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

has brought fruit. Give deep water facilities
and the guaranteed integrity OF silver as the
money OF the people, and then viii every pro-
duct represented in this Palace and in the min
eral palace, receive an increase in value that
win send wave Of prosperity over this Western
| land that viii place plenty in every home and
| gratitude in every heart.
The past and present in Texas are so near IN
| years that the sacrifice OF the past should make
more intense the happiness OF the present /
never see field Of waving corn In spring or
granary Of golden ears in fall that 1t does not
recall the memorable morning after San "a.
wounded general, before him stood the defeated
and captured Mexican commander. The Mexi-
can said to Gen. Houston; Had my REIN
forcements arrived the result would have been
different % ''Sir, - replied the wounded gen.
eral, do not ever expect to conquer men fight
ing for freedom" From his POCKET Houston
pulled handful Of corn and said: do not ex-
pect to defeat an army whose general
can make four days march with an ear OF corn
and pressed around their leader and asked that
to them be given the corn, so that they might
plant It and call it Houston corn. Take It, said
Houston, divide it and plant it. May you be as
good farmers as you have been brave soldiers.
Call it not Houston but San Jacinto corn, SO as
to remind you of your own bravery. Perhaps
some OF the corn that glistens in figures of art,
beauty and sentiment around us came from the
very kernels planted by the heroes OF San ia
cinto. Happy Texas, where in spring the wav
ing corn of Thousand fields tells the story OF
prosperity and OF heroic deeds. Happy Texas.
where in autumn the rustling of the golden
of plenty and of Texas valor.
This scene OF profusion and magnifcence may
be so common to the Texan as to excite no sem
timent other than pride, but to the heart OF the
stranger who looks upon these splendors there
comes q deep emotion of wonder, and to his
lips the lines of Byron when he first stood be-
meath the soaring grandeur of St. Peters:
But thou of temples old and affairs new,
Standeth alone, with none alike to thee, !"
It is well that strangers must travel long vistas
of Texas territory to reach Fort Worth, as in
this verdant springtime no one can look upon
her fields and plains without receiving high
estimate of the beauty and productiveDess OF
the state. Hundreds OF miles to the north we
entered your domain, and that vast extent has
been one vast picture OF verdant, hower-decked
beauty. rivaling in color the glory of Dante's
broken emeralds.
At the conclusion of his address the
cheers from his charmed audience rent
the building, and the friends of the
orator crowded about him, pronouncing
1t the greatest effort of his life. 1t was
magnificent address, delivered on an
appropriate occasion, drives another
rivet in the chain that binds the hearts
of Texas to those IF Colorado.
In ten minutes the stand had been de-
serted by all but the members of the
Elgin band, which ut once entered upon
its afternoon programme, delighting the
thousands who crowded around as soon
as the first note of the grand music
toated through the enchanted building.