The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-18
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Ex G0yenSon iI00bAnD, who Is rop'o.
Tesan, aud who never omlts an
opportunity 10 say something IN II behalf,
q few days ogo was Invited 10 del yer nm adj
dfcss upon tbe opening Of the new Cotton
Exchange at 81. Louis The business men
and the most prominent citizens of the
Mound CITY were out in iull force aud Tie
orator Of the day seemed 90 be IN one Of his
happy veins. The advertisement given by
Ex.GovEGNoR HUBBARD on that occasion 10
Texas was an extensive one, and will no
doSbt NC Of vast benefit to rs. Wetake the
following synopsis or occount OF tue speech
from tbe st. Louis Republican:
"Ho was proud for himself and for his
state to meet them in the splendid temple
which had been dedicated to commerce.
which was a deserved cap-stone III the work
they had done; it marked ,be success of in.
dustry aud OF honorable dealing with the
great extent of territory which had been
made tributary to them. AS he represented
Texas, he could the more congratulate
them, because from mis- State not even The
humblest felt he was strangerin ST. Louis.
His fellow citizens had stood by the count
ers of St. Louis merchants, by the iorges oil
its iron men, and they sent greeting, be-
with honorably. He represented
cot on state, AZ great rival,
| but there should be no yinyidious jealousy
Texas was cosmopolitan above all other
Saies Its people were partly from MIS-
.ouH partly from the great west; they
came from every stream and mountain
! top; it had men from all over the country
Commerce aud trade had no traditions
no coats of arms, no blue blood, but they
went wherever vhey were treated best
"You have been told,'a said the speaker
what Texas is; her past you have read
her present IS before us. What her future is
we NAV conjecture lromthe data of the liv
| ing.present. As you have had TO deal with
Texas, you have always been fra
lternal of course never forgettinH
| to keep your weather eve open TOT
la GOOD point in business. Ap'
plause.] There are strong personal rela
| lions between the two Siaies. You should
| know what ! think of the COTTON trade, the
cattle, the mineral products of Texas
| Merchants, you want to know what I've go'
20 say. Texas has 100000 Of square acres
II is larger lban the states New England
put together; it was greater than England
1t was u country more vast than The empire
of France. 'Bv comparison we learn The
ize OF material objects. If all the states Of
Ohio, Illinois, Delaware, New jersey
Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Yer
mont, New Hampshire and Maine, were
put togetper they would lack some 2,U0C
miles of being as big as Texas: Tue coun
Try has all the varieties of soil. The vast
plains OF the Llauo Es'acado we have al
reid of in our schools days a.
being a burning plain, Sahara where
water never bubbled and leaflets neve
waved. | have been through that country
in the summer too and did not melt. have
,urunk from its pools. 1t was water aud il
wasn't SALTY either On It's surface wave
tall, rich grasses, and of all that territory
a space only 90 miles wide and 80 long il
worth ess, aud even that is good glaZio&
ground. The west of the s,are is tributary
30 you of ST. Louis Chicago, New York
Galveston aud New OreaOs. 10 wboevel
holds ont the olive branch of honest CON
me'ce we shall come. Texas peope mus
be excused for their Boosting. We have q
population of wonderful growth-in 1850 i
had only 2I2,0OO souls, to-day it has every
two members of congress to-day
eleven, and at the latest advices there is {
full list of aspirants. We can fill thest
positions. We've got the men TO IL them
The statistics of the increase in product. II
are more wonderful Than in any other STATE
in he union. Louisiana on lie r'gbt, Mis-
sjuli and Arkansas on the north, Tennes
sse-o'd Tennessee. fuii OF a thousand IRA
30, he Jealous We sprang from their 10 Us
W. are q child of heir hegetting
Why hive we grown? Our land
are rich; We produce everything
hat Is produced in the civilZe'
vprld-wheat, all the cereals and co ton
We have an are for small grain Of 10000
square miles, with, as cenure-poin
Dallas, Crayson, and other counties
The yield Of this spot is greater thai
hat Of Illinois, OHIO and Missouri com
pned. If this spot was fully cultivated, it
grain yield would quadruple the who'll
yield of 1880" The speaker gave the liz
ares for the other cereals, and, III addition
he capacities of the s!ape for cattle, horse
and sheep, sugar, pine aud timber ant
tasty ccttol. KG showed tie vast increas'
ia a few years OF this production. Mucl
lime was spent in explaining how the fai
dealing and honesty of 81. Louis merchaGt
had secured 10 ibem greater part OF. ih
trade of market 700 miles away. lie PIC
| iurrd the vast growth of tie two states II
one decade, and Then in Two decades. IL,
then treated the wesG generally, and spoke
of tbe powe" that was coning into IT
bands. He prophesied that the whirr of th'
wheel aud buzz of The Spiddle would b,
beard in fattories here in st. Louis, ant
south in New Orleans and Calves
ion. He dwet on The poWer q
commerce to obiterate war feeliuGs. HI
paid glowing tribJte to the Jate fhoma
Allen in that connection, and said tha
when monument should be raised owe
his grave there should be written an in
s:ription to the effect that the man hat
united kindred over hundreds of miles, ao'
had connected them with bands. of iron
He paid splendid tribute TO the men VIII
had been instrumental in building anotbe
road, who had done more TO bring the tw
great sections together than all the halanc
of business men, they wee Paramore, Sen
ter, Sloss, Gilkeson, Goldmand and Others
He scared into empyrean heights in hi
peroration. saving that as the years go b!
old men in the southwestern states woul'
know each other well and sit down an'
talk together like neighbors; the younI
men aud the young women would low
each other. "As The streams of the noun
tain shall flow down and mingls in the sea
so shall our people and your People NEE
in the midst Of a splendid power and glor!
i'm the future"