Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-28
HENRY W0ODFIN GRADY
Continued from First Pcgs.

ing taese lonely suo ,srtlD q nav, n,
.hsI u oshlnd the plOw, locking the sua-
80 AZ sAe glory of MS harvest, kn 4
~ p.esutpc The show Is &c the vercure q
10 Il sio-1o friend knew seVeno.ure tina,
,,. ~ ais esrnes: Touch and G id thar
I. MN the message of eood
80 Trough the Passing bretzs AID tie
.psfIs IeaVes-,nE. ne uCu,d In
VEN years, have csrred these ourdeu.
Soo COO. h2.a'hlee, made crap O! $500, GOO,
~ Snu inst from his bounty In. SOU 10
YOU'D naVe rebullded her cities snd re
Soupeu Ase Losses. Yet this hiss been
u.ae, sno While we txu't In his fortune.
p,ause 0p
Whsnce this enormous grovI? FIR
zen Jesrs the world mas been It mace
Inc pIoaeer has now rep,,csd the
soldier. Commerce hes wni,ened new
tess, AND the merchant mas occu DIE d ne v
tlees S.esm hGs made the worli chess
eoarc, on witch .men play
iof markets. OR western whsx;
grover Is made AGO 1sinted 10 L IN don With
me hassian ard the East IGdIan. The
Oalo WOOL grower watches the Australian
saepheFo, snd the oleat CT the now his.
toElc sheep Of Vermont IS answered from
kae steppes OF Asia. The herds that
emerge from tie DUST OF your ANA ra
prelrlss might hear in their psuses the
Aooi beats CT antiDoGesn heros marching
20 meet them. U2der Hullaud's dykes
Inc cheese aud butter mskers fight Amsr.
Esn oalrlss. Cslitorris challenges vine
ciad Fralce. TIE dark continent Is dis
Closed through N shes CT light. There is
competition everywhere. TIE husband
man driven from his market balances
price against s,e;VIsion ara uldercuts
his rival. Tais conf C. often rms psnic
and profit vanlshss. The lows farmer
burning his corn for fuel is not sn uuu
sRs type.
Among this universal oauhic! where
STANDS i1e scu,B? While the producer cf
everything we eat @. wear ia .yery land
is hsnHcg through giqtted markets fJr
bare t1tsteuc5, VIA: of the southern far
mel! II his industrial, as in his pCli,icsl
problem, he is set apart-not in DOUBT,
out In assured independence. Cotton
makes him king Not all the Il Gees Jason
sought Can rival the richness Of this
plsnt, IS II uniuYls its banners. 1! is
gold from the Instant 1t puts forth
IT'S tiny shoot. The shower that whis-
pers TO II IL heard around the world;
saS CoPbpc vi WI III OI kt6 EEcCn kOat
means more to Il ielaud than the advance
OF the Russian army on its A-iatic out
posts, and when lis fibre, current 10
every bank, "a marketed, IL renders bsck
10 the south $3.50 900 000 Every year. Its
seed will yielo $50 OG0 coo worth II oil
to she press aud $4,000, 900 IN food foI
soil CT besst. m.S'ug the stupendous
total CT S450,00O. 600 anuu.! income
f.om this crcp. And now, m
der the Tompk rs patent, from It's
stalk newspaper Is to be made
at GEMS per pCu7d Efwsrd
Atklneoa- o;ce SAID: "If Nv EogiaDo
could grow the cotton p.sUs without the
liEt It would make heE richestc op; l. see
held monopoly Ct cotton I'M sad ssed SIZE
would control the commerce OF the
world" But ls cur mJDnpnly, Threat
encd from EgYpt, Indls S8d Bail, sure
sud permanent LIT the recHrI segR rr
In le72 the south made ) 81, goo bales,
other countries 036 00O-teaCi0g her
rivils little more thai POO 900 osles. Taia
year the southern supply WA 8 000, 900
b.ies; from other sources 100 000-sI
pressed in bales Of 400 pounds eacn. In
spite Of new areas elsewhere, Of fuller
experience, CT better transportation sud
unlimited money spent IN ex2erl
ment, the eupply Ct foreign cotton
hes decreased since 1872 nexrly
1,C0o,C0 bales, while thst Of the south
has increased nesrly s, 600 0C0 bales Fur.
Their ibsn this. SiLcs 1872, population in
Europe has Increased IL per cent, and
cotton consumption II Earops hss in
creased 80 per cent. Sill fur her. Since
1880 cotton consumption in Europe has
increased 2S per cent wool per cent,
AVID has decreased As
for new eress, the ustermost missionary
woos the heather witt q cotton shirt in
one hsnd snd the bible in the other, and
no savage, believe. has ever csen. Con-
yerted 10 one without having II ct put on
the other. TO summarize: Our Amer
lean fibre has Increased lis productness
three told, while it has eeTn the
product OF It's rival decrease one
tn I'd. It has enlarged It's
dominion In the old centers CT population
suppIaating fax and wool, and IL peeps
from tbs satchel Of every business and
religious evangelist that trots the globe.
In three yesrs inc American crop has
increased ], AGO, COO bales, and We. ;her Is
less cotton IN tnls World to day thsu IN
any sipe for twenty years. ffoud sp
plause =. =
The dominion OF cur king is estab-
llshed. Tnis princelY revenue Is assured,
not for q year, out for all the time. II is
the heritage that God gavs US when he
arched our skies, esta5lisbt d our mount
oIps, grit us about with the ocean, tenn
persd the sun shine apd measured the
rain. Ours, AID our children'a, forever.
Not alone 10 cotton, bat in iron does
the south excel. The Hon. EY. n )rtor,
who hcnors this platform with his pres
epce, ones said to me: "An E1gliahmsn
of the highest character predicted that
the Atlantic will be whiteued within our
lives with sais carving American iron
and coal 10 EcglaDd Wnen ne made
that prediction the English MIXERS we're
txheus,irg the coal In long tunnels, above
which the ocsan numbered: Having ores
and coal stored In eSlaustless quantity,
IN such richnege. and IN such s6jus M I'M
that iToE can te made, sHd mshpl.Ctur
ing done cheaper than elsewhere on this
continent, the south is to now command
and a. last control the worlds msiket
for iron. The soR,h now sells iron
through Pittsburg, IN New York. she
has dr.vsn Scotch iron fl rst from the in
terror and finally from American
ports. Within our Ives she viii
cross the A,lsItic erd fulfill the E lglish-
m,u's prophecy. In 1880 the sou5n rnsde
$4,000 tons Of iroL; in 1887, ZOO
IONS She is NV actually bulldog, or
has Il lished this yea-, furnaces that will
produce ,aore than her entire pros NC.
last year. Birmingham alone will pro
duce moro iron in 1889 than the eu;ire
south prodGcsd in 1887 Our cosl supply