The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-04
GOV. HOCG AT HOME.
Advises People to Secure
Homes and Cultivate In
dopondonC0.

speech Of Gov. Hogg delivered here
yesterday before the Teachers in.
stitute of Smith county created
comment. The governors ideas for
the upbuilding of good school in
each community were based on the
grounds that you must have the
community. And this he said could
be had only by creating com nu-
nifty of farms, not plantations; of
home owners, not tenants. He
said that in Texas each man should
own home. This, he said, need not
contain hundreds of acres. A
small home was better than no
home; perhaps it is the best home.
He appealed to land owners present
TO encourage their renters to buy
homes and to help them IN their eff
forts to pay for them. He advised
them not to buy 800 or 400 acres on
time, for no man can pay for it;
and that no one wanting home
thought he needed so much land or
could ever pay for it.
"But,' said be, "selI him twenty.
five or fifty acres and he can pay
for that. He will build home on
it and beautify it. And as good
and happy homes spring up around
you your other land will become
more desirable and valuable. Good
and numerous homes will bring
good schools, and good schools, no
matter under what system, will
bring the right kind Of people. Pur-
sus this course and your schools
will flourish, and't people will be-
come contented, prosperous and
happy. Anarchy and communism
cannot live in community, county
or state where each man owns his
home A tenantry will not defend
a landlords castle or his holdings,
but each American will defend his
own home. Friends and neighbors,
we need a campaign on this line.
We want to educate the people on
this line; and if | return to live
among you want to help you spend
one year, year when there is no
politics, in an effort to make our
people think about these things and
act on them. In politics we are
advanced enough. In farming and
in home-getting we are too back
ward. We have politicians and
office holders enough; bat our
farmers and home. holders are far
too few.
"Wh men come back here and eat
your vegetables and fruits and
drink your good, pure water, get
too full to think. You should be
happy and prosperous people. Here
every home has good garden in us
back yard, filled with the best kinds
of vegetables; and in the front yard
you can find the sweetest tlowers
and the most delicious fruits.
Friends, all you need is to do right.
Move your corn crib on your own
premises and have your smokehouse
in your own back yard. The
man who raises cotton with which
to buy ST. Louis bacon and
Kansas corn is behind the procession,
if not fool. Make the people
think about these things. Ninety
per cent of the people don't think.
They initiate. am not slandering
them. A fellow plows with one
horse and a bull tongue because his
father did. You make that man
think and he will use a gang plow
and two or four horses in place of
his bull.tongue and his one horse.
So man rents because his father
rented, and lives in renters cabin
because his father died in one. This
thing should be changed, and the
people will change it whenever you
make them think about it and see il
as it is"
Inc governor said he had not yet
decided that he would or would not
return'hPre to, live; but that wherever
ne went the people of Tyler and
Smith county would be very near to
his heart That in public life he
had always tried to be their lrue
and faithful friend and servant, and
that when he retired from nuhlic