Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-22

ed the whole course OF that herofa
life He walked with her to Code tenn?
pies, worshipplng at their holy affairs and
shr1nes, and whether In the senate hall
or IN the executive chair OF state be.
came the model Of the Christian hero.
Inat great man. whose name ID our
state aud In Tennessee and In the Union
Will not soon perish from the memories
OF men attributed his entire reformation
TO that cultured wife.
IN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE.
We can point TO our women Of let.
tiers Who have written history and sung
songs as sweet as the strain OF Eolian
hPrp or IN war times stirring as bu-
gle 10 the soldier In camp and field.
Their names are on my lips aud yours;
but we need not call them. 1n our
public schools and colleges, she has
forged to the front, aud to-day in lftera-
tur. and science, as of old IN patri-
otto sacrifices, she Is the main pillar
Of the state. / would not, In this
great presence of all the states, let
fall even one word that would reopen
any bitter memories Of the late war.
Never! Neyer But what am going
to say briefly Of Texas woinen--in the
unfortunate war between the states
is just az true no doubt Of our Northern
sisters Of the union ig that dreadful hour
of our history. But what Texan, here
OF ut home, does not recall how, with
singular courage and devotion aud for
titude, she stood by our states and our
homes when all the men were away at
Gettysburg and Bull Run and Chicku-
manga aud Pleasant Hill and Atlanta,
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande
How from palaces of wealth to desc
lated homes she uncomplainingy and
jOyfully welcomed the returning Confed-
crate soldier in rags and perjury to the
wealth Of their own great love! Poor
in all save yalor, but in that richer than
treasures of India
Since the war they have planted flow
ers and beautitied homes aud mnde our
land vocal with happy songs, and are
this blessed day the real "power behind
the throne, greater than the throne It.
self. IN The splendid march We are max
ing to the front. They are here today,
my COuntrymen, in their pride as In
their beauty When Sir Christopher
Wren, the architect of st. Paurs in
London, was asked .whar inscription
should be written on his memorial tablet
after death, he replied, "Circumspicc."
80 today | ask you to look at this state
building. II that noble, representative
woman. Mrs. Bennedette b. Tobin. the
president of Texas lady managers, needs
Il monument while living or dead, she
could. with her associates, point 10 This
Texas building with truthful aud pa
triOtic pride. She was their leader,
but TO her associates Of this lady's
board tgo read their namesl, rs TO her
self and the other women Of Texas,
belongs the credit aud honor of this
triumph. At their call the great rail.
way systems going into Texas-be Il
said TO their credit-gave her many
thousands of dollars and this house was
completed. ...........
RESOURCES OF THE STATE.
But we have 10 exhibit 1t Is our great
misfortune No state IN the Union could
have presented a grandpr exhibition of
the fruits of our soil IA quarter of mill
lion dollars in value from the orchard and
The vineyard from one county alone going
out to Chicago and other cities this year,;
its grains from the Panhandle: the best
woods, from yellow pine tsiNty-four billion
teet now standing as shown by the United
states. forestry burenu reportsl 10 mil
lions OF our best harlwOods of commerce;
We could point 10 ourselves US the second
wool'producing state in the Union; to our
cattle, now being graded to the best
blood,, and enough 10 feed nll nations; to
our Iron ores, the best save one ore bed
in all the world, and to our cotton. one.
fourth Of the whole American crop: to
the products of our mines aud mills aud
factories of cotton and wool and leather
and lumber and compromising some day
to rival Old and New England. TO these
exhibits Texas could have pointed with
pride 1t will not be forgotten. too. thnt
We are nearly as large ~ territory as
One-hnlt the states In the UniOni
When our city by the sea"-our own
eiton..-thanks to the American con
gyCss, shall have Il liarbor equal 10 New
ork twenty-five to thirty feet In depth;
when Sabine Pass shall have Twenty-Five
TO thirty feet Of water over its bars-as 1t
VII when Nelnsco, by the private en-
terprisc Of Chicago men, the Farwells
and Tnylors, shall have twenty-five 10
Thirty feet Of water overpits bars; when
Arkansas Pass shall have deep water
twenty-five TO thirty feet-as II will; with
completed canal and ship channel at
Nicarngua-then we will need no ex-
hiblts, You will come TO see us by rail
and river by sea and land, and you will,
hope, abide with us as brothers and
couutrymen forever
Then the vast grain trade of the states
west Of the Mississippi river by 1000
miles shorter transit will be enabled 10
reach the deep seas, where great ships
VA, await to- take. their grain and meats
10 Europe or to the distant Orient. thus
notwithstanding the trade Of continent,
while the Everlasting ocean, will offer
cheaper transit rates and reduce the
taxes of the producer and the consumer
alike, With the 000.000,0 900 Of the orient
entering a. competitive market for our
cotton and grain and other products
against Europe we shall have the world
for our customers and Chicago will be the
for the grain aud meat
stuffs of the continent. as Galveston will
slssippi states. -
We. are ouce more fraternal and re.
united people. The boys In blue and the
boys in gray. who offered their lives in
the unfortunate struggle, are at rest.
hallowed by the immortal value Of a Kin,
dred race. Let them sleep while their
strew flowers over their graves
with each returning spring. and on the
sacred spot where they sleep let uspledge
our countrymen, one and all, TO future
and everlasting devotion to the union Of
these states. In this fraternal spirit
Texas extends welcome and greeting 10
all her sister states of the Union.
A L A I'M