Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-25

innocent iuces your Hlihu ~ pe.,ei"'s
centuries for each history and ike a
flash follows 40 hack to the mother.love
and you know that the FIRST words or
signs ever understood by the little ones
wern those OF ondearment, now Tor
them unseen or unheard, but ever sweet
10 memory like the notes Of some old
melody All Texans there is couin-
torpart Of that to-day with ~ at the
other extreme OF life. Neither food
nor raiment can b3 given 10 survivor
Of tho Alan and TO but few from Goliad,
but there apa vet less than one hundred
Of those whom we all love 10 hear tell
how they remembered the Alamo and
Goliad al San Jacinto. Did they not
think nearly sixty years ago when they
baptized with thor blood
THE INFANT
that may be she would be Us true to
them ia their old age ms they had been
TO her In infancy? eau they feel that
Texas has been the mother to them she
should have been? Or Is she deads
And must the sweet memory Of their
youth como 10 them only like She notes
n some old melody? II the spirit Of
thirty-six be dead, then let ihem toll
liberty's bell; let them muillo the drum
and drape with Grape the fife that play
cd Come TO tho Bower, at San Jacinto,
and let them send back 10 the furnace
the Irwin Sisters whose thunder and
lightning sent such death and dismny
into the ranks Of the Mexican horde Of
San Jacinto. II when the hour comes
that you, In your sovereign right raise
your sceptrc, n II be- MOTOR me TO enter,
but, for another, and pass out Of your
memory forever, then so let II be, but
in the name OF Texas, living or dead, |
ask you TO demand OF the reproscntat-
ives 10 whom you give the power, 10
sees that these old men and women mny
puss their declining years IN case If not
In luxury; that as the hours OF thought
and OF labor come and go and the hours
Of slumbar follow aitor they may lay
their silvory hoads TO rest without an
earthly caro- for the morrow.
ELABORATION.
When q man says that he can't undor-
stand why old Texans built their
houses so far from each other. He Is
telling the truth because he has 10 be
born and bred that way. I have lived
the best years Of my life out OF hearing
Of any other house, Just among farmers
and will 20 further II tho town gets
too close. II the fathers Of Texas had
SETTLED In towns insteud OF whersyor
they found good arabic and pasture
lands thore wouldn't be many people
west Of the Ncches by this time But
we know that II takes people TO make
n country and heap Of them TO mako
Il big ono, and that's what we want ~
make Texas. don't suppose there Is
one Of us here today who would deny
our state. II we were travelling In some
other state and were 10 be asked our
homo We would proudly answer
''rcxas.h But, proud Of what? OF her
past history as q republic and as u now
BtateY Those arc tho laurelB only of the
men and women who earned them
Then proud OF her PRESENT. You
know that Tor any prosperity that TeXaa
has enjoyed during her present peace
sho is Indebted TO the unsellsh patriot.
ism Of
40 PUBLIC MAN
Of to-day, II Is but the unexhausted
strength Of her youth. Then proud Of
her future, perhapsY Ali the civilized
world knows that she has n great dies.
tiny. Texans Of to-day, you could az
root that destiny just as well as TO be-
NNNotH lhhN uuNS 70 hulue lNLufe kcNolA-
tl2n, but you can only do IL BY crushing
Nith yDir ni ~. the slaVesyo OF party
PIuyquluo' ~ mas long Deem as East
WI eAus w, no goes lne Stato'' ~
san ne 'ir ~ sAiu before the next
o l,'ns ~ {uu put STATE ABOVE party,
In fi,'e 20 gA%S Roes so Hoes lhe
glion' ~ ID new york; large ana
ugNulul VOC IN tne electoral college
WIN Blse7 ngr lho, prestige as
Pi,Vt'ul osJ,g' oeo Us the nalurhl com
es,t9r ~ AuN.'s ~ o3ulUleroe az Won ns
" p's.lua, uioleAd OF Hn any IN oither.
~ ~ WI WV 70 ny "nether ours shall
~ PROVING, ny, or u peer OF the Empire
il 'i CVi7.i'uIlYe agu'lmeht una
.-tl,i"vlon my tho carry commence
mem ui eoryi{ needed internal I'M
Ho,e.teuta WIZ Nl once prlhg indWtrl.
w ln'i , WIN money To pay good
Ri.ea lur MONIES va leAasi ana tho
selte ""ul9 Houh nave thousands OF fac
49, 49, d iuiiiol, e'luls ana railways
NJ, w, Moula ne seaport and fort
as vac NOUN OF every river along our
yTyuaH Ahl lhe immense trade which
-. - ~ VIZ , nlqsl,y o.her states would
tnRVe win iorelgh countries would pass
S1' ~, w.
~aNVr ~ USES
n, S -..l th9 progress which
4 o4.a haa ,hhue IN late years With that
:" ~. may StngI s'atea ! always think Of
w. Wy ~ uathey VINO got TOO proud for
inc plantation and rented him n iAutph