Immi
grafton Bureau, our annual increase of non.
ulation, from immigration alone, is a QUAR-.
ter of a million of people. How lonO will
1t take US To march abreast, and % the
front even, of the great States of the Union 2
The great State of New York has about
3 600, 600, and Pennsylvania about 8, $780,
600 population. In five years we will over
take the ''old Keystone" and in ten years
stride alongside the great metropolitan
State of the Unionl
In the next decade we will have over
six millions of Inhabitants standing senti
mel within our gates. To her elder sisters,
who are outstripped by US in the race,
Texas shall, in that day of her power, ex-
tend her strong arm and warm heart clock
ing shield TO shield, !" rs our fathers did at
Bunker Hill, Y orktown' and San Jacintol
~, MORAL ADVANCEMENT OF TEXAS.
1t IS with pride that l announce, Mr..
President, to the American people, that
Texas Is neither penal colony nor Bota-
ny I1sy. Nowhere on this continent does
thee exist q, greater respect for religion
ana law than In my long abused State.
Not only Is the "scboolmaster abrosd, I"
but for forty years of our history the hum
BILE and faithful ministers of the Cross
''cried aloud in the wilderness" in the
name of the Master. have before me, sir.
the actual statistics of her moral and Chris
tian progress. All the Protestant and Cath
Ole creeds have erected there an altar to
God. There are, this day, 10000 Baptist
70, 900 Methodist Episco-
pal; 5000 Old School Presbyterians; 5000
Protestant Episcopal; 1000 Disciples of
Christ; Cumberland Presbyt, rian, 1000 :;
Methodist Protestant, 1000; and there are
also 140, 900 Catholic population In Texas.
There are 1000 preachers of the gospel,
and 30, 900 Sundsy-school scholars, who,
IN the brightness Of childhood, each Sab
bath morning, are learning ''to remember
their Creator in the days of their youth"
Will you tell me sir, after this, that
Texas, which has $50, 600 Christian wor-
shippers, devoted men and pious women
praying for her salvation, Is not the peer
of all her sisterhood in res oect to divine
and human laws2 Don't listen, my coun-
trymen, to the envenomeu slang of the
hustiDgs and the promptings of blind and
fanatlcism! Come among us,
to our churches, to our homes, to our fire.
sides, in the busy fields, on our exposed
frontiers, anylohere, ecerytohere. from the
palace to the cabin, and you will return
to your own gallant people, telling them
that we have civilization, a hospitality,
and respect for law, alike the pride and
glory OF a commonwealth. That we have
lswless men, who now aud then kill and
murder; that on our exposed borders,
thInly populated, are sometimes found
turbulent and desperate men from the
older States, it most true. 1t is an ele-
ment of all new countries and should be,
moral force of the people, aud sustained if
need be by the strong arm of Legislative
and Executive power. But, Texas Is her
self loyal to law and order, extending as
strong shield and as safe protection To
the citizens as any other State in the whole
American Union.
PROSPECTIVE SOURCES OF WEALTH.
l have not spoken at length of our min
eral resources oil our immense forests, of
our best lumber for commerce in the world,
or of that not far distant future when the
great new west" of which st. Louis and
Kansas City are the heart centers, shall fud
their nearest and most proper ocean outlet
through Texas seaports. We are at Gil.
weston, Sabine Pas and Houston, 900
miles, by rail, nearer to this. magnificent
grain growing secti IN of the Uuion than
is Boston or New. York. Cotton and sugar
and grain seek the nearest routes to the
sea. Why may we not compete for this
trade2 We are now grasping each other
with iron hands, and to-day the trade be-
tween ST. L Iuis, Kansas and the West,
with Texas, is counted by millions, which
was but nominal ten Years ago., When the
bars, at Galveston shall receive, in appro-
priat!ons, only, 'ssheer justice" from the
government; when ocean steamships shall,
as they will, land at II pston. Texas ports
ptu handle the great grain trade of the
West IN. shipment to Europe and S nth
America. Our iron and copper and coal
tei DIS wall, ere long, yield source of wealth
riysling Pennsylvania. or, Europe perhaps.
r,4 l. l EMIGRATION AND CELEBRATION fsr
Oh Texas invites the emIgrant to come hith-
er, and from whatever land--whether white
or black, Republican or Democrat, he will
be met at the threshold by genial and hon.
est welcome. Let me say TO the young man.
and the old man, and fair daughters Of the
older States, we would not ask you to leave
the aged mother who rocked your cradle or
the ripper ciyiliz ,tiQI amid the holy memo
mes OF native land; but this we DO an
pounee, that il you must seek in other lands
fortune and home, Texas, with traditional
hospitality, extends her warm grasp, with
open doors, in advance, through one of her
chosen officers Of state. What care We for
your political opinions, or under what flag
you have Fought z xas wants men, honest
men. with big hearts and strong arms, to
populate her wilderness and prairie, with
freedom to vote OF to speak, as il 'snative
and TO the manor born,n They shall wor-
ship God on their coming under their own
vine and fg tree, and pone dare TO molest
or make them afraid. Why, sire, when you
are told that We dislike for our Northern
brethren to immigrate lIiIher, il is q base
slarder on brave aud generous people.
Mr. President the blood Of the North and
the great West, IS we'll as of the South,
mIngles in our veins, and was shed freely
fot Us in our early struggles. The Faith
ers Of fexas,n the patriotic Austins, were
from Connecticut Our FIRST president Of
the republic was from New England Ohio
sent to the struggling army of Houston In
'So company of gallant soldiers; and the
noble women of Cincinnati-God bless
their daughters heard our vail and gave
70 the Texan army that historic battery Of
artillery known Is the Irwin Sisters"
whose guns Numbered for liberty at San
Jacinto. On the monument which staods
in the vestibule Of the Capitol, made Of the
blood stained stones Of the, Alamo, are in
scFi6ed hoss Of names Of the heroic and
martyred dead, who we're from the West,
and from the North, and from New Eng
land.
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