Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-15
THE WEEKLY GAzETTE FORT WORTH TEAS THURsDAY.

the currents of trade viii flow once more In their
legitimate chsnuels, sddingto the value Of every
field and every herd.
Like the black Britons Of old, an American
would, to meet foreign foe, wade ont TO sea
that he might the sooner tear him from limb TO
Let our people halt in their electric rush long
enough TO chain with legal bonds this genii OF
speculation which makes constant inTasions
Western people live in the future, they revel
In visions Of wealth 20 be won, of smbition to be
satisfied. No thought for the past. No time to
develop and enjoy the present. Even here In
Texas, with all it's wealth of heroic memories. L
have yet to hear from Texas lips, either in
who tore this great empire from the hands OF ty-
ranny and dedicated it to liberty. In the fade
less glory of their splendid achievements the
heroes of the Odessy and the Iliad are collapsed:
Poetry and romance cannot weave deeds OF
heroism that surpass the lives Of these simple
but courageous men. How the blood of the
true Texan must tingle as he recounts the sacri-
fees of the past. So young in years, so rich in
patriotic martyrdom. Baptized in the rich, red
blood of such men from this soil should spring
valiant race. From the blood OF Travis, Bowie,
Crockett, Evans and the many martyrs there
should grow perennial sentiments of patriotic
devotion upon the shield of Texas glory, upon
the proudest column in the temple of American
heroes their names should be woven in howers
of as divine hue and fragrance as sprsng into
beauteous life upon the Australian hill when
touched by the elixir of youth wasted by Bull
wer's mysterious hero.
we cherish wore the raiment of the wilderness
and knew not the polish of civilizations capt.
tails. yet from their rugged honesty and integrity
of character the most polished and refined idols
of modern society can draw valuable lessons.
In themselves have never yet been able to see
much wisdom in high hat or much greatness
in a swsllow-tail coat.
In a contest of true virtue give me the sterl-
ing qualities. the manly chiyalry Of a Houston
or Crockett rather than the peculiar attain
ments Of some modern Tallyrand or D. Israeli.
Before the great White Throne some of the
rough builders of these Western empires can
stand with open hearts. As we change from the
pioneer ways of our fathers there will be losses
as well as gains: primitive life had its hard
ships, but it had its virtues, and cardinal vir-
tues they were.
The greatness OF our country has been nour-
ished in the log cabin; in the cottage has been
born our greatest statesmen-the singing OF the
spinning wheel the first music that broke upon
their infant ears.
The morality of the log cabin and spinning
wheel age is safer guide for free people than
tricity. John Bright said: ''Palaces, castles,
great halls. stately mansions, do not make q
nation. The nation in every country dwells in
the cottage" While true, we try to get as far
away from log cabin days as possible, yet the
time will come when in the mighty cities that
will be built and amid the treasures that will be
accumulated, our .posterity will look back
with longing and envy to the print
tive days OF their fathers; they will
regret those times when their ances TOTS looked
upon virgin land and turned the burrows Of
virgin soil, and broke with the falling AK the
solitude Of virgin forest. After all, it is the