Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
erous bosom, I han thee with the deep
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erous bosom, hail thee with the deep
est sentiments Of admiration aud regaru.
Zap lause.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
We live in an age of the marvellous, |
and the accomplishments OF our TINS
are as wonderful as the magic acnieVe-
ments of the tabled genii. 1t is related
in an Eastern legend that when dethu-
selah was 500 years old an angel ap-
peared to him aud said: ''Bulld thy
self q house ,, il being the custom of The
frat men to dwell under the waving
branches Of the primeval forest. chow
long shall I liver" asked the patriarch.
ssThy coming years will almost equal
those that have fed, ~ was the reply.
"Ah, then, for such q short time 1t IS
not worth whilo, and he continued to
live under his sycamore. The centuries
of Methuselah witnessed less than
decade of to-day, and we VINO i've III
this electric age are older, though our
years be not o score, than those Wno
dwelt in the days when there were giants.
History fails to furnish parallel 10
the growth and development OF the
United States of America. 1t is unique
IN the annals of time. How many CELL
turtles witnessed the growth of Egyptian
civilization? How many the Assyrlan'
the Chaideau, the Persian, the Greciah'
the Roman? And what were they, III
the matter OF benefiting mankind, TO Inc
modest republic OF the United Sthtesi
| What is an obilisk compared to an cleo
trio light? What was the court oil
Shalmauesar to the newspaper OF To-
day, which places you at your oreuha
! fast table in touch with the entire world!
han ifrI n
sculptures to the sewing machine, or the
! nnrenuts of Rome to the fast passenger
i trains that whirl one across continent
in n half dozen days. All these wonders
are the product of q century OF American
life. A century ago and the ontposts OF
! our civilization were on the Allegnenies.
| Less than a century since the state from
which hail and which now holds 3 .UoO.-
| 600 of free. enlightened people, was
terra incornito, O fraction of vast, uu-
known territory, the possession OF Tor
eigu mower. But q few years more than
| half q century ago this magnificent DO
main was q part of Mexico. populated by
savages. and as wild and uncultivated as
the recesses OF ''darkst Africa. A
penerution since, and the railroad had
not penetrated TO your orders.
To-day what do We see? great ma
| tim. populous, rich and powerful,
| snrending from ocean to ocean, covering
every waste place with the footsteps OF
| energetic manhood and taking from the
nourishing soil the sustenance OF Worlu.
| Across the wind-swept mountains, tne
roaring rivers and the grassy pralrles'
from the few Atlantic settlements to the
golden shores of the Parlic, moved the
train of civilization. dropping the seeos
of industry and progress on It's way anu
Iol as IL by magic sprang up little COM
munities of hardy settlers, when were
transformed Ill few years, almost i'm
perceptibly, into centers of civilization.
The Indian aud buffalo-haunted plains
of the past are now sprinkled with cities
and towns as the armament Is with stars.
The yrent American deserts are now the
home of happy husbandmen, and under
the touch OF the pioneer the wilderness
has been made to blossom rs the rose.
Coiucident with this progress has Deen
remarkable growth of Invention, the re-
suit or the application of American in-
genuity to the solution of practical proo-
lens. The expansion of the country
necessitated the railroad and the tele-
graph, and they came. The compre-
heuslve industry of our people demanded
improved machinery, and 1t appeared
Rapid navigation was required, anu tne
steamboat was substituted for the ran
and the slow sailing vessel. Schools ana
institutes of higher learning were RAISED
up mt word. The printing press scat
tered leaves of living words over every
household as the trees OF autumn shower
upon the shirering earth the crimson
drapery Of their branches. Ton erough
Drosnerity. prosperity brought enlisht-
| oil har hr0llrlt the
nractical results which have made III
within n fe y generations one of the first
II not the first, nation in the world. IN
compsrab,e America! What achieve
ments of the past, stained with the bloot
D of millions of human beings, can mattel
= thv wonders, wrought along the shining
. maths of peace, tremulous with the pull
| sntions of q prosperous and happy PEG
9 ME. The proves OF Tiglath-Pilesar,
Cyrus. of Alexander, of Hannibal,
0 Cnsur. of Charlemagne, Of Napoleon
let history recite as 1t may. 1t orough
o about desolation and slavery, and repre-
3 scented only the'development or ferocity
o But what shall be said OF that OF Frank
u I'm. of Stephenson, Of Morse, of Ediso
s and of Bell? which enslaved steam an
electricity only aud which had for its OBJ
ject the comfort. happiness and eleVa
: ton of mankind.
II What Is true of the United States
America is true of nearly every one
our Western commonwealth as state
: but it is especially and conspicuous
true of Texas The wonderful prosre:
of our country Is sublimated IN In
growth and development OF the Lon
v Star state. Within the ordinary span
: mans lifetime this soil was triou