San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-03
AR COUNTRY'S PRIDE.
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f''''''s Scream OF the American Eagle.


rom Fourth of July Grafton by Pat DOnan.
M other lands boast OF their great
;,srsp We could take up all their
v;,o0 and Thamses, their yellow III
-, castled Rhines and beautiful blue
n,rubes. by their little ends, and
omntv them into our majestic Missis-
.;rnis and Missouris, Amoz >ns, Sas'
,a,cbewans aud De Ia Platas, without
making rise enough to lift an Indian
aa.boat off u sandbm. Do they brag
- tbeir seas and lakes? We could
.nill all their puny Caspians and Azovs,
their Dead Seas, Nyanzas and Maeiores
into our mighty Superiors, .Michigans,
Fries and Ontarios, aud scarcely pro-
,uce ripple on their pebbly brims to
wash away the eighteen-inch footprints
on the sands of time" lett BY the fairy
like slipper of st. Louis or Chicago
girl. Do they pirate of their romantic
scenery? We have thousand jewell
like lakes that would make all their
Wanted Comos, Genevas and Killar-
news hide their faces in aveil of frieudly
fog. The thunder of our Niagara
browns out the feeble murmur of all
their catalacts, while the awful crags
and canyons of our Yosemite and yell
lowstone,
THE PRISMATIC GLITTER AND DASH
of our st. Anthonys and Minnehahas,
and the lonely grandeur O. our horizon
fenced prairies, boundless oceans of
billowy verdure, dwarf to insipidity the
most famous scenes of Switzerland and
Italy, eclipse the wonders and glories
of the Arabian Nights, and defy all the
skill OF poets pen and artists pencil to
depict the veriest atom of their sublim-
ity and their loveliness. Do they
prattle about their AItnas and Vesuvi-
uses? With our noses turning somer-
saults of inefable contempt clear over
our heads, we thunder forth our Coto.
paxis, Popocatapetals, Chimborazos and
score of other jaw breakers whose
very names alone are too huge for COM
mon tongues-G am aware that some of
the specimens of national prodigious-
ness that have mentioned do not ex.
actly belong to us yet; but they belong
to our next door neighbors who are not
as strong as we are, and TO our glori.
ously Yankee spirit, where or what is
the difference?O Do other lands and
nations talk of their mines of Jewels
and gold? We answer with the ex-
haustless bonanzas of California, Col
orado. Dakota and New Mexico, where
mountains of gold and silver ore chal-
lenge the skies, and where the cease
less thunder of the worlds great bullion
mills resound in the yet warm air of the
Rocky Mountain grizzly bear. Do
they rave of the harvest fields of Ger
many and Britain and the vine clad
hills of France? We show them half
hemisphere, with soils and climates as
varied as the tastes of men, and with
capacities for production as boundless
as the needs of men; yielding every
thing cereal, vegetable, animal, textile
and mineral, agricultural, horticultural,
geological, geological, genealogical,
piscatorial and ornitholo gical, ovine,
bovine, capricornine, equine and asin-
ine-the last including most of our al
legged statesman-that all the wants of
all the races, tribes, kindreds and
tongues of earth can ever require. The
sun in heaven, in all his grand rounds
since "the evening and the morning
were the first day." never looked down
on moro magnificent domain a fresh
and glorious half world, grand in all its
adornments, resting like vast emerald
breastpin upon the bose of four
great oceans. It is the broadcast land
ever given to any people, the grandest
and most beautiful, the most varied in
Its productions, and the most unlimited
IN its capabilities and its future.
And Americans were and are the pee
pie for it-cosmopolitan,
THE RACE OF RACES
mlngling in their veins the blood OF all
other nations, and combining in them
selves the good qualities of all-the
sturdy manhood, courage and patriot
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