Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-15

been weaving mighty fabrics, through whose
durability the builders have hoped TO attain
fame and earthly Immortality, But these en-
during structures of the past are not the monu-
ments Of o true civilization.
The temples Of India, the monuments OF the
Nile the ruins Of Peru are bus the footprints OF
sbarbaric power and Rbjeet slavery. These relics
OF the ages are eloquent only OF mans ambition
and myriads of slaves. War and its trlumphs
has sprinkled the ages with statues, monuments
and triumphal arches, but IL has been left for
this age to erect palaces that glorify no conquest
Of the sword.
honor Of building the first Palace that should
epitomize and typify the entire produce and the
industry of a state
this building, 81 asp the idea that called it
into life, realize that it is the conception Of
genius, while the handiwork shows the touch OF
artistic skill, and the patient, loving hand Of
woman.
As we wander in corridor and aisle, as we look
up to turret and dome, we see everywhere
the products OF the smiling fields of Texas, and
over all these floats the fragrance of flowers and
spring and the richer breath Of harvest.
To visit in detail the gorgeous display of
wealth is TO journey through the great Lone
Star state. No home-seeker can resist the rich
ness and variety here displayed. Every taste
can be gratihed, every desire filled. To the
stranger it is revelation. Could the wondrons
possibilities of your soil and climate be known
to stru cycling thousands through the East and
North, there would start tide OF emigration TO
ward happy Texas that would be like the moving
of the nation.
TeXaS Ike Colorado, has often to cOnteuu
with the reputation of its infancy. 1t is no un-
usual thing to receive letters from the so-c2lled
centers of culture in the East asking If 1t
would be safe for peaceable citizen 70 visit COL
visit to the West involves desperate chance OF
losing the scalp. and If by luck or bravery the
red man is avoided there is the hazard OF the
knife AID the bullet Of the desperate to escape.
So with Texas, the myths, traditions and exag-
gerations, which Tor generation have been cur
rent about the reckless character OF the Texan,
hav bea accented history.
1t has been but few years since I thought OF
Texas a place where there gathered, as
around David in the Wilderness, every one that
VISA in distress, and every one that was in debt,
and every one that was discon tented. You
have but to traverse your vast expanse, to see
the growing villages, the expanding eltles' ana
to note the prosperity that everywhere pre-
walls to see the churches and schoolhouses,
the railroads and the commerce, to look upon
this scene and all your impressions and preiu-
dices take wings and vanish as the illusions OF
a dream. State and citizens are free from the
chains of debu. Nowhere is there distress, no.
where is there discomfort. No more can the
truth compare the citizens OF Texas with those
who gathered around the standard OF David;
rather will the stranger give thanks that his
steps have been guided into such fair land and
to him will come the words OF the prophet:
For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into e
good land, land OF brooks of water, of fount-
aims and depths that spring out Of valleys ana
hills, land of wheat and barley and vines, hg
trees and pomegranates. land OF oil, olive and
honey land wherein thou shalt eat bread
without scarceness, q land whose stones are iron
and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
mathematical Of this Biblical picture OF comfort
and plenty is this marvellous Palace, which rivals
in beauty those magic palaces through which IN
youth we wandered and dreamed with Alladln
and his wonderful lamp. 1t is creation that
could be built only in land of profusion and in
city of surprising energy and enterprise ana
under the leadership OF man like Capt Pad
dock. Everywhere is his genius and ability as
an Organizer manifest. 1T is worthy of Texas,
worthy OF Fort Worth, worthy OF Paddock; an
investment that will bring dividends to state
and city. Like the chameleon, man takes color
from his surroundings.
Living in the midst Of such e1panse and vast
ness as touch es his life all sides, the Texan
naturally revels in large enterprises, in magnlt.
cent palaces. in stupendous majorities. Amid
such environments, he cannot help thinking
that his state is giant among nations and him
self Goliah among men.
Were I Texan, my enthusiasm would equal
the extravagance of Capt. Paddock. who. at
dinner in New York, listened to an Englishman,
who proposed this sentiment; Here is to
England, bounded upon the north by the north
pole, on the south by the south pole, on the
east by the rising and on the west by the settl ng
sum- Unabashed by this expansive claim,
our friend Paddock arose and invited
his companions to come to 4 country where they
combining limits, and asked them to drink to the
toast: "Here is TO Texas, q land bounded on
the north by the aurora borealis, on the south
by the procession of the equiroxes, on the east
by primeval chaos and on the west by the day OF
Judgment" Ordinary figures do not grasp your
possibilities. You might repeat the kingly
boast Of one of the Pharaohs, when asked the
extent of his dominion, said: HE placed his
frontier where he pleased
When we consider the stupendous aggregate
OF Texas products to-day and compare the acres
that are cultivated with the vast extent OF terri
tory that is untouched by man or plow,we real
ize that it takes wider vision to take IN her
destiny than will cover the horizon of any other
terminate are we whose lines of life have
been cast in the West and in the last years Of
this century. Indeed, Times noblest offspring
was the last .
and nations, that the building up OF every new
state is q part of a grand scheme OF Him who di-
reefs the course of stars, whose purpose is the
ultimate happiness and redemption of man.
With DeTocqueville, believe ''that the great
Westward movement of humanity has all of the
sublimity of a proyidential event. 1t is like
deiuge OF men rising unabatedly and moving
onward as by the hand OF God. ~
The same supreme mind that guided the steps
of the children of Islael has directed the career
of this nation. 1t was no human power that
protected the Maydow9r and the Pilgrims from
the peril of storm and wilderness. IL was the
Almighty hand that led the armies OF the revo-
luton to victory. The same Omnipotent design
that made San Jacinto one OF the epoch-making
battles of mankind, and gave to Texas an endur
ing fame, as the home Of sublime courage aud
years ago THAT all things Of heavenly origin,
like the sun, move Westward. -
DR.. Price, an Englishman OF the last century,
said ''he could see in America a rising empire,
extended over an immense continent, without
mobiles aud without kings
John Adams looked into the future and wrote:
t'The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends.
An empire rises where the sun descends. In
these prophesies, Texas, Colorado, California
and the West have place. This is culminst-
ing age; the westward migration Of nations has
fulfilled its mission; the limit OF the West has
been reached; the circle has been completed;
beyond lies the East. From the domain OF the
American flag the frontier has vanished, upon
American soil the race OF the pioneer Is run. 1t
is no longer westward but southwark the march
OF empire takes its way. 1t Ia into the land OF
Montezume, into the mysterious lands Grim
soned by the crimes of Cortez and PizRrfo that
the restless spirit of American enterprise and
adventure must now seek field OF activity.
To this new land Of conquest Texas holds the
door and from the developmenrof these strug-
Cling nations there will flow an overwhelming
stream of golden tribute. Thus is fate weaving
a radiant destiny, Dat to be worthy OF great
future your career must be guided by the WIS
dom OF patriarch, the courage OF Houston
and the patriotism of a Jackson. The danger
o. our age is speed. In many ways this genera
ton is fast. In the span of q short life Texas
and Colorado have gained that which IL took
from the most primitive won the highest condi-
ton Of civilization.
The degrees OF evolution have been the same,
but with you the periods have been shorter but
more intense. The progress of the past no
longer satisfies. To accelerate the pace the fu-
ture is often discounted. To keep time with the
shirt OF extravaganza and speculation, much of
the fairest domain has been burdened with debt.
Every Texan SHOULD bow his knee and give
thanks to the great statesman who laid such
wise and broad foundation for empireship and
free from the curse OF debt and mortgage. May
.-o,,r rgts-aue 40 farnoers- maintain