Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25


Your power TO hasten the day when for
every school in Texas there will be eN-
pended money enough TO make that school
efficient. Do this, sir, and we stand ready
to forgive every epithet ycg have heaped
upon US. and every reproach and insinuatiou
you have made against US will be forgotten
Do this, sir, and you Will go down 10 pos
terity blessed with the prayers of grateful
people, and YOU will receive the rich reward
that righteous God gives TO every editor
that does his duty
There are many other doctrines to which
the Texas teacher cheerfully subscribes,
but the short limits of this paper will not
permit even their enumeration.
Lee me close, as began, by saying that
we are performing our work patiently and
hopefully. We believe that in the end this
great American nation, through the pro
cesSeS of right education, will enjoy 4 social
and political life that will be pleasure 10
its citizens and model and an inspiration
to those of other lands. Like the prophecy
in Hawthornes Great Stone Face this
prophecy may be long in its revcalment. but
we are confident it will come TO pass.
The poet truly sings:
IT'S weary watching waveon wave
And yet the tide heaves onward;
We build like corals grave on grave,
To pave pathway sunward.
We are beaten back in many fray,
And where the van guard rests to-day
The rear Will camp tomorrow.
W. ". Barnett, secretary of the board of
managers of the state reading circle, made
his report, in which it appeared that the
membership of the circle in the state
amounts to 1000. The report was adopted
and ordered printed
The president then introduced Mr.. T. J.
Hurley of Fort Worth. president of the
Texas Worlds fair exhibit association, who
came to lay before the teachers the plan
adopted for organizing Texas exhibit at
the Columbian fair. Mr.. Hurley spoke in
substance as follows:
TEXAS AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
Hon. T. ]. Hurley of Fort Worth, the
president of the Texas Worlds fair exhibit
association, addressed the convention upon
the subject of Texas representation at the
Chicago Worlds fair. He delivered prac-
teal vet eloquent and patriotic address,
touching upon the greatness of Texas and
the importance of this greatness being
properly exhibited before the countless
millions who would flock TO Chicago during
the great exposition
What he said may be summarized as fol-
lows: He referred first TO the magnitude
of the great international exposition. which
for wondrous completeness of exhibits of
everything which the senses can compre-
bend would, in point of grandeur and
breadth of scope, surpass anything hereto
fore conceived by the mind of man, COM
pared with which all previous exhibits that
the world had ever witnessed would be but
of minor importance. He said that the total
cost of the exposition would reach the CO.
lassal sum of S5O.OOO,0OO, and that
the estimated attendance would reach
40,000,000 people, hence the great
state of Texas must participate in this
meeting of the representatives of all ma
lions and 60 down to posterity as the one
great commonwealth in the Union, holding
the place of honor among the nations of the
world by virtue of the Exhibition made by
her people, who, regardless of political af-
filiation, religious creed, nationality or
color, had taken up the work which the
state, by legislative enactment, could not
perform, and through her future citizens,
THE YOUTHS OF TEXAS
she proposed to astonish the world by the
magnifcerce of her exhibit, the progress
and patriotic spirit of the school children Of
Texas would do the work that the state, as
an organic body, was prevented from
doing by an inhibitory provision
of her constitution. 1t is all well
enough to talk of cheap land and glorious
climate, but the immigrant or mechanic
worth having will not come into state
unless he be assured of churches and
schools, where his family may worship and
his children be educated. In this particu-
lar Texas is pre-emInently well equipped,
her educational resources being backed
with guarantee for all time to come by the
N magnificent school fund, approximating
800, coo, 900.
Had it not been for constitutional prohi-
bition, the appropriation from this state
would have been in keeping with her vast
territory and unbounded resources; because
it is the richest state in the Union, the free
est from debt and in better condition to
make a magnificent display than any six
other states combined The people of
Texas realizing this, and the states ina
bility to assist in the work, arranged
to send delegates to state conven-
ton to be held at Fort Worth to
take some action in this matter. This con-
vention was held and largely attended by
earnest, distinguished citizens from all
parts of the state, also by some of the lead
came at their own expense and the sacrifice
of their time to assist Texas in determining
upon the best plan for an exhibition worthy
of the largest state in the Union. As Ike
Texas convention was the only state con-
vention they had ever attended the cornpli-
ment to our commonwealth is significant.
The Texas convention was organized and
adopted a resolution which declared that
Texas must be represented at the Worlds
Columbian exposition, and provided for An
association to raise the necessary funds for
the construction and maintenance of
Texas state building on the Worlds fair
grounds in the city of Chicago in which
shall be displayed such products and re-
sources of the state as may be prepared for
exhibition by the various counties.
This convention also created seven
directors who subsequently appointed an
advisory directory of one member from
each senatorial district in the state and
elected the following officers:
President, Thomas j. Hurley of Fort
Worth.
First vice-president, C. B. Andrews of
San Antonio.
Second vice president, Joseph S. Rice of
Hyatt
Treasurer W. J. Watt. president Prov
ident national bank of Waco who gives
500 600 bond.
Secretary Dudley D. Bryan Of Gal
weston.
Assistant Secretary L A. Stein of San
Antonio, and the following well-known
gentlemen as the executive committee:
Col. R. B. Parrett of Waco, Mayor w. c.
Conner Of Dallas, Hon. J. n. Browning of
the Panhandle, and Hon. John L. Dickin-
son Of Austin on location of building at
Chicago.
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.
As a plan of organization, communlca-
lions have been addressed to every county