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

| durability the builders have hoped To attain
fame and earthly Immortality. But thasa en-.
| during structures of the past are not the NOM.
| ments Of d true civilization.
- The temples of India, the monuments OF the
Nile, the ruins OF Peru are but the footrrinte Of
bsrbaric power and AFFECT slavery. These relies
| OF the ages are eloquent only of mani ambition
ana myrlads OF slaves War and its triumpha
| has sprinkled the ages with statues monuments
! and triumphAi arches, but il has been Left for
this age to erect palaces that glorify no CONQUEST
To Texas and Fort Worth must he o;van IN.
honor OF building the first Palace that should
| epitomize and typlfy the entire produce and the
As our vision takes In the dazzling beauty az
this building, as we g asp the idea that called it
into life, we reSi5e that 1t 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. nc We lool,
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 10 journey through the great Lone
Star state. No home-seeker can resist the rich
ness and variety here displayed. Every taste
can be gratifed, every desire filed. TO the
stranger it is revelation. Gould the yondrous
possibilities OF your soil and climate be known
70 struggling thousands through the East and
North, there would start tide Of emigration ro-
ward happy Texas that would be like the moving
OF the nation.
Tex as, like Colorado, has often to contend
with the reputation OF its infancy 1t is no nm
usual thing to receive letters from the so-called
certers of culture in the East asking if IL
would be safe for peaceable citizen to visit Col
orado. Many Eastern people still think that a
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 and the bullet of the desperate to escape
30 with texas, the myths, traditions and exag-
geratlons, which Tor generation have been cur
rent about the reckless chara cter of the Texan
have been accepted as history.
1t has been but few years since thought of
as q where
around David in the wslderness, 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 cities, and
to note the prosperity that everywhere pre-
walls, 30 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
chains of debu. Nowhere is there distress, no.
where is there dlscoutent. No more can the
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 a
good land, land OF brooks of water, of fuunt-
aims and depths that spriug out of valleys and
hills, land OF wheat and barley and vines, fig
trees and pomegranates, a land of oil, olive and
honey, land wherein thou shalt eat bread
without scarceness, a land whose stones are iron
and out OF whose hills thou mayest dig BRASS
Embiematical of this Biblical picture OF comfort
and plenty is this marvellous Palace, which rivals
III beauty those magic palaces through which in
youth we wandered and dreamed with Aladdin
and his wonderful lamp. 1t is q creation that
could be built only in land Of profusi ion and in
a city of SURPRISING energy and enterprise and
under the leadership of man like Capt. Pad
dock Everywhere is his genius and ability as
an organizer manifest. Il is worthy OF Texas,
worthy of Fort Worth, worthy of Paddock; an
investment that Will bring dividends to st ate
and city. Like the chameleon, man takes color
from his surroundings.
Living in the midst of such expanse and vast
ness as touch es his life on all Sides the Texan
naturally reyels in large enterprises, in magnif-
cent palaces, in stupendous majorities. Amid
such environments, he cannot help thinking
that his state is giant among nations and b i'm
self Goliah among men.
Were Texan, my enthusiasm would equal
the extravaganza of Capt. Paddock, who. at q
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 setti ng
sun. unabssned by this expansive claim,
our friend paddock arose and invited |
his companions to come to country where they |
combining limits, and asked them to drink to-the |
toast: Here is to Texas, land bounded on |
the north by the aurora borealis, on the south |
by the procession of the equinoxes, on the east |
by primeval chaos and on the west by the day OF |
Ordinary figures do not grasp your |
possibilities. You might repeat the kingly |
extent of his dominion, said: HE placed his |
frontier where he pleased"
OF Texas products to-day and compare the acres |
that are CULTIVATED with tie vast extent of terri
tory that isnntouched og man or plow, we real
ize that it takes wider vision to take in her |
destiny than will cover the horizon of any other |
TIL.
For u6ate are we whose lines of life have
been cast in the West andin the last years of |
this century. IldeeI, ''pime's noblest offspring |
was the last -, ~ 49,.
/ believe thatssyery great movement Of men
and nations, that the building up of every new
state is a part Of grand scheme OF HIN who di-
reefs the course of stars, whose purpose IS the
ultimate happiness and redemption of man.
With DeTocGUeyiiIe. believe THAT the great +
Westward movement OF humanity has all of the
of a providential event. It is like a
ieluge of men rising unabatedly and moving
onward as by the hand of God"
The game supreme mind that guided the steps
Of the children Of ISRAEL has directed the career
Of this nation. 1t was no human power that
the Mayfowsr and the Pilgrims from
The peril OF storm and wilderness 1t was the
Almighty hand that led the armies OF the revo-
ution TO victory The same OmnipoteHt design
that made San Jacinto one of the epoch-maklng
battles OF mankind, and gave to Texas an endur
ng fame as the home of sublime courage aud
;partan heroes. A prophetic italian sang many
Years ago THAT all things of heavenly origin,
ike the sun, move Westward.
DR.. Price, an Englishman OF the last century
said he conl6 see in America rising empire,
extended over an immense continent, without
lobles aud without kings
JohnAdams looked into the future and wrote:
THE Eastern nations sink, their glory ends.
IN empire rises where the sun descends. In
md the West have place. This is culminat-
ng age; the westward migration OF nations has
UTILIZED its mission; the limit of the West has
,een reached; the circle has been completed;
,eyond 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
S no longer westward but southwark the march
II empire takes its way. 1t is intothe land of
dontezuma, into the mysterious lands Grim |
oned by the crimes of Cortez and Pizarro that |
he restless spirit of American enterprise and |
dventure must now seek field of activity.
To this new land OF conquest Texas holds the
oor and from the development OF these strug-
ling nations there will flow an Overwhelming
tream of golden tribute. Thus is fate weaving
radiant destiny, but to be worthy of great
uture your career must be guided by the wis
ON of patriarch, the courage of Houston
nd the patriotism of a Jackson. The danger
+ our age is speed. In many ways this genera
ion is fast. In the span OF a short life Texas
nd Colorado have gained that which 1t took
lew England 200 years to attain, both have
rom The most primitive won the highest condi-
ion of civilization.
The degrees of evolution have been the same,
ut with you the periods have been shorter but !
lore intense. The progress OF the past no
1nger satisfies. To accelerate the pace the fu-
pirit of extravasance and speculation, much of
be fairest domain has been burdened with debt.
very Texan shoulu bow his knee and give
hanks to the great statesman who laid such I
Use and broad foundation for empireship and
appiness-for making the homestead forever 7
zee from the curse of debt and mortgage. May I
our citizens, especially the farmers, maintain !
acredly the spirit OF these wise laws and avoid
mortgage as . pestiience. Laborer, deny your