Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-11

has brought fruit. Give deep water facilities
and the guaranteed integrity OF silver as the
money OF the people and then VIII every pro-
eral palace, receive an increase in value that
VIII 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 it does not
recall the memorable morning after San ia
cinto- Upon the ground lay the victorious but
wounded general, before him stood the defeated
and captured Mexican commander. The Next
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
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
for rations. - The Texan soldiers heard the words
and pressed around their leader and asked that
to them be given the corn, so that they might
plant it and call il Houston corn. Take it, said
Houston, divide 1t 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
10 remind you OF your own bravery Perhaps
some OF the corn that glistens in figures OF art,
beauty and sentiment around us csme from the
very kernels planted by the heroes Of San Ja-
cinto Happy Texas. where IN spring the way
ing corn Of a thousand fields tells the story of
prosperity and of heroic deeds. Happy Texas,
where in autumn the rustling Of the golden
blades and the grinding OF the mill sing the song
of plenty and of Texas valor.
This scene of profusion and magnihcence may
be SO common to the Texan asto excite no sem
timent other than pride, but to the heart of the
stranger who locks 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 vistss
of Texas territory to reach Fort Worth, as in
this yerdant 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 ohe vast picture Of Yerdant, hower-decked
beauty, rivaling in color the glory of Dante's
broke h emeralds.
AT the conclusion of his address the
cheers from his charmed audience rent
the building, apd the friends Of the
orator crowded about. hIm, pronouncing
1t the greatest effort of ,his life. 1t was
a 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 at once entered upon
its afternoon programme, delighting the
thousands who crowded around as soon
as the first note of the grand music
f1oated through the enchanted building.